ArmInfo.The annihilation of the Armenian people is a plan said Abbas Juma, an international journalist covering events in the Middle East.
During an online discussion: "The situation in the Gaza Strip and possible consequences for the Middle East," organized at the expert platform of the Analytical Center for Strategic Studies and Initiatives (ACSIS), Juma responded to ArmInfo's question whether the escalation of the situation around the Gaza Strip could somehow be delayed those negative processes that are taking place around Armenia today, taking into account the fact that Israel is one of Azerbaijan's key arms partners in the aggression against Artsakh, Juma expressed the conviction that RA is now not safe, and it is time for it to stop living cautiously.
"In general, I think that Armenia is not safe now. It's time for the Armenian people to abandon the position of constantly looking around: can this affect us, but maybe Russia will help us, and what if something happened there, and they will forget us. They will not forget. The destruction of the Armenian people is a concrete plan. And those who are developing it may switch for a while, but they will definitely return to it," the expert noted.
According to him, the liquidation of Armenians physically and spiritually is what Azerbaijan, Turkey and Israel need. Juma believes that, in principle, the existence of Armenians is a threat to them. "Even Armenians who are not armed, but who remember who they are, and how it all began, bearers of the code, bearers of history are no longer needed. This greatly interferes with their myth, on which aggression, and aggressive policy, the unification of Turkic peoples and countries are based. So ", it turned out that small Armenia, a small people, weakened, mired in civil strife, in a political and economic crisis, nevertheless poses an existential threat to the existence of this pan-Turkic myth, on which the aggressive occupation policy is based," Juma is convinced.
In this vein, he urged not to experience illusion, once again emphasizing that the destruction of Armenians, the Armenian factor, is a concrete plan, and so far everything is going according to plan.
In turn, APRI Armenia researcher, scientific director of the Armenian Research Foundation Sergey Melkonyan stated that the memory in the Middle East, of which Armenia is a part, is quite long.
"The same so-called Zangezur corridor was not invented by Azerbaijan. This is a project of Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century. And no one abandoned their plans," Melkonyan noted, admitting that the processes around the Gaza Strip will certainly affect Armenia.
Melkonyan believes that in the current realities, Armenia at a minimum must evacuate all Armenians living in Israel, which, for example, it did not do when the war began in Ukraine.
"Armenia may think about maintaining its religious presence in Jerusalem: putting this issue on the agenda, and not selling off its already diminishing property," the expert said, adding that the processes around the Gaza Strip will directly affect Armenia, with the possible opening of a new front (in the direction Iran - ed.).
He agreed that Azerbaijan was temporarily deprived of its strategic weapons ally. At the same time, the expert stated that literally on October 13, regular flights of cargo planes with weapons delivered from Israel to Azerbaijan were recorded. Melkonyan believes that all this suggests that it depends on the type of weapons that the AR needs. "Will they continue to pump Azerbaijan with weapons? Of course they will! Now, they will pump Azerbaijan with weapons to confront Iran," he concluded.