2026-05-30 Shame
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About 1 million people died in the Armenian genocide. Just skimming
up and down that Wikipedia page is revolting. What an incredible
shame.

And look at that:

> According to historian Stefan Ihrig, in Germany, the Nazis viewed
> post-1923 Turkey as a post-genocidal paradise and, "incorporated the
> Armenian genocide, its 'lessons', tactics, and 'benefits', into
> their own worldview".

About 6 million people died in the Holocaust. When I was in school,
our class was shown a movie about it all. This was in the late
eighties. Nobody knew about content warnings. And so, without
preparation, without introduction, I remember suddenly seeing those
bulldozers shovelling mountains of dead people. What an incredible
shame.

No wonder people still remember. Things have calmed down a lot in
recent decades but I still remember how it was considered to be a
strange thing to be friends with Germans. Sure, it was just prejudice.
But it was palpable.

Switzerland tried to be "neutral". Germany is too strong, they said!
Also some people made a lot of money. And we're still having
controversies about art collections being based on Raubkunst -- the
art Jews had to sell under pressure from the Nazis. It's still
happening, here in Zürich, Switzerland.

And remember, there's a genocide happening right now! It has been
ongoing for nearly three years, televised, documented, before our
eyes. What an incredible shame.

What an incredible shame for all our politicians who could not resist
the lure of trade, who kept fearing other people in power.

What an incredible shame for all our organisers of sports events and
music events who could not find their moral bones when they started
looking, preferring to just play along.

What a shame for our descendants, our children, to be related to us,
to have inherited such a shameful mess that we as a society were
unable to resolve with courage and integrity.

What an incredible shame, for all of us.

#Israel #Palestine #Armenia #Genocide