Author: Peter Lyukimson, Israel, exclusively for VK
From February 25, the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv will hold an
exhibition "Justice for Khojaly" dedicated to the mass murder of the
people of this town of Azerbaijan by Armenian militants on February
26, 1992.
The Diaspora Museum is one of the largest and most famous
museums in Israel and, at the same time, the country's leading
research center for the study of Jewish history in the Diaspora.
"We have been trying to convey to the Israeli public the truth about
the Khojaly tragedy and about the Karabakh conflict as a whole, but
the exhibition at the Diaspora Museum is, of course, a new level,"
says CEO of the International Association "Azerbaijan-Israel "(" Aziz
") Lev Spivak. "It is a museum and research center of international
importance, the activity of which always has wide coverage in the
Israeli media and attracts wide attention. I am convinced that this
exhibition will not go unnoticed by Israelis. We, for our part, will
do everything possible."
The photograph exhibition will be accompanied by an evening for the victims of
the Khojaly tragedy, which, as expected, will be attended by the Chairman
"Aziz", the former Knesset member Alex Miller, a former Israeli deputy
defense minister and longtime friend of Azerbaijan, Ephraim Sneh, and
a number of current ministers and Knesset members.
An Azerbaijani delegation, which will arrive at the opening of the
exhibition, is currently being formed, but we already know that it
will include a number of deputies of the Milli Majlis (the Azerbaijani
parliament) and prominent public figures of the country.
According to rumours circulating in Israel, the Armenian community in
the country will hold a protest near or at the museum. However, it seems the
organizers are not worrying about this.
"We are ready for such action, and we believe that in the end it will
only benefit business," Lev Spivak says. "We are ready to
discuss it and say to our opponents: you protest? You insist that the
claims about the Khojaly tragedy are "lies of Azerbaijan?" Well,
let's hold a conference at Tel Aviv University, invite historians,
journalists, witnesses of the tragedy and talk."
