Urges Israeli Government to Also Formally Recognize the Crime
JERUSALEM, Israel (A.W.)—Israel’s Knesset’s (Parliament) Education, Culture, and Sports Committee announced on Aug. 1 that it recognized the Armenian Genocide and urged the government to formally acknowledge the crime as such.
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It would be nice if the parliament of israel would finally recognise the Armenian Genocide, however, there are motives in israel’s parliament and we all know why they continually FAIL to recognise the Armenian Genocide. Let us also NOT FORGET that they supply arms and technical support worth billions of dollars and it is these billions of dollars that is creating massive problems for the Armenians in Nagorna Karabah – no wonder.
I heartily commend the Israeli Knesset’s Education, Culture, and Sports Committee for acknowledging the first genocide of the twentieth century. I’m sure that it took much courage for the committee to make this statement in light of powerful military/economic forces in Israel that wish to continue to trade with and profit from the genocide-denying governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Oil from and arms sales to Azerbaijan and free Israeli Air Force training within air space over Turkey sadly trump the current Israeli government’s moral values. Had the Ottoman Turks massacred 1.5 million Jews instead of 1.5 million Armenian civilians, I wonder whether Israel would take the same position in it’s stance against recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
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