Israeli Knesset Rejects Armenian Genocide

[Armenian Bishop]

Israeli Knesset Rejects Bill Recognizing the Armenian Genocide
Published by Armenian Weekly on 14 February, 2018.

https://armenianweekly.com/2018/02/1...nian-genocide/

JERUSALEM (A.W.)—The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) rejected a bill on Wednesday, which would have recognized the Armenian Genocide. Sponsored by Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid, the bill was rejected in a preliminary vote.

“There is no reason that the Knesset, which represents a nation that went through the Holocaust, shouldn’t recognize the Armenian Genocide and have a remembrance day for it,” Lapid was quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying.

“The Israeli leadership diminishes itself by so transparently treating genocide remembrance as a commodity to be bartered with [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan,” said Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian, regarding the vote.

Armenian Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian met with Kneset Speaker Yuli Edelstein last November, during Nalbandian’s official visit to Israel. At the meeting, the two exchanged views on a number of urgent regional issues, including the importance of the Israeli Parliament’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

During the talks, Edelstein had noted that his point of view about the importance of recognition is “well-known” and that he has expressed it many times publically. In July 2015, during a committee meeting, Edelstein had said the Knesset “must do the moral thing” and recognize the Armenian Genocide.

“I visited one of the Armenian memorial sites and it is very hard to ignore what I saw there,” Edelstein had recounted at the time, according to the Jerusalem Post. “I expect that I and the Knesset behave appropriately so that we can make decisions according to the moral standards of a democratic state.”

[wvwvw]

Israel is demanding criminalization of holocaust denial but denies the Armenian genocide, can you see the irony in this.

Maybe Armenia should take back its recognition of the Jewish holocaust publish a book or two about how it never happened.

[SkyBurn]

Absolutely despicable. Too scared of Turkey like so many other pussy countries.

Jews should stand in solidarity with the Armenians. I realise it's more complex when it's nation states involved as opposed to just ethnic groups, but still.

[Acquisit0r]

Armenia is considerably less relevant than relations with Turkey. Its quite simple.. in fact Armenia represents literally nothing in this world other than poor quality brandy and migrants which flee it.

[Egyptian]

Armenia is considerably less relevant than relations with Turkey. Its quite simple.. in fact Armenia represents literally nothing in this world other than poor quality brandy and migrants which flee it.

^^^

a slave mentality.

[wvwvw]

Armenia is considerably less relevant than relations with Turkey. Its quite simple.. in fact Armenia represents literally nothing in this world other than poor quality brandy and migrants which flee it.

Surrounded by Muslim hostile countries that are much populous like Turkey who’s 16-year trade embargo against Armenia was one of the longest such sanctions in the world.

[Sp_loa]

Absolutely despicable. Too scared of Turkey like so many other pussy countries.

Jews should stand in solidarity with the Armenians. I realise it's more complex when it's nation states involved as opposed to just ethnic groups, but still.

Israeli Government is fucked up! no one like them here! Jews are standing with the Armenians believe me!

[Acquisit0r]

Surrounded by Muslim hostile countries that are much populous like Turkey who’s 16-year trade embargo against Armenia was one of the longest such sanctions in the world.

It doesnt matter. What matters is that recognizing it produces no real benefits. Most European countries wont recognize it either.

Armenians, pretty much like some jews are whiners, simply because no currently living Armenian is a victim of the genocide. Same goes for Israel, holocost survivors are nearly extinct.

[Skjaldemjøden]

They fear repercussions from Turkey. In 2003 when an Armenian nurse was chosen to light a torch at the Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem the Turkish embassy went amok.

[Yaglakar]

Term genocide is used too loosely. Its use and application should be reconsidered. Armenian Genocide is not Holocaust. It is a story of the clash between rising Turkish and Armenian nationalisms. Armenians were already a minority in early 20th century, so it ended the way it did.