Representative of Armenian Diaspora Met Israeli President

• 04.27.2015, 09:30
•  Near East

On Sunday representatives of the Armenian Diaspora met with Israel's President Reuven Rivlin at his Jerusalem residence to express disappointment over the fact that the country's authorities refer to the 1915 Genocide of Armenians as "mass killing", Sputnik News reports.

Israeli Presidential press service after the visit issued a rather strange statement noting that that Israeli authorities are not eager to brand any particular country as responsible for the "Armenian tragedy," but are not ignoring the facts.

According to the same statement, Israel's president considers it important to meet with representatives of the Armenian Diaspora, who critiqued him for not calling the 1915 massacre, by the Ottoman government, Genocide.

The refusal of  the President of the country that experienced Holocaust to call massacres of the Armenian people in 20^th century Genocide is beyond any moral logic. Raphael Lemkin a Polish Lawyer of Jewish origin was the first to call the massacres of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks Genocide.