Knesset Speaker Urged to Recognize Armenian Genocide

• 01.20.2017, 16:33
•  Near East,  World,  Armenia

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Knesset (Parliament of Israel) Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Tuesday urged Israel to recognize the Armenian genocide, the Times of Israel reports.

"We must not ignore, belittle or deny this terrible genocide," Edelstein declared as the Knesset marked the 1915 mass killing. "We must disconnect the current interests, bound to this time and place, and the difficult past, of which this dark chapter is a part."

"Let us not remain indifferent, even belatedly, to the suffering of the Armenians," Edelstein continued. "Preserving the memory of the Armenian genocide is important for everyone as human beings, as those who have moral responsibility and who strive constantly to improve and fix the world and society."