Knesset Education Committee To Discuss Armenian Genocide

KNESSET EDUCATION COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Tert.am
26.12.11

Knesset members of radically different political orientations will
seek this week to sway the Knesset Education Committee to promote
Israeli recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud), MK Arye Eldad (National Union)
and MK Zehava Galon (Meretz) will argue for a special annual Armenian
memorial day in Israel, says an editorial in The Jerusalem Post.

“Erdogan’s ruffian demeanor isn’t Israel-specific. There’s no plausible
reason not to answer his hectoring defamations with incontrovertible
historical truths. Why, for starters, not quit our unsavory habit of
resisting Knesset resolutions on Turkey’s infamous atrocities against
the Armenians? We could elaborate on Turkey’s first Armenian massacre
of 1890 (100,000-200,000 dead); Turkey’s subsequent mega-massacres
of 1915 in which over a million Armenians perished in a series
of bloodbaths and forced marches of uprooted civilians in Syria’s
direction; the WWI slaughter of tens of thousands of Assyrians in
Turkey’s southeast; the ethnic cleansing, aerial bombardments and
other operations that cost Kurds untold thousands of lives throughout
the 20th century and beyond and still deny them the sovereignty they
deserve; and finally, the 1974 invasion and continued occupation of
northern Cyprus (which fails to bother the international community),”
the article says.

The Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun
(ARF-D) reports that Hay Dat committee members are expected to attend
the discussions.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress