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    ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS 'WIDELY RECOGNIZED' IN ISRAEL

    http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2012/08/30/armenian-genocide-is-widely-recognized-in-israel/
    News | August 30, 2012 10:07 am

    Armenian Genocide Is 'Widely Recognized' in Israel YEREVAN (RFE/RL)
    - The 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman
    Turkey are widely recognized as a genocide in Israel, an Israeli
    cabinet minister said after visiting the Armenian Genocide memorial
    here on Friday, August 24.

    Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein
    also drew parallels between the Jewish Holocaust and the World War
    I-era slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians, which many historians
    consider the first genocide of the 20th century.

    "True, there is no state law [in Israel rec- ognizing the Genocide,]"
    Edelstein said. "But I think that in Israel, in view of ... our common
    history and some similar elements and moments, you will hardly find
    people who will deny the Genocide, who will say, like we unfortunately
    hear, that all this is fabrications and lies."

    "So I think that unfortunately - I stress, unfortunately - in this
    area our peoples have quite a lot in common, quite a lot for mutual
    understanding," he said.

    Citing the strategic character of Israel's relationship with Turkey,
    successive Israeli governments have resisted domestic calls

    for Armenian Genocide recognition. An Israeli Foreign Ministry official
    reaffirmed this stance during landmark hearings on the issue that
    were organized by an Israeli parliament committee last December.

    Support for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide appears to have
    grown within the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, and the government
    since 2010. Some observers link that to Israel's worsened relations
    with Turkey, which vehemently denies the Genocide.

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