A parliamentary committee has examined the possibility of a national day of remembrance, after the crisis between France and Turkey a few days ago
An Israeli parliamentary committee discussed today, for the first time in a public session, the opportunity to officially recognize the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the territories of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916 as a genocide. The debate took place within the Committee of the Knesset (Israel's unicameral parliament of the state) for education and culture, and concerned the possibility of dedicating a day of national commemoration of the event. The committee has not reached a decision and has postponed the discussion until a later date.
Any recognition of the Armenian genocide by the Israeli authorities would be another blow to the already deteriorated relations between Israel and Turkey, as pointed out by an official of the Israeli Foreign Ministry who attended the discussion. On 22 December, the French National Assembly approved a law (which must now pass the Senate, where similar initiatives have already been shot down several times) that criminalizes those who deny or diminish the Armenian genocide, sparking a furore and military retaliation , diplomatic and trade by Turkey.
Several Israeli MPs have supported the initiative, specifically linking the Armenian genocide than the Jewish population during the Second World War. A parliamentary left-wing party Meretz, reports Haaretz , said that "Israel has a moral obligation and historical" to "recognize the genocide of the Armenian people", and to ensure that the event is taught in schools. Until now, the subject had been treated only in non-public sessions of the Committee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence, where the proposal had been rejected several times. Israel is not now among the twenty countries (including Italy) officially recognizing the killing of Armenians as genocide of 1915-1916..... more
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