Israel is considering the recognition of Armenian genocide

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli parliamentary panel discussed on Monday morning to recognize the Armenian genocide, a move expected to lead to the aggravation of tension in relations with Turkey.

The Knesset Education Committee to discuss the proposal as a twenty-fourth of April, which began killing Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, on the anniversary of "massacre of the Armenian people."

During the discussion on the "recognition of the Armenian genocide of the Jewish people" as defined by the Commission in a statement, he stressed jurists, historians and members of the Armenian community's commitment to Israel's moral to officially recognize the Armenian tragedy Kabadh. However, the Commission has not issued any decision or announcement and will meet again to discuss the topic in the future.

This is the first time that a similar debate was opened to the media and the people. The Knesset rejected a similar proposal in 2007, when relations between Israel and Turkey are good.

But relations have entered a major crisis last year, when Israeli forces killed nine Turks in an attack on a Turkish ship in the fleet carrying humanitarian aid on the way to the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade imposed on it.

Turkey expelled last October the Israeli ambassador and canceled military ties, while Israel last week canceled a contract for the sale of air monitoring equipment to Ankara dates back to 2008.

He said Alex MillerAlex Miller, Chairman of the Committee of the Party, the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu in the opening session that the discussion will focus on aspects of "educational and academic" of the subject Ktrivh appropriate to teach in schools, universities, and not a diplomatic and security aspects.

He also stressed the Knesset Speaker Rivlin Ravin that the issue is not political.

Rivlin said the Committee at the beginning of the debate that "this issue was not raised in the Knesset because something happened between Israel and Turkey, not because we want to exploit the political situation to settle accounts."

However, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in the discussion warned of the repercussions of any Israeli move to recognize the Armenian genocide on the already strained relations with Turkey.

And Irit Lillian "Our relationship with them very fragile today and paid for over the red line is not sound," adding that "the recognition of similar at this stage could have serious repercussions."

The MP said Arieh Eldad of the right National Union party, which put forward the bill with Rep. Zahava Gal?n of the leftist Meretz Party, "in the past was a mistake to raise issue because our relations with Turkey were good and now is wrong because the bad relations with them, when will come the right time?".

Bakhurji MK Zahava Gal?n that changes in the diplomatic arena may mean that the project could get the support of this time. Gal?n said that Israel has "a moral and historical obligation" to recognize the genocide and a half million Armenians, "especially since we are still fighting against Holocaust denial." It confirmed that "the Israeli educational system can not silence the Armenian genocide."

Georgette Avakian of the Armenian National Committee in Jerusalem, said they were satisfied with reservations on the outcome of the meeting.

Avakian said, told AFP: "There is progress in the Educational Committee has dealt with him (...) but I was disappointed they did not reach any result, and they postponed it" for further discussions.

The massacres and the displacement of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1917 led to the fall of more than 1.5 million people killed by Armenians and between 250 thousand and 500 thousand as Turkey Paris ,Ottawa and the European Parliament,accknowledged especially the Armenian genocide.

In France, the National Assembly Thursday approved a bill criminalizing the denial of any genocide, including the Armenian genocide, prompting Turkey to the suspension of political and military cooperation with Paris.

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