As an Israeli page that is supporting Armenia since the beginning of Artsakh Blockade, we may believe that Israel should punish Azerbaijan. But that's just our view. (1)
“Peace” in Azerbaijani terms: first, 400,000 Armenians forcibly displaced from Soviet Azerbaijan (by 1991), then 120,000 Armenians ethnically cleansed from Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh (2023)… & now the time to conquer Armenia by labelling it “Western Azerbaijan” & rewriting history
The Armenian PM, @NikolPashinyan, seems convinced that in order to preserve Armenia's broader sovereignty it's OK to be a mouthpiece of Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Wilful naivety though it is, pragmatism it is not! Nicol Pashinyan's short memory is "admirable". Subconsciously (or consciously) he is ignoring who the Turk is.
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turkey 🇹🇷 just got humiliated twice on the world stage in the space of two weeks
1. Got absolutely trashed and Eliminated at the World Cup
2. Israel 🇮🇱 recognized the Armenian Genocide committed by the savage turks
Humbled and proud to serve as Israel’s Ambassador to Armenia at this historic moment. The Government’s unanimous approval to recognize the Armenian Genocide is a milestone for truth and justice. Deep appreciation to @IsraeliPM and @gidonsaar for their leadership and vision.🇦🇲🇮🇱
A Jewish State Cannot Stop at Armenia
Israel recognized the Armenian Genocide. Now it must name the Assyrian and Greek genocides, including Pontus, and the whole thirty-year crime.
I welcome my government’s decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
It is right. It is moral. It is Israeli.
It is also nearly eight decades late. The Jewish state should have spoken this truth in its first days, before diplomatic calculation taught Jerusalem to ask permission from the heirs of denial.
But recognition that stops at Armenia remains incomplete.
The Armenian Genocide was not an isolated tragedy. The Assyrian Genocide was not an appendix. The Greek Genocide, including the Greeks of Pontus, was not a footnote.
Together, they were the Thirty-Year Genocide.
From the Hamidian massacres, through the Young Turks, and into the first years of the Turkish Republic, the uniforms changed. The logic did not.
It was Turkification through dispossession: the cannibalization of peoples, histories and holy places to fabricate a nation pure enough for its own myth.
Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks were murdered, uprooted, converted, erased and then denied. Their homes became someone else’s innocence. Their churches became someone else’s silence. Their absence became someone else’s alibi.
No nation has the moral right to recognize only the part of this history that is easiest to name.
Certainly not the Jewish state.
NILI understood this before Israel existed. Sarah Aaronsohn saw what the Ottoman machine was doing to the Armenians. Aaron Aaronsohn understood the warning: once an empire learns to treat a minority as a security problem, the next people can be marked for disappearance.
The Jews of the Land of Israel were not distant observers. They were, very likely, next in line.
That is why this decision matters.
Not as revenge. Not as diplomacy. Not as a message to Ankara.
As truth.
Israel should now complete the act: recognize the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides together, as one historical crime of extermination, dispossession and denial.
A Jewish state does not outsource memory.
It does not negotiate truth.
It does not stop halfway.
@gidonsaar
BREAKING: Israel's cabinet unanimously approved a proposal on Sunday to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, sending the measure, introduced by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, to the Knesset for a final vote.
"It's never too late to do the right thing," Sa'ar said after the vote, calling recognition of the Armenian Genocide "both a moral and historical duty" and condemning efforts to deny or distort the historical record.
If approved by the Knesset, Israel will officially recognize the Armenian Genocide for the first time, ending decades of successive Israeli governments avoiding the issue because of strategic and diplomatic relations with Turkey and, more recently, Azerbaijan.
The issue has been debated in Israel for years, with individual lawmakers and parliamentary committees expressing support for recognition. However, no Israeli government has previously approved a proposal that could lead to official state recognition.
Turkey continues to deny that the systematic mass killings, deportations, and persecution of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 constituted genocide. The term "genocide" itself was coined in 1944 by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who cited the Armenian Genocide as one of the defining events that led him to develop the concept.
The Israeli government voted on Sunday to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, following a resolution proposal put forth by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar late last week.
https://t.co/5iPjSk9q2n
It's never too late to do the right thing.
I thank @IsraeliPM Netanyahu for his support, and the government ministers for their unanimous approval of the resolution I initiated for Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Thus, Israel joins 32 countries that have fulfilled a moral duty by recognizing the historical truth, and rejecting attempts to deny it.