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THE JEWS CANNOT REMAIN INDIFFERENT TO ARMENIAN TRAGEDY
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/227867
12/26/2011
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said, Monday, "It is our moral duty to
remember and commemorate the tragedy that befell the Armenian people."
Addressing a Knesset Education Committee hearing on recognition by
the Jewish people of the destruction of the Armenian population in
the Ottoman Empire during and immediately after World War I, Rivlin
referred to the current Turkish government's sensitivity on the subject
when he continued, "We do not want to exploit the political situation
to settle scores with another country. One must remember that since
'89 Haim Oron and I have put the issue on the Knesset's agenda every
year, in order not to enable denial of a tragedy to another people."
He added, "We as a people, demand from the world not to deny the
Holocaust that befell us, and we cannot morally, as Jews and as human
beings, to do so to another people. It's not a political issue but
a moral issue of the highest order."
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/227867
12/26/2011
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said, Monday, "It is our moral duty to
remember and commemorate the tragedy that befell the Armenian people."
Addressing a Knesset Education Committee hearing on recognition by
the Jewish people of the destruction of the Armenian population in
the Ottoman Empire during and immediately after World War I, Rivlin
referred to the current Turkish government's sensitivity on the subject
when he continued, "We do not want to exploit the political situation
to settle scores with another country. One must remember that since
'89 Haim Oron and I have put the issue on the Knesset's agenda every
year, in order not to enable denial of a tragedy to another people."
He added, "We as a people, demand from the world not to deny the
Holocaust that befell us, and we cannot morally, as Jews and as human
beings, to do so to another people. It's not a political issue but
a moral issue of the highest order."
From: Baghdasarian