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NO EDUCATION COMMITTEE DECISION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/227878
Dec 26 2011
Israel
Monday's hearing of the Knesset Education Committee on recognizing
the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s ended
without a decision. Member of Knesset Aryeh Eldad (National Union),
who initiated the hearing, said, "The committee missed an opportunity,
today, to make an historical-moral statement, including a call to
the full Knesset to recognize the genocide of the Armenian and an
application to the education minister to enter the subject into the
Israeli school curricula. Instead, the chairman of the committee gave
in to a dictate from the Prime Minister's Office, again because of
"the special sensitivity of Israel-Turkey relations."
Eldad continued, "They always told us we can't broach the subject
because our relations with Turkey are too good. Now they tell us our
relations are too bad. A moral statement by the Jewish people must
not fall victim to the blackmail of threats from Turkey or Azerbaijan.
Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/227878
Dec 26 2011
Israel
Monday's hearing of the Knesset Education Committee on recognizing
the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s ended
without a decision. Member of Knesset Aryeh Eldad (National Union),
who initiated the hearing, said, "The committee missed an opportunity,
today, to make an historical-moral statement, including a call to
the full Knesset to recognize the genocide of the Armenian and an
application to the education minister to enter the subject into the
Israeli school curricula. Instead, the chairman of the committee gave
in to a dictate from the Prime Minister's Office, again because of
"the special sensitivity of Israel-Turkey relations."
Eldad continued, "They always told us we can't broach the subject
because our relations with Turkey are too good. Now they tell us our
relations are too bad. A moral statement by the Jewish people must
not fall victim to the blackmail of threats from Turkey or Azerbaijan.