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ISRAELI PARLIAMENT TO HOLD PUBLIC DEBATE ON 'ARMENIAN GENOCIDE'
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19 May 2011, Thursday
An Israeli Parliament panel has announced plans to hold a public
debate on Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman
Empire, amid a deterioration in Turkish-Israeli ties, Israeli media
reported on Thursday.
The discussion will be the first public debate on the alleged
genocide in Israel, a former ally of Turkey. Turkish-Israeli
relations deteriorated sharply over Turkish complaints about the
Israeli treatment of Palestinians and Israel's refusal to apologize
for the killings of eight Turks and one Turkish American on an aid
ship headed to Gaza last year.
The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, has approved a request from
parliamentarian Zehava Gal-On to raise the "Armenian genocide" issue
in a public session, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
In recent years, former parliamentarian Haim Oron repeatedly
attempted to raise the issue at the Knesset's Education panel, with
government officials moving to cancel the debate. Last year, amid
the deterioration in Turkey-Israel ties, Oron was granted approval
to discuss the alleged genocide in the Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, meetings of which are closed to the media.
In 2007 the Knesset decided to shelve a proposal for a parliamentary
discussion on the Armenian genocide, in compliance with then Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert's request.
"The Armenian Genocide has been used as a pawn of Israel's Foreign
Ministry for too many years," Gal-On was quoted as saying in Haaretz.
Israel has chosen to "sacrifice the values of memory, recognition and
commemoration on the alter [sic] of narrow interests," she also said.
From: Baghdasarian
TODAYSZAMAN.COM
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-244440-israeli-parliament-to-hold-public-debate-on-armenian-genocide.html
19 May 2011, Thursday
An Israeli Parliament panel has announced plans to hold a public
debate on Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman
Empire, amid a deterioration in Turkish-Israeli ties, Israeli media
reported on Thursday.
The discussion will be the first public debate on the alleged
genocide in Israel, a former ally of Turkey. Turkish-Israeli
relations deteriorated sharply over Turkish complaints about the
Israeli treatment of Palestinians and Israel's refusal to apologize
for the killings of eight Turks and one Turkish American on an aid
ship headed to Gaza last year.
The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, has approved a request from
parliamentarian Zehava Gal-On to raise the "Armenian genocide" issue
in a public session, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
In recent years, former parliamentarian Haim Oron repeatedly
attempted to raise the issue at the Knesset's Education panel, with
government officials moving to cancel the debate. Last year, amid
the deterioration in Turkey-Israel ties, Oron was granted approval
to discuss the alleged genocide in the Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, meetings of which are closed to the media.
In 2007 the Knesset decided to shelve a proposal for a parliamentary
discussion on the Armenian genocide, in compliance with then Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert's request.
"The Armenian Genocide has been used as a pawn of Israel's Foreign
Ministry for too many years," Gal-On was quoted as saying in Haaretz.
Israel has chosen to "sacrifice the values of memory, recognition and
commemoration on the alter [sic] of narrow interests," she also said.
From: Baghdasarian