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ISRAELI MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE SPEAKS ABOUT SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE HISTORIES OF ARMENIANS AND JEWS IN TSITSERNAKABERD
ARMENPRESS
APRIL 16, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 16, ARMENPRESS: A delegation headed by Israeli Minister
of Agriculture Orit Noked visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. As
Armenpress reports, the minister put a wreath and paid tribute
to the memory of the innocent victims. Orit Noked, accompanied by
Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan and Director of
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, also visited the
museum-institute and familiarized herself with the exhibits.
"As a woman, as a Jewish and as a human being, I am shocked at what I
see in the photos, I am shocked at the murders of innocent Armenian
families," Orit Noked wrote down in the Commemoration Book of the
museum-institute. The Minister of Agriculture watered the fir-tree
she had already planted in the Memorial Park.
Orit Noked sees similarities between the destinies of Armenians and
Jewish people. "We are like each other with our history, character,
with our small number of population and having communities abroad,"
Mrs. Noked said in an interview with Armenpress. There is an Armenian
community of about 15000 in Israel.
More than 20 countries have recognized and condemned the Armenian
Genocide committed by the Ottoman Turkey in early 20th century.
Israel is not yet among those countries. The issue of the Armenian
Genocide was first raised in Knesset in 2007. The representatives of
"Likud" and "Merets" factions have repeatedly called for Israel to
end up with denial policy and recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Parallels are very often drawn between the Armenian Genocide and
Jewish Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six
million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic
state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMENPRESS
APRIL 16, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 16, ARMENPRESS: A delegation headed by Israeli Minister
of Agriculture Orit Noked visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. As
Armenpress reports, the minister put a wreath and paid tribute
to the memory of the innocent victims. Orit Noked, accompanied by
Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan and Director of
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, also visited the
museum-institute and familiarized herself with the exhibits.
"As a woman, as a Jewish and as a human being, I am shocked at what I
see in the photos, I am shocked at the murders of innocent Armenian
families," Orit Noked wrote down in the Commemoration Book of the
museum-institute. The Minister of Agriculture watered the fir-tree
she had already planted in the Memorial Park.
Orit Noked sees similarities between the destinies of Armenians and
Jewish people. "We are like each other with our history, character,
with our small number of population and having communities abroad,"
Mrs. Noked said in an interview with Armenpress. There is an Armenian
community of about 15000 in Israel.
More than 20 countries have recognized and condemned the Armenian
Genocide committed by the Ottoman Turkey in early 20th century.
Israel is not yet among those countries. The issue of the Armenian
Genocide was first raised in Knesset in 2007. The representatives of
"Likud" and "Merets" factions have repeatedly called for Israel to
end up with denial policy and recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Parallels are very often drawn between the Armenian Genocide and
Jewish Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six
million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic
state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany.
From: Baghdasarian