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    ISRAELI CABINET MINISTER URGES FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    June 14, 2012 - 21:32 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - An Israeli cabinet minister said that the Jewish
    state ought to change its policy and recognize the 1915 mass killings
    of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as an act of Genocide, Reuters reported.

    Gilad Erdan, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
    answered a motion in parliament by opposition lawmakers marking the
    massacre's anniversary.

    "I think it is definitely fitting that the Israeli government formally
    recognize the Holocaust perpetrated against the Armenian people,"
    Erdan, Israel's environmental affairs minister said.

    Israel has long avoided acknowledging the mass killings of Armenians
    as Genocide, in deference to already strained ties with Turkey which
    rejects that view.

    Relations with Turkey have been tense since the 2010 killings of nine
    Turkish activists in a commando raid on a Gaza-bound ship. Turkey
    withdrew its ambassador to Israel after that incident and suspended
    military cooperation.

    Erdan said the Israeli government had not formally changed its
    policy on the Armenian's past tragedy, adding: "we should definitely
    support holding an open and in depth discussion that analyses the
    data and facts."


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