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    ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT REVERSES STAND ON RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    i24news
    Dec 5 2014

    Previously a vocal supporter of recognition, Rivlin has now refrained
    from signing annual petition

    Throughout his lengthy political career, Israeli President Reuven
    Rivlin has been a staunch and vocal advocate of official recognition as
    genocide of the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915;
    however, following his election to the top post earlier this year,
    it appears that he has reversed his stance to one that falls in line
    with Israel's official policy on the controversial matter.

    Israeli media reported Rivlin decided to refrain from putting his
    signature on an annual petition calling Israel to recognize the
    atrocities visited on the Armenians, having signed the document in
    previous years.

    Armenia has been trying to get Turkey to recognize the killings of
    up to 1.5 million people under the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

    But Turkey says 500,000 died of fighting and starvation during World
    War I and categorically rejects the term genocide.

    Over the years, Israel has refrained from commenting on the matter
    for fear of angering Turkey, which was its closest ally in the Muslim
    world until the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010.

    Last year Rivlin, then a parliamentarian with the Likud party, spoke
    at a Knesset session devoted to marking the 98-year anniversary of the
    Armenian Genocide; he said that "Turkey has always been and will be
    an ally of Israel. Talks with Turkey at this time are understandable
    and necessary strategically and politically, but these circumstances
    cannot justify the Knesset's denial of another nation's misfortunes."

    Rivlin added it was "inconceivable that the Knesset would ignore this
    tragedy, the historical facts of which are so well established. We find
    it hard to forgive the disregard of other peoples and unfortunately
    for us we should not ignore other people's misfortunes."

    http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/53487-141205-israel-s-president-reverses-stand-on-recognition-of-armenian-genocide

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