World News – March 18, 2013
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein has called to recognize Armenian Genocide.
Many governments do not recognize the genocide, while their parliaments clearly do, he said during the meeting of a Knesset Education, Culture and Sport Committee, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“I will try to promote the issue and I hope that MKs will know the right way to vote in the moment of truth,” he stated.
His views were shared by committee’s chairman Ya’acov Margi (Shas) who urged Israeli government to recognize the Genocide and the Knesset plenum to make a historic decision in keeping with Jewish values.
Meanwhile, representative of Israeli government Oded Yosef said it is a political debate whether there was a genocide or not.