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Israel at the weekend came within a breath of finally officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
“The State of Israel recognizes the terrible suffering and tragedy of the Armenian people,” the Israel Foreign Ministry stated following the decision by US President
Joe Biden to officially recognize the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire 106 years ago.
“Especially these days, it is our responsibility and that of the countries of the world to make sure that such incidents do not recur,” the statement said.
The State of Israel has yet to officially recognize the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as an act of genocide. Several Israeli lawmakers and officials have long called on the state to do so, insisting that the Jewish state, which rose from the ashes of the Nazi Holocaust, has a duty to recognize and stand with any other peoples facing or who have faced such atrocities.