{"id":4361,"date":"2026-06-28T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:36:40","slug":"israel-moves-to-formally-recognize-armenian-wwi-deaths-as-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 Israel\u2019s Cabinet unanimously approved a proposal on Sunday to designate violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4359\">A skydiving plane crashes in northeastern France, killing all 11 people on board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The step, which still needs approval in Parliament, reflects deteriorating ties between Israel and Turkey. Turkey has fiercely lobbied to prevent countries from officially recognizing the mass deaths of Armenians around 1915 as a genocide, even as Armenians have pushed for it.<\/p>\n<p>Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Israel did not officially broach the subject for fear of angering Turkey, but that relationship has soured over the past two decades, especially in recent years as the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran have dragged on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the extensive and unambiguous historical documentation, the Armenian Genocide remains to this day the subject of an institutionalized campaign of denial and minimization, including a manipulative rewriting of history, mainly by the Turkish government,\u201d said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, who brought the decision to the government.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have previously described the violence against Armenians as a genocide. But it has never been formally recognized in a vote by Israel\u2019s Knesset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is never too late to do the right thing,\u201d Saar said Sunday, calling it a \u201cmoral and historical duty.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4358\">Woman arrested in female neighbor\u2019s Harnett County stabbing death on Dunrovin Lane: Sheriff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He noted that 32 countries, including the United States, Syria and Lebanon, have also classified the violence as a genocide. It was not immediately known when Sunday\u2019s decision, approved unanimously by Israel\u2019s Cabinet, would go to the parliament for approval. There was no immediate reaction from Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Turkey were once close allies, but relations soured during the rise of Turkey\u2019s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leading Israel to reconsider its position. <\/p>\n<p>Israel has faced repeated accusations, including from the United Nations and Turkey, that its offensive in Gaza amounts to genocide. Israel, founded in the wake of the Holocaust, denies the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Israel launched the war in response to Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, part of the Hamas government, says over 73,000 people have been killed, roughly half of them women and children. Israel says it does not target civilians and accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations accused Israel of deliberately shooting children in Gaza and repeated accusations that Israel has carried out a genocide. Israel called the report a \u201clibelous sham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4356\">Focusing on Fuquay-Varina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 Israel\u2019s Cabinet unanimously approved a proposal on Sunday to designate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide - Raleigh Moving News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4361\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide - 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