HEAD OF JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ARMENIA CONSIDERS THAT SOONER OR LATER ISRAEL WILL RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
April 10, 2008

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Rima Varzhapetian, the head of the
Jewish community of Armenia, has sent a letter to the deputies of
Israeli Knesset calling them for being reasonable and adopting a
resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. As R. Varzhapetian said
at the April 10 press conference, that issue is raised every year
both in the whole world and in Israel on the eve of the commemoration
day of the Armenian Genocide victims. In her opinion, the moment
of recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Israel has matured, as
the relations between the two countries, Armenia and Israel, are at
rather a high level.

According to R. Varzhapetian, one of the reasons of Israel’s not
recognizing the Armenian Genocide so far is that independent historians
have not classed the events of 1915 as a genocide yet. However, as
the head of the community said, the Israeli people admits the fact of
the Armenian Genocide and sooner or later it will be also recognized
by the country’s authorities.

In R. Varzhapetian’s words, the Armenians do not work so much for the
recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community.

According to her, some people in the world even are not aware of the
Armenian Genocide. "And if they know nothing, who can they adopt and
recognize it?," the head of the Jewish community of Armenia said.