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Yosi Sarid's article "Return from Armenia" was published
on April 27 in Haaretz newspaper. Yosi Sarid is the member of Israel's
Kneset. He wrote the article after the participation in "Ultimate
Crime, Ultimate Challenge. Human Rights and Genocide" conference
held in Yerevan on April 20-21. Yehuda Bauer, Israel Charni, Yair
Oran were also invited to the conference.
"Israel's pretense is extremely important for the Armenians.
They even made some changes in the schedule, giving us an opportunity
to return home on the eve of Pesakh. The Jewish-Israeli position
in the issue of the Armenian Genocide deeply concerns and at the
same time encourages the Armenians. They are concerned as the official
Israel still avoids to recognize their ultimate crime. They are
encouraged, as the world's Jewish community and we rebelled against
the statement of Simon Peres who denied the Armenian Genocide,"
Sarid wrote.
Sarid called all the disputes over the fact of the genocide stupid
and disgusting. He says that it's out of the question that one could
kill 1,5 million of people in two years without planning the massacres
beforehand. "The Turks can bring thousands of excuses and explain
what had happened, but that is not the point. The point is that
people, women, children, men died a cruel and unnatural death,"
he said.
Sarid also touched upon the prevention of the genocide, meaning
that the phenomenon of the genocide still exists. He emphasized
the importance of the responsibility. "Today's Turks are not
guilty for that, so I can't understand why they still deny the genocide
instead of bearing the moral and the historical responsibility.
They damage their authority, especially, when they are knocking
at the EU's doors. They should be admitted, but only after bearing
the responsibility," Sarid wrote.
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