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Head of Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Work with the Diaspora, Nazim Ibrahimov, on Wednesday discussed with a senior Israeli lawmaker the issue of discussing the alleged Ottoman-era genocide of Armenians in the Knesset, the State Committee said.
The Israeli MP, Chairman of the Knesset Committee on Foreign Relations, who represents Israel Our Home nationalist party, Robert Ilatov, said: "I have repeatedly stated the position of the Israel Our Home Party, which strongly opposes any attempts to revise history. Knesset is not an international court on human rights and has no rights - either legal or moral - to pass decisions on this issue. Therefore, our unequivocal position is to remove the issue from discussion altogether."
The Israeli lawmakers have approved -- with a 12-8 vote -- discussing the "genocide" issue in one of the Knesset committees. The motion, initiated by MP Haim Oron of Meretz, along with his party, was supported by representatives of the Avoda party and ethnic Arab MPs.
According to historians, from 1915 to 1923, Armenians had begun an uprising. They had taken up arms against Turkey and assisted Russia, one of Turkey’s enemies in WWI. To counter these actions, the Ottoman Empire decided to resettle the Armenians. However, the latter claim that their predecessors were subjected to genocide in the process, while Ankara rejects the allegations and has offered to research the events through a joint commission of historians.*