The eternal flame at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day 2014 via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s government today unanimously approved formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide on Sunday, marking a historic break with decades of diplomatic caution and delivering a direct rebuke to Turkey’s long campaign of denial. The cabinet backed a proposal brought by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to recognize the mass killing, imprisonment and forced deportation of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire as genocide, according to a report from the Jerusalem Post. The decision must still be ratified by the Knesset before becoming Israel’s formal parliamentary position. “A historic decision: the Israeli government has unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s proposal to recognize the Armenian…
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