The Israeli government recognized the deaths of one and a half million Armenians during World War I as genocide for political reasons, and Armenia is not even the intended addressee here. Prime Minister Pashinyan quite rightly noted that his country is not interested in turning the recognition of the Armenian genocide into an instrument of political struggle. The main addressee here is not even Turkey, but the United States. At the political lev…
Recognition of the 1915 genocide, demanded for decades by Armenians, often progresses not when memory demands it, but when it serves to inconvenience Turkey. Israel is the latest example.