{"id":151133,"date":"2011-12-26T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=151133"},"modified":"2011-12-26T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T11:21:21","slug":"france-can-afford-that-which-israel-cannot-knesset-committee-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/26\/france-can-afford-that-which-israel-cannot-knesset-committee-chair.html","title":{"rendered":"France Can Afford that Which Israel Cannot: Knesset Committee Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knesset.gov.il\/mk\/eng\/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=785\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Alex Miller<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, head of Israel&#8217;s Knesset Committee on Education, Culture and Sports, has suggested not to imitate the French, who have entered into a confrontation with the Turks for political reasons. Recall, this committee today is planning to discuss a proposal to mark April 24 as a memorial day for &#8220;the massacre of the Armenian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meeting will be attended by supporters of the Armenian Genocide, including Knesset Speaker <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knesset.gov.il\/mk\/eng\/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=114\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Reuven Rivlin<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> and parliamentary coalition chair <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knesset.gov.il\/mk\/eng\/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=768\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Zeev Elkin<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>. Many point a finger at Paris, saying that the French were not afraid to get into a confrontation with Turkey. However, it&#8217;s important to understand that every country has its own statutes, its own priorities. France can afford that which Israel cannot, but they have more reasons for recognizing this genocide,&#8221; he said, reports IzRus, explaining that he was referring to the 600,000\u2013strong Armenian community in France, who enthusiastically accepted the parliament&#8217;s decision to criminalize genocide denial.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the parliamentary committee added that he wouldn&#8217;t advise Israeli deputies to copy their French colleagues&#8217; actions. &#8220;I repeat, we mustn&#8217;t make an academic and historical debate into a political mess. We need to learn history, so that tragedies are not repeated \u2014 not ruin relations with our allies over controversial issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Miller, head of Israel&#8217;s Knesset Committee on Education, Culture and Sports, has suggested not to imitate the French&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36261,10372,16861,665,26694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}