Jerusalem Post: Knesset to discuss the Armenian Genocide bill.

Knesset members of radically different political orientations will seek this week to sway the Knesset Education Committee to promote Israeli recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud), MK Arye Eldad (National Union) and MK Zehava Galon (Meretz) will argue for a special annual Armenian memorial day in Israel. Jerusalem Post reports that "Jews entertain understandable reservations regarding the overuse the genocide term, connected with the Holocaust. Yet even if the Armenian case is not seen as a holocaust in the extreme form, which it took towards Jews, it is certainly the nearest thing to it.

Referring to the issue on recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the newspaper wrote that even in case of worsening of Turkish-Israeli relations, Turkey strives to hinder it so that Israel does not make that step.

The author of the article says that Erdogan's unmistakable aggressive stance towards the French parliamentary initiative contains a message for Israel too. "Obviously, it's not Israeli "misconduct" alone that provokes his ire. This is something for our diplomats to stress overseas," Jerusalem Post writes. "Why, for starters, not quit our unsavory habit of resisting Knesset resolutions on Turkey's infamous atrocities against the Armenians? We could elaborate on Turkey's first Armenian massacre of 1890; Turkey's subsequent massacres of 1915 in which over a million Armenians perished in a series of bloodbaths and forced marches of uprooted civilians in Syria's direction; the WWI slaughter of tens of thousands of Assyrians in Turkey's southeast; the ethnic cleansing, aerial bombardments and other operations that cost Kurds untold thousands of lives throughout the 20th century and beyond and still deny them the sovereignty they deserve; and finally, the 1974 invasion and continued occupation of northern Cyprus (which fails to bother the international community)," the paper concluded.