It is fitting to begin this article by recalling a sentence from my previous Daily Sabah column, which anticipated the logic of a self-fulfilling prophecy: “The next expected step from Pashinyan will be to confront the construct of the so-called Armenian genocide narrative.”
Our region is leaving behind a phase in which we have witnessed this very confrontation. What paved the way for it was Israel’s attempt to bring the so-called “Armenian genocide” issue back onto the agenda, resorting to various political ploys to overshadow the genocide it has been carrying out in Gaza.
Israeli conscience
The ministers of the genocidal Netanyahu government, which has brutally massacred more than 73,000 Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, have been attempting to manufacture various artificial agendas to make the world forget the Palestinian question. One of these was Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s announcement that Israel had unanimously recognized the Ottoman Empire’s treatment of the Armenians as a so-called “genocide.”
This statement is particularly concerning not only for Türkiye but also for Armenia, the other direct party to the matter. That Israel, which is currently facing genocide proceedings before the International Court of Justice, claims to have “fulfilled a moral duty by recognizing a historical truth” is, to put it mildly, tragicomic.
