Netanyahu says he recognizes the Armenian Genocide

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he personally recognizes the Armenian Genocide as a genocide in an appearance on Patrick Bet-David’s podcast․

This came after Bet-David asked Netanyahu why Israel is so reluctant to recognize the massacre committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1917 as a genocide, given the context of worldwide recognition of the Holocaust.

Netanyahu informed the host that the Knesset recently passed a bill recognizing the massacre as genocide, but the host pushed him for personal recognition.

Netanyahu responded: “I just did.”

Patrick Bet-David commented that he, as an ethnic Armenian-Assyrian, is particularly interested in the subject and that many ethnic Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks want to hear recognition of the genocide from world leaders.