Israel’s President endorses Pope’s comments on Armenian Genocide
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke out strongly on the question of the Armenian genocide in a closed session with journalists held last week in Jerusalem in honor of Israel Independence Day, The Tower reports.
In his comments, Rivlin drew a direct historical link between the world’s failure to prevent the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust. “The Nazis,” he said, “used the Armenian genocide as something that gave them permission to bring the Holocaust into reality.”
Rivlin also endorsed the comments made by Pope Francis on April 12, in which he referred to the slaughter of the Armenians as the “first genocide of the Twentieth Century.”
“I will congratulate the Pope on these comments,” Rivlin said. “This is important to Christians, Jews, Muslims—to human beings.”