{"id":190547,"date":"2026-07-04T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:35:09","slug":"on-the-armenian-genocide-and-the-israeli-governments-borderline-statecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190547\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Armenian Genocide and the Israeli Government&#8217;s Borderline Statecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">The Armenians deserved this recognition a century ago. They receive it now not because historical truth finally prevailed, but because it briefly became politically expedient: one more truth spoken as a lie by the reckless government of Benjamin Netanyahu<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">&#8220;It is never too late to do the right thing,&#8221; Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar declared last week as the cabinet approved his resolution to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide. When a politician like Sa&#8217;ar suddenly discovers the moral imperative of doing the right thing, it is worth asking whether the meaning of the word &#8220;right&#8221; has quietly changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Armenians deserved this recognition a century ago. They receive it now not because historical truth finally prevailed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[288,41,7889,5740,14814,9105,37,24438,2742,1176],"class_list":["post-190547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-azerbaijan","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-genocide","tag-gideon-saar","tag-holocaust","tag-icj","tag-israel","tag-israel-turkey","tag-israeli-politics","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116864098137587283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}