...ναι μωρέ, μωρέ, ο πόνος τους έπιασε:"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" είπε ο Κίσινγκερ, αντιγράφοντας τον Πάλμερστον (ο οποίος, αν δεν απατώμαι, μας έκανε κι έναν εύμορφο ναυτικό αποκλεισμό, "διπλωματία των κανιοφόρων") στο "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual". [όπως και την Ισραηλινή ηγεσία την έπιασε ο πόνος και η συνειδητοποίησις, αλλά ζορίζονται ολίγον τι:"Israel’s Refusal to Recognize the Armenian Genocide Is Indefensible"For many years, Israel feared Turkey’s wrath if it recognized the genocide. Since the late 1950s, Turkey had been a strong strategic ally of the Jewish state—one of its only friends in the Muslim world. There were close ties between the two nations’ intelligence and security establishments, and Turkey was an important and lucrative market for Israeli weapons. Whenever Israeli parliamentarians, human rights activists, and historians called for recognition of the Armenian genocide, the initiative was blocked by the government. Regardless of their ideology and political orientation, consecutive Israeli governments, knowing that any change of heart and policy would anger Turkey and jeopardize arms sales, placed economic interests before universal values. They agreed to define the genocide only as a “tragedy.”But in the past decade, relations between Turkey, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Israel have deteriorated. Arms sales were halted, and the clandestine intelligence cooperation aimed against the mutual enemy—Syria—was terminated. Nowadays, with Turkish-Israeli political and military relations at a new low, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair regularly exchange nasty verbal blows over Twitter with Erdogan, calling each other “tyrant,” “murderer,” and more.Yet Israel remains adamant in its refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide. These days, there is a new excuse: Azerbaijan, which between 1991 and 1994 lost a large chunk of territory to Armenia. Azerbaijan, a Muslim country with a predominantly Shiite population, needed to upgrade its military forces. It turned to Israel, which gladly agreed to sell its advanced military hardware to a new and promising market bordering Israel’s archrival Iran. At the beginning, the ties were secretive. Israeli military censors suppressed domestic media efforts to publish details about it.However, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev—who has been widely criticized for his corruption, abuse of power, and human rights violations—revealed the secret. In December 2016, while hosting Netanyahu, he said in a press conference that his country was purchasing $5 billion worth of Israeli weapons. To a certain degree, Azerbaijan has replaced Turkey as a market for Israeli military hardware(...)https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/24/israels-refusal-to-recognize-the-armenian-genocide-is-shameful-and-immoral-netanyahu-turkey-azerbaijan-yad-vashem-tsitsernakaberd/]