Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized the Armenian Genocide on Tuesday during a podast interview with Patrick Bet-David — a major diplomatic reversal that Israel had resisted for many decades.

As Breitbart News has noted, the Armenian Genocide took place during the First World War, when some 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Ottoman Turks.

As Breitbart News explained earlier this year:

Modern historians look upon the events of 1915-1916 as the first of several genocidal events in the 20th Century, while Turkey disputes the allegation that its Ottoman predecessors were attempting to systematically eliminate the Armenian…

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