ISRAEL’S STANDPOINT CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Abstract

The recognition of the Armenian Genocide is one of the key and intricate problems on the Armenian national agenda, often spoken and written about. A variety of political, historiographical, psychological and social analyses has been conducted, a profound mass of venerable literature has been created, thereby introducing the issue to the international community and drawing the consideration of both Armenian and foreign scholars. With such an abundance of materials on the Armenian Genocide, nevertheless, some aspects of the issue need a thorough examination. Today special attention should be paid to the study of linguistic facts which are key elements of the textual mechanisms of adequate interpretation or perversion and distortion of the historical events. The textological analysis of diverse interpretations is quite a new and important statement in the research of the issue under consideration and is aimed at studying the linguistic expressions of various attitudes towards the issue of the Armenian Genocide. The present article aims at studying Israel’s attitude to the question of the Armenian Genocide from the abovementioned standpoint which also implies a reference to the historical outlook of the problem as to a corresponding element of the vertical context of the given variety of speech.