Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially recognized the Armenian Genocide during an interview Tuesday on the Patrick Bet-David Podcast—marking a dramatic reversal of decades-long Israeli policy. The acknowledgment aligns Israel with the United States and numerous Western nations that have already recognized the mass killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide.
A historic Trump peace accord has ended more than 30 years of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, giving the United States an unprecedented foothold in the South Caucasus.
