The discussion about the Armenian Genocide and the need to recognize it should have taken place in the Knesset a long time ago, said Haim Oron, Knesset member and the head of Meretz party.

“I think that as sons of the Jewish People that knew the Holocaust and constantly fighting against those who deny the Holocaust, it's impossible to accept any disregarding from the Armenian Genocide. I hope that one day this recognition will be possible because we have moral and educational duty to this subject especially in this time when Israel keep stressing the need to preserve the memory of the Holocaust,” Mr. Oron told PanARMENIAN.Net.

As to war with Iran, he said it is possible. “I think that nuclear armed Iran is a world wide problem that should be solved in international framework,” Mr. Oron said.

Haim Oron was born in Tel-Aviv in 1940. He served as secretary of the Hashomer Hatzair movement from 1968-1971, and as later secretary of the movement's leadership. He was a founding member of the Peace Now movement. From 1994-1995 he was treasurer of the Histadrut (New General Federation of Labor). Haim Oron has been a Member of Knesset since 1988. In 2009, he introduced a draft resolution on recognition of the Armenian Genocide but the motion failed to gain the essential number of co-sponsors.