Addressing the Labor party's convention, Herzog said "I stand here today to launch Labor's election campaign. This is the first step in a long journey at the end of which we will replace the government."

A large portion of Herzog's speech focused on peace negotiation currently being brokered by the US. Herzog stressed that Labor is adamant in its commitment to support the peace process.

"I have told the prime minister we'll support him if he is to lead a diplomatic solution (to the conflict). I told he has a mandate for an agreement. He has a mandate to reach a deal on final borders. He has a mandate to find a solution (to the conflict) without which the Jewish people will have no home, no Zionist vision, to bloomingArmenian civilians in the country from 1915-1922 killing approximately million Armenians.

Assyrians

The Assyrian Genocide was the massacre of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire, which were in the regions of southeastern Turkey and the Urmia region of Iran, were deported and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish armies in 1914 and 1920.  Sources have put the death tolls at nearly 750,000.

Greeks

The Ottoman Empire under the Young Turks, followed by Mustafa Kemal and his Nationalists, committed genocide against their Greek citizens from 1913–1923, killing approximately 1.2 million Greeks, 353,000 of whom were Pontic Greeks from the Black Sea area.

Muslims
After the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, for reliability reasons, the data regarding the Muslim casualties had to be collected by region. The records regarding the Muslim civilians were sealed at