You're watching Middle East Matters on France 24. Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome our Jerusalem correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky and Amberin Zaman, Chief Correspondent for Al Monitor, a Washington-based independent news organization that covers the Middle East and North Africa. Zaman argues that Israel's apparent recognition of the Armenian genocide is less a principled historical reckoning than a "nakedly cynical" strategy shaped by the Gaza war, tensions with Turkey and shifting regional alliances.