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Rachel Avraham is the CEO of the Dona Gracia Center for Diplomacy and an Israel-based journalist. She is the author of "Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media." She has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Ben-Gurion University and a BA in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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There are many reasons to officially integrate Azerbaijan into the Israeli-American alliance with the Arab and Muslim states.
IMPACT-SE, an organization that monitors how various countries educate for tolerance, conducted a new study titled "Israel and Jews in Azerbaijani Education", which examines Azerbaijani textbooks' approaches to Jews and Israel.
France’s damaging of Azerbaijan’s reputation in Europe not only harms Azerbaijan’s future—completely unjustly—but also another pro-Western country in the Middle East, Israel.
Who do you think the United States should support in this issue? Obviously, Azerbaijan.
Gholamreza Gholizadeh, a lay Shia eulogist, referred to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as “bastards” and “consumers of illegitimately acquired food.”
As we speak, the greater Middle East is changing before our very own eyes,
Israel is not the only US ally that the Washington Post loves to attack.
After Iran attacked Israel with over 200 ballistic missiles, it would behoove Israel to support Iran’s ethnic groups in an uprising aimed at toppling the mullahs in Tehran.
"The prospect of strengthening Baku-Moscow relations is likely to worry Tehran."
“The massacre has caused severe emotional and psychological trauma for the community."
Israeli military technology has become a cornerstone of Azerbaijan's defense strategy.
"These groups do not represent Islam," he said, "but are dangerous extremists undermining the stability of different regions."
One of the most prominent proponents of the reconquest ideology is Ruben Vardanyan, who led a separatist regime in a ghost city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
On May 10, Politico reported that the California-based Center for Truth and Justice sent a petition to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accusing Azerbaijan of genocide against Artsakh Armenians (The ICC should consider the new Armenian genocide petition). Never mind the fact that the 100,000 Armenians who recently left Karabakh and resettled in […]
Athens' deputy mayor Elli Papageli said: “Peace is something that happens through dialogue and diplomacy, not military conflict.”
The US is the 30th safest country in the world.
“Iran apologized to Azerbaijan after the incident, a criminal case was opened against the gunman, and a death sentence was issued."
Saadat Shukurova Israilov, head of channel 24, vice president of the International AzIz organization and chairwoman of the Donna Gracia Center for Diplomacy, stated in an interview: “Azerbaijan is the world's center of tolerance. We observe this in everyday life..”
"When a woman is raped, the humanity of a human being is severely violated.”
“The rate of progress of the IDF, above and below the ground, is historically fast."
Recently, over 50,000 people marched against anti-Semitism in London.
I will discuss the parallels between the Khojaly genocide and October 7, and how this led to Azerbaijan’s support for Israel in this war.
The Azerbaijanis empathize with Israel because they have suffered the same terrorism that Israelis suffer today.
Azerbaijan plays a crucial role in helping Europe reduce its reliance on Russian gas and oil.
CNN last Saturday published an article (In Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter, a controversial land deal pits a community against its religious leaders) claiming that the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem is facing an “existential crisis” – the Armenian community is shrinking since its members are “pitted between Jewish extremists and the ongoing and worsening Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The […]
"Israeli technology can greatly help us in agriculture with their desalination and drip irrigation technology, and many other innovations.”
Opening an embassy in Tel Aviv did not take place in a vacuum.
“If we are forced to and are dragged into war, Azerbaijan will defend itself.”
"A Shia Muslim country has now opened up an embassy in Tel Aviv and become a friend of Israel."
“It’s good that, finally, we have an Azerbaijani embassy in Israel.”
The crowd protested for four hours, despite the bitter cold and the snow.
A team of 370 Azerbaijanis reached the earthquake area to assist in the rescue operations.
Iran has recently been greatly disturbed by the opening of a new Azerbaijani Embassy in Tel Aviv.
"Armenia used to be majority Azerbaijani. These people need to return to their homeland.”
It’s one more reason why Tehran is strengthening its relationship with Armenia, Azerbaijan’s sworn enemy.
“Iran will be fragmented,” Dr. Kedar predicts. “It is only a matter of time – and casualties, unfortunately.”
They cannot read or write in their mother tongue, since this is banned under the mullah’s regime.
“Sixty to seventy percent of prisoners are women, and they are raping them and destroying them."
A similar attack was carried out earlier by Lebanese Armenians against the Azerbaijani embassy in Beirut.
In 2020, Azerbaijan claimed that its pipeline had been targeted during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Zislin received an honorable mention at the International Photography Awards 2020 contest in Fine art, Landscapes and Architecture, and Cityscapes.
It should be noted that 85% of Azerbaijan’s population are Shia Muslims.
Since the war in Ukraine began, Russia has not been paying attention to events in Karabakh, which encourages flare-ups.
Later this month, Kara will explore “how Israeli robots can offer a solution to Azerbaijan’s landmine problem.”
Landmines should be banned worldwide because they are indiscriminate weapons that kill and maim innocent men, women, and children.
The Azeri official stressed the positive relations of the olim from Azerbaijan with their native country.
I've noticed many improvements in Shusha since my last visit there a year ago.
The speech coincided with Israeli finance minister Avigdor Liberman’s April 24 visit to Azerbaijan.
“The ancient capital city of the Azerbaijanis is not Baku, it is Tabriz, which is occupied by Iran."
The Economic Peace Center is hosting a panel titled “Karabakh and the Khojaly Genocide” at the Begin Center on February 28th at 7 PM
Only a small minority of Shia Persians are ruling over the vast majority, who don’t fall under this category.
Harris noted that Azerbaijan is home to a Jewish community that dates back 2,500 years.
The number of women who have filed domestic violence reports in Iraqi Kurdistan has decreased since the start of the pandemic.
Earlier this year, there were indications that Azerbaijan would be willing to host a trilateral conference between Turkey and Israel.
"It was Armenia who started the conflict. The Azerbaijanis want to make peace, yet this is how they are being repaid.”
Close to one million Azerbaijanis were displaced from Karabakh during the First Karabakh War (1988-1994).
“Presidents Obama and Clinton's mistake was that they thought there could be democracy in Egypt,” Kara explained.
According to Kara, “Jordan can now help the Druze refugees on humanitarian grounds."
An Iraqi court warned that it plans to issue arrest warrants for all the conference participants, as soon as their identities became known.
Fizuli, on Iran's border, was one of the cities that were destroyed during the First Karabakh War.
“Passersby, regardless of their religious affiliation, always congratulate us on Rosh Hashanah.”
Israel sold Azerbaijan SandCat-Stormer armored vehicles with 12.7 mm NSV machine guns, anti-tank guided missiles SPIKE-ER, NLOS, LAHAT, 120 mm SPEAR mortars, and numerous UAVs.
Kara visited a joint Italian-Israeli dairy farm and cheese factory which is under construction in the Karabakh region.
"Did you know that in 1915 the Armenian genocide was organized by Jews?”
International Women’s Day in Azerbaijan is about revering mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters because they are holy, as he puts it.
“The question is, where is the International Criminal Court, who always condemns Israel for defending itself yet is silent on the repression of Iran’s minorities?
How can the Armenians justify the desecration of a Holocaust memorial by the fact that Israel sold weapons to Azerbaijan? Does this give someone the right to desecrate the memorial?
According to Gurbanli, Armenia’s treatment of the cultural and religious heritage sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh region constitutes a crime against humanity:
The more certain we are that we're right, the greater the chances that we're wrong
I got the coronavirus while I was in my own home while working from home during a lockdown from my own mother-in-law, who was in denial about having corona for she had been vaccinated and thought it was impossible to get it due to that.
Democratic and totalitarian governments alike are finding it difficult to keep law and order during these trying times
For Azerbaijan, one of their greatest tasks after restoring their territorial integrity is to rebuild the infrastructure that was destroyed
Is anywhere safe from antisemitism?
The rise of the Antifa and BLM Movements in the United States following the coronavirus disaster has strengthened radical Islam
The future of Western civilization is in our hands, whether it survives or disappears.
This month, the last month of the year, Human Rights Day was commemorated. Every year, all over the world, people and organizations hold ceremonies to celebrate this day on December 10th. The main goal of this day is to prevent human rights violations by cruel governments and to protect human rights and freedom. Although after […]
Agdam is a modern-day parallel for our liberation of Jerusalem thousands of years ago on Hanukkah.
Jewish refugees from the Arab world can very easily sympathize with the plight of the Azerbaijanis
Jewish communities in Azerbaijan issued a joint statement calling upon Jewish communities around the world to stand by Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War.
Bahrain is an Arab country that until two months ago did not recognize Israel at all. Yet, their foreign minister now has visited my home in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital city. What an amazing change.
Modern-day Armenia is a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East. While some Armenians tried to note that Azerbaijan also has trade relations with Iran, there is a big difference between trading with Iran and being a proxy of Iran.
Her family was supposed to have a nice trip to Eilat--instead...
Have ghosts of ASALA, a brutal Armenian terror organization allied with the PLO, come back to life? If so, how will this affect Israel?
Off the record, an Israeli government official claimed that Erdogan is all talk and no action when it comes to Israel, stressing that this alone means that they are not like Iran. In other words, Erdogan is a hypocrite, who talks tough against Israel but at the end of the day, does nothing.
Some members of Congress and the Senate as well, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren have been extremely critical of Israel and would like to condition US aid on stopping Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Yet, they have supported US legislation that supports Armenian settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh
Many Americans are probably wondering, why would the mullah’s in Iran seek to back Christian Armenia against another Shia Muslim nation?
Arafat said, :We and the Armenians are one people.”
This is Russia’s way of punishing Azerbaijan for seeking to establish a pipeline to Europe that bypasses Russian influence, reducing Europe’s dependency on Russian gas, which is something that Moscow disdains.
The winds of peace are blowin'
A Brookings Institute Report claims that the pandemic has made it extremely difficult to fight against ISIS, as the high cost of fighting against the pandemic and fixing local economies will likely cause many countries to cut back on their counter-terrorism budgets, thus leading to the West abandoning their regional partners, such as the Kurds.
The combination between an ambitious president and his militant religious ideology brings Turkey into a conflict with all its neighbors including Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, the US, NATO, the EU, and Russia.
Between 500 and 600 Azerbaijani Jews marched along the Old City of Jaffa and then demonstrated outside of the Armenian Cultural Center and the Armenian Church.
Adopting Antifa tactics, symbols and ideology harms any Israeli who seeks to speak out against the present economic disaster and seeks true solutions for the nation’s problems.
The puppet-master and its puppets wreak havoc on the vulnerable, as the world focuses on the pandemic
Just as people moved beyond other annexations they will get over Israel annexing part of YESHA too.
Neither Fatah nor Hamas appear to be grateful for the life-saving assistance that they received from the Jewish state.
Many analysts have concluded that China has taken advantage of the pandemic in order to seize geopolitical gain, from their fiery rhetoric aimed at the US to their suppression of the people of Hong Kong to their aggression in the South China Sea.
