MUBARIZ AHMEDOGHLU: "THOSE PEOPLE FROM THE FORMER USSR, WHO MOVED TO ISRAEL, CONSIDER THEMSELVES THE CITIZENS OF A COUNTRY, WHICH RULES THE WORLD"

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Jan 9 2009
Azerbaijan

Today we are witnessing the killing of Palestinian children,
elderly people and women by the Israeli army without presenting
any substantiated documentary explanation of their aggression, said
head of the Center of political innovations and technologies Mubariz
Ahmedoghlu, speaking about the situation in Gaza.

He voiced confidence that Israel should have made concessions, for
now it agrees for creation of a Palestinian state only in words.

According to Ahmedoghlu, the powers are changing in Israel, and in
conditions of absence of advantage of any party, the leadership of
Israel could have undertaken such an open and tough blodshed for
becoming popular among the citizens of the country, which is an
erroneous step.

"Another possible reason of the new round of tensions in the
Palestine-Israeli conflict is that before Bush’s administration leaves
the power, the Israeli leadership decided to apply force to weaken its
enemies in the face of Hamas, faring that the new US president Obama
to take powers after January 20, will hold the policy considering
interests of the Palestinian leadership, unlike Bush.

The Iranian factor in this conflict should also be taken into
account, as Iran has recently made a number of untimely and illogical
anti-Israeli statements. On the whole, the Near Eastern policy of
Iran is erroneous.

As for the fact that people, who moved to Israel from the former USSR,
voice the most radical statements on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
he said that this is because those people from the former USSR,
who moved to Israel, consider themselves the citizens of a country,
which rules the world.

Speaking about the position of official Baku on the Palestine-Israel
conflict, he said the following:

"Official Baku considers Israel to be a friendly state. Moreover,
Azerbaijan always respected the representatives of all nations
and religions, including Jews, which was repeatedly confirmed by
representatives of different Jewish organizations. And to demonstrate
its sincere intention to establish warm relations with the Muslim
states, Israel could have become a real friend to Azerbaijan.

Unfortunately, we do not see it now and Israel’s attitude towards
Azerbaijan is less friendly. In particular, the influential Jewish
lobby of the United States did not assist to elimination of the
907th amendments. We can also recall the statements of the Knesset
representatives about the readiness of Israel to voice its position
of Nagorno Karabakh conflict only after Azerbaijan voices its position
on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

And we see that Israeli attempt to attain the support of official
Baku for the bloodshed it committed against Palestinian civilians,
neglect of a number of international norms and resolutions on the
settlement of the conflict.

But we should not forget that Azerbaijan is a member of the
Organization for Islamic Conference. And finally Azerbaijan’s position
in this issue bases on the importance to observe all international
documents, which demand creation of a Palestinian state", concluded
Ahmedoghlu.