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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Asbarez: Israel’s Armenian Community Protests Arms Sales to Azerbaijan



BY DIANA GALSTYAN

The Union of the Armenian Communities in Israel organized a demonstration on Tuesday to protest Elbit Systems, an international defense electronics company that manufactures weapons supplied to Azerbaijan.

As is well known, Israel supplies 60 percent of the Azerbaijani military’s armaments, including drones and deadly cluster bombs, which are banned by close to 100 nations. During the war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Azerbaijan used Israeli weapons to attack innocent civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, and to bomb hospitals and churches.

Presently, Israel’s defense industry is in the process of negotiating yet another arms deal with Azerbaijan, and Israel’s Armenian community cannot be indifferent to this. On Tuesday, Israel’s Armenian community gathered outside of Elbit Systems to demand that the Israeli government stop supplying weapons to Azerbaijan’s authoritarian regime, and reminding them that, with its growing Islamic fundamentalisms and intolerance towards national minorities, Azerbaijan is an unreliable ally for Israel itself.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS