Israel’s international TV station, i24NEWS, aired on January 27 a program that sang the praises of Azerbaijan-Israel military relations and denigrated Armenia and Iran. Last week,
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As armenian from jordan living in canada more than 40 years,lsrael azeri relations our mistake because of our unneccesary diaspora in middle east arab states and lran to thought persians and arabs might help us if our diaspora give up from unstable unsafe middle eastern countries to repatriate to armenia in 90s armenia could be ally of lsrael not azeris we paying price of short sighted diaspora leaders plans in middle east there is no bright nor prosperity future for our diaspora in middle east we experienced that during egypt 1940s jordan 1960s lebanon civil war syria civil war lraq war and our arab neighbours call us you all come with nothing will leave nothing l wish our diaspora realize and move to armenia serve own state.
you are right to call it a propaganda. because there is no sincere and genuine relations of any kind between the two countries. it has only been benefiting Israel and has done Azerbaijan more harm than good. I have not seen the film myself but judging by your accounts most of its claims are not true, if you just care to think about it. it claims that Israel as a good friend help Azerbaijan to win the second karabakh war and liberate occupied territories. if that is the case, why didn’t they help Azerbaijan to win the first karabakh war then, it would have saved their Azerbaijani friends the second karabakh war and billions of dollars. it was not that they didn’t have weapons then, they had just as much weapons then as now. in fact Azerbaijan lost first karabakh was because of Israeli involvement in the country. if it was not for so called friendly military relations between Azerbaijan and Israel, the religious dictatorship in Iran (I am no fan of it) would have stepped in and helped Azerbaijan to defend its territories, just like it has been doing elsewhere in the region.
The so-called Azerbaijan republic in the South Caucasus was a 1918 Soviet invention. How can an artificial state of 105 years such as Azerbaijan have any territory to liberate? There has never been an Azerbaijani nation or an Azerbaijani nation-state before 1918 to have any territory ‘occupied’ by anyone. The only TRUE Azerbaijan exists to the south of the Aras River in Iran. There has never been an Azerbaijan to the north of Aras River in the South Caucasus before its artificial creation in 1918. What is called Azerbaijan republic today is in fact territory taken from Armenia as well as territory from half dozen other nationalities such as the Talysh, Lezgis, Avars, Tats and Udis. These are the true indigenous people of this artificial Azerbaijani land. Azerbaijan was invented as a base for Soviet expansion into Persia & the Middle East as well as a Turkish outpost, a little Turkey if you will, in the South Caucasus after the fall and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the Allied Powers at the end of WWI. In fact, it was created as a home for the homeless Caucasian Muslim Tatars and renamed to Azerbaijan in 1936 despite protest from the Iranian government for stealing the name from the Northwestern Persian provinces bearing this name. The naming was deliberate and it was changed to Azerbaijan as a joint Turkish-Azerbaijani pan-Turkic political move for later claiming the Azerbaijan republic in the South Caucasus as ‘North Azerbaijan’ and Northwestern Iranian provinces bearing the same name as ‘South Azerbaijan’ as part of anti-Iranian separatist agenda.
The Islamic republic of Iran considers the Soviet-invented Azerbaijan as Iranian territory because Persian Empire at the time ruled over this region for some time before the Russians took it over from them in early 19th century. If the Islamic leaders of Iran had actively backed up Azerbaijan against Armenia in the first ‘Karabakh’ war, and in absence of Israel, that would have been because they considered Azerbaijan as part of their territory. So in that sense they would have been helping themselves and not Azerbaijan just like when and if some Russian leaders make pro-Azerbaijani statements that’s because they are nostalgic about the Soviet Union and consider its collapse as one of the major Russian geopolitical tragedies and by making seemingly pro-Azerbaijani statements they are in fact making pro-Russian statements because to go back to the Soviet times requires the occupation of Armenian territories by Soviet-invented Azerbaijan. At the end of the day, I personally believe, whatever help Iran could have given to Azerbaijan that would have been because the Mullahs in Iran consider the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict zone as ‘Islamic territory’ and not pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani territory because Iran considers Azerbaijani leadership as one of its top enemies in the region. Besides, Iran or former Persia, having had neighborly relations with the kingdom of Armenia dating back 2,500 years knows quite well whose territories these are. It is just that an Islamic nation can never openly defend a Christian nation against another Islamic nation, an artificial one at that, openly and justifiably so. Behind the scenes perhaps but not publically!