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Israel’s Massive Supply of Sophisticated Weapons to Azerbaijan

On March 5, the Israeli Haaretz newspaper published an astounding article titled, “92 Flights from Israeli Base Reveal Arms Exports to Azerbaijan.” The article reported that on March 2, Azerbaijan’s Silk Way Airlines’ cargo plane landed in Israel’s Ovda military airport. Two hours later, it returned to Baku via Turkey and the Georgian Republic. In the last seven years, this is the 92nd cargo flight from Baku to Ovda, the only airfield in Israel that is allowed to export explosives.

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

4 Comments

  1. Haaretz is a Liberal and anti Netanyahu and to a lesser extent Azerbaijan newspaper that has a soft spot for Armenia

  2. lf US Nato lsrael will grant us safety Armenia should minimize turn back to lran because armenia more trustable than azerbaijan western civilzation war on against lran also alot of armenians in lran suffer discrimination and most of them already fled there is nothing for armenians in lran our way should be with USA Nato lsrael not lran russia turkey arab states.

  3. Isreal should be bombed and demilitrazized for funding terrorist iskamic nations to kill or hurt Armenia with the help of us tax dollars.

    US should stop funding terrorist nations like isreal

  4. “…and in return receives about half of its imported oil.”
    Really? And how much is that? no numbers of course.

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