Jewish-Muslim Ties No Dream, Azerbaijan-Israel Prove It

Newsmax ^ | June 17, 2025 | Paul Miller

[re_tail20]

When Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, brutally murdering more than 1,200 Jews, and kidnapping over 250 Israelis, the images on TV and the internet of thousands rallying in support of the carnage made it hard to believe that Muslims and Jews could ever have a future of peaceful coexistence.

Overnight, the 2020 Abraham Accords — which raised hopes for recognition and economic relations between the Jewish state and multiple Muslim countries — suddenly seemed like a distant memory.

This bold, courageous project by the first Trump administration gave rise to the prospect of peaceful and prosperous relationships between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan.

Now, the idea of rebooting the Abraham Accords faces an uncertain future.

But nearly 30 years before the Abraham Accords, Jewish-Muslim relations arguably had their finest moment.

In 1991, the Muslim-majority nation of Azerbaijan gained its independence from the Soviet Union, establishing bilateral, strategic, and economic relations with the Jewish state the following year.

Since then, Azerbaijan has worked tirelessly to strengthen relations with Israel, nurturing a relationship — friendship — which serves as a model of what is possible when Jews and Muslims prioritize improving security and quality of life for their people.

That relationship experienced its latest iconic moment during last month’s Eurovision song contest. Israel’s participation in the competition was met with detractors and condemnation by multiple European media outlets and countries such as Spain, Finland and Slovenia.

Azerbaijan was not only publicly supportive of the Jewish state’s participation, but their own representation in the event was a band called "Mamagama," whose members happen to be Azerbaijani Jews.

Israel would go on to finish second in the competition, receiving the most votes by the European public, including Azerbaijan’s citizens voting overwhelmingly for Israeli singer...

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KEYWORDS: armssales; dealerofdeath; israel; sphereofinfluence

[Angelino97]

Israel is helping Muslim Azerbaijan fight Christian Armenia.

Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians.

Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightening offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, officials and experts say..

(Hey, Uncle Miltie, okay if I post this? It seems relevant to this thread.)

[Wuli]

The Azeris have no love for the Mullahs of Tehran, and if they had their way a nice junk of northern Iran would be part of Azerbaijan, as it holds a population with an Azeri majority.

[SaxxonWoods]

As of 2024, approximately 1.809 million Muslims live in Israel, making up about 18% of the country’s population. They are working, voting, going to Mosque, etc.

Let me know when Jews can do the same in Muslim controlled countries.

[Decombobulator]

There’s no love between those countries, each one just finds the other (temporarily) useful.

Azerbaijan gets high tech weaponry from Israel. And Israel gets oil from Azerbaijan, and also uses them as a counterbalance to Iran.