Posted on 11/18/2022 5:47:34 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The Azerbaijani parliament on Friday announced its historic decision to open an embassy in Israel.
The embassy will be located in Tel Aviv, and will be the first embassy in Israel of a country with a Shi’ite majority and a Shi’ite government.
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said: "I welcome the decision by the National Assembly of Azerbaijan to open an embassy in Israel. Azerbaijan is an important partner of Israel and home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the Muslim world. The decision to open an embassy reflects the depth of the relationship between our countries."
"This move is the result of the Israeli government's efforts to build strong diplomatic bridges with the Muslim world," he added.
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The Abraham Accords are the single greatest advance toward Middle East peace in history. And the media has basically censored all mention of it. If we lived in a halfway just world, Donald Trump would have been granted the Nobel Peace Prize with fanfare and by acclamation.
Big FU to Iran and Biden.
Also, “this is apartheid!”
Better in Jerusalem, but still a plus.
Must be a typo. Secretary of State John Kerry said in 2016 that peace with Israel’s neighbors is impossible before they settle up with the Palestinians.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/full-text-john-kerry-2016-israel-mideast-peace-speech-transcript-233014
F’in idiot
Azerbaijan and Iran are enemies as Iran does like it being an independent country. It was part of Iran pre-Russia, and Iran has millions of ethnic Azerbaijanis that look North to a freer country.
Israel gave Azerbaijan much of its tech for its successful war against Armenia last year.
Israel and Armenia don’t get along as pre-Israel there was a very large Christian Armenian community in the holy land. They were driven out during the formation of the Jewish state.
I’m surprised no one has said it yet.
No Shi’ite, Sherlock!
My friend went to Azerbaijan on a business trip years ago. He said the country was modern, the women wore Western wear, and he felt safer there than in Moscow.
from little acorns...
Thanks Eleutheria5.
(excerpted from a FReepmail)
Iran has bullied Azerbaijan for decades, so, Israel and Azerbaijan have strong ties; Turks and Azerbaijanis are ethnically related, and Erdo doesn’t want Israel and Azerbaijan close. Russia and Turkey both help Azerbaijan (at different levels), but Russia and Armenia are both in the CSTO (at different levels) so Russia backs Armenia, and you’d think would have learned its lesson trying to deal with drones vs tanks.
Turkey’s Erdogan (hate him, or hate him more) has walked a tightrope, selling drones to Ukraine, buying and selling with Russia, getting his way in Syria for years (with the collusion of Putin), and managing other complex alliances and rivalries with his none-too-neighborly neighbors. As I’ve said many times, however bad Erdo is, whoever follows will be worse, and not by a little bit.
“ Israel and Armenia don’t get along as pre-Israel there was a very large Christian Armenian community in the holy land. They were driven out during the formation of the Jewish state.”
Not exactly, and I lived right next to the Armenian Quarter. It is true, the Armenians don’t get along great with Jews, mostly because their patriarchs are firmly anti-Semitic, so much so they refused to become Israeli citizens and opted for Jordanian citizenship with permanent resident status in Israel.
And it is also true that there is a particularly nasty sect of Haredi who live right next to them, who are crappy to everyone, including me and other Zionist. (This sect is firmly anti-Zionist.)
But the reason the Aremenian population shrank so dramatically during the British Period (post war) is the Soviet Union induced something like 90% of the population to leave for Armenia with generous land grants and stipends. (Most were very recent immigrants, fleeing issues elsewhere that swelled the Arementian population from the natural born population of about 3000 to something like 20,000.)
It was these new immigrants who turned around and went home.
Some excerpts (gotta go) from the Azerbaijan keyword, sorted:
Thanks Jb.
Yes. Ignored.
Kushner actually did a good job.
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Azerbaijan_2016.pdf?lang=en
video
The city of #Piranshahr in #Kurdistan /West Azerbaijan province in #Iran has become a real battlefield 18/11/22
https://twitter.com/botinkurdistany/status/1593704081394388992
Ok, it is also encouraging that Israel has by now relations with both, Azeris and Turks.. Not letting outside (Armenian front) conflict effect get in the way. Vital against the mullahcracy GOLIATH.
Timeline of the fall of the Mullahs https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4099233/posts?page=127#127
Right on every point.
It is a halfway just world, but the wrong half.
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