On Monday in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, between 500 and 600 Azerbaijani Jews marched along the old city of Jaffa, then demonstrated in front of the Armenian Cultural Center and the Armenian Church. They were angry about a recent skirmish on the border, Armenian mortar A chimney killed a 76-year-old Azerbaijani citizen and 12 Azerbaijani infantrymen after intense hostilities over several days in Azerbaijan’s Tovuz region.
Rabbi Shmuel Siman Tov, who addressed the demonstration, said Armenian had killed his brother-in-law and his br, and accused Armenia of participating in illegal conquests, in reference to the Armenian profession of the Nagorno-Karabakh region in violation of 4 UN security measures. Resolutions of the Azerbaijani councils and seven districts: “We call for the Armenian armed forces to withdraw from the Azerbaijani historical lands of Nagorno-Karabakh and the 7 adjacent Azerbaijani regions. Azerbaijan and Israel are united, follow Israel Chai!Azerbaijan Am Chai”.
Israeli political analyst Arye Gut, who organized the demonstration, also spoke out against Karabakh’s profession: “On behalf of Israel’s Azerbaijani Jewish diaspora, I hold that our demonstration by Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani infantry soldiers is certainly peaceful, and we Israelis, immigrants from Azerbaijan, have the right, under Israeli law, to hold demonstrations where we deem it necessary. We do not aim to commit provocations against the Armenian cultural center or against the Armenian church. We are immigrants from Azerbaijan, citizens of Israel, tolerant of all peoples and religions”.
“We only call for Armenia to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions and release Nagorno-Karabakh and 7 adjacent regions of Azerbaijan, which are Azerbaijan’s identified historical and global territory, and that one million Azerbaijani refugees return to their ancestral land,” Gut reiterated.
“Armenia is seeking by all means to ruin relations between Israel and Azerbaijan,” he added. “They cannot do it. Azerbaijan is a true strategic spouse of Israel in the world. Azerbaijan is an example of multiculturalism and tolerance. It is a Jewish network of 25,000 other people in Azerbaijan. On the other hand, Armenia has almost no Jews. There are 50 Jews. ethnicities in Armenia “.
“How can we Israelis react to the monument erected 4 years ago in Yerevan to commemorate Nzhadeh, an anti-Semite and supposedly Nazi accomplice?” Gut asked rhetorically. “The extent of their reminiscence is a reprehensible insult to the reminiscence of those who suffered the Holocaust. For me personally, someone whose grandfather lost his entire circle of relatives in the Nazi border towns in Ukraine, this is emotionally irreparably painful. It is no longer a silent secret, and the ideology of fascism, the glorification of the Armenian fascists and Nazis who worked hard with Nazi Germany, is being promoted to the state point in Armenia. What is even more scandalous is that the fascist ideology called Nzhadehism is included in the curriculum of Armenian educational establishments and that generations are raised on those values. The other Jewish people will never accept the acts of cruelty committed through the 20,000 Armenian legionaries led through Nzhdeh during WWII. Historical documents verify this fact. The objective of the Armenian Legion led through Nzhdeh was to loot houses and destroy the lives of Jews, as well as other people objectionable to the German army. It was thanks to the Armenian Legion that the cities of Simferopol, Yevpatoria, Alushta, Kerch and Feodosia, as well as other parts of Western Crimea, were absolutely purged of Jews. Garagen Nzhdeh is a national hero and has a monument in the center of Yerevan. He was a fascist, but being an Armenian he is a national hero. It doesn’t look like that. “
The head of the House of Azerbaijan in Israel, Shirin Nehamia Michaeli, thanked the compatriots who supported the march: “In the ancient land of Azerbaijan, Judaism, Islam and Christianity coexisted. Today this land continues to show a preference for devout tolerance. Azerbaijanis have lived for centuries and feel like brothers. They are connected through a non-unusual destination and a non-unusual story. “
“And we claim with total duty to the world total and, above all, to the Armenian occupiers that the Armenian-Azerbaijani confrontation in Nagorno-Karabakh is our tragedy and our pain, because facts and justice are on the side of Azerbaijan”, proclaimed. . “In this terrible war opposed to the occupiers, Jews and Azerbaijanis have fought in combination; we have lived, rejoiced and fought in combination. We, immigrants from Azerbaijan, are proud of the fact that in this war opposed to the Armenian invaders, one of the first national heroes of an independent Azerbaijan was our brother Albert Agarunov, who has become a symbol of courage and brotherhood for the Azerbaijani and Jewish peoples . . »
Firidun, who attended the demonstration, said he joined the demonstration because Armenia illegally occupied Azerbaijani lands: “We need our lands back so that refugees can return to their homes. Due to the profession of Nagorno-Karabakh, one million Azerbaijani citizens are refugees. This leaves many other people homeless. But the worst part is that they’re looking to take more land. From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, they need everything. Baruck Idano agreed with Firidun and emphasized that Armenia has caused a major disaster and that Karabakh is the land of Azerbaijan.
Mari Rjanorosky, some other protester, added; “On 25 and 6 February 1992, the Armenian armed forces committed an act of genocide opposite the others of the Azerbaijani city of Khojaly. A staggering 613 people were killed, another 487 paralyzed and 1,275 elderly, women and young people were captured and subjected to torture and humiliation. Civilians who controlled to escape were brutally killed in the forest through the Armenian army. Khojaly’s civilian population was massacred for being Azerbaijanis. This barbaric cruelty to innocent young people, women and the elderly has no explanation. This is not the tragedy of a generation, but also one of the worst crimes in human history, because they were murdered on a bloodless night, but unfortunately, as recent occasions show, the challenge still exists. Azerbaijan is under occupation. We need the foreign network to do anything and ask for justice for Azerbaijan. “
Throughout the demonstration, protesters chanted: “Stop Armenian aggression against Karabakh”, “Stop the Armenian occupation”, “Karabakh is an ancient component of Azerbaijan”, “Karabakh, Karabakh is Azerbaijan”, “This is our Karabakh” and “Israel respects Azerbaijan”. They also held posters proclaiming: “Nazi anti-Semitic General Garagin Nzhdeh is a disgrace that desecrates the reminiscence of those who suffered the Holocaust”, “Stop Armenian aggression: don’t forget the young people of Khojaly”, “Stop Armenian terrorism opposed to Azerbaijan, “The State of Israel fully respects the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”, “I come from Azerbaijan and 20% of my country is occupied through Armenia “and “Justice for Khojaly”. Israeli and Azerbaijani flags were waved through everyone in crowds, while some components also waved Turkish flags.
In a musical war, azerbaijani Jewish network lashed out at nationalist music in Turkish Azeri, making more noise than a small organization of Armenian counter-supporters. The counter-combatants barricaded themselves on the internal balcony of the Armenian Cultural Center, waving Armenian flags. and listening to Armenian music. However, his music and messages were so drowned through the strong music of the Azerbaijani Jewish network in Turkish Azeri, accompanied by colorful chants and howls of “boo” that in the end they came out of the balcony and entered the cultural center of frustration. As he left, among the crowd he threatened even larger long-term demonstrations if the Armenians did not convey their message of discontent to Yerevan.
In an exclusive interview, Gut noted that it is to point out that these recent acts of violence along the Azerbaijan-Armenian border took place about three hundred kilometers from the Nagorno-Karabakh region and “adjacent to 7 occupied regions of Azerbaijan”. Armenia. While previous Armenian regimes attempted choir from provocation at the non-unusual border of countries, Armenia’s existing regime was in an absolutely different direction».
“Why did the Yerevan officer take the decision to launch an army adventure on the state border, rather than in the occupied nagorno-Karabakh region?” asked Gut. “Several points would possibly be the transfer of the theater of operations of the band lines to Karabakh to the state border. First, a year ago, azerbaijan’s government decided to move oversight of the Armenian border from the Ministry of Defence to state border services. This resolution provoked a hysterical panic in Armenia, where they wanted it to border to remain in the prestige of a war zone, which would allow the Armenian armed forces to silently advance their positions in azerbaijani territories.
“Second, from the first days of his coming to power, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan began to address the main demands of his strategic ally, Russia, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),” he noted. “With the recklessness of its army, Armenia pursues the objective of attracting military-political organizations, of which it is a part, in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in order to evade the duty of profession and aggression against Azerbaijan. Aggression against Azerbaijan for just over 30 years and occasional provocations along the border also contravene the legal documents of the military and political organizations of which Armenia is a member. However, Armenia has made it clear that the army’s operations in Karabakh is under the internal affairs of Azerbaijan and is not within the obligations of the allies. Neither Russia nor the CSTO supported Armenia’s action and did not condemn Azerbaijan. They called on the parties to stop and put an end to hostilities. Location along the border with Azerbaijan is further proof that the Yerevan official is not interested in a negotiated settlement on the conf Armenian-Azerbaijani licto ‘.
“In doing so, Armenian leaders seek to aggravate the situation, in the context of additional socio-economic unrest over the widespread nature of COVID-19 in Armenia,” Gut said. “Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic, Armenia has many national economies such as power outages, a deep economic crisis, a 30% unemployment rate and a poverty rate of 50%. In other words, by provoking army hostilities on the border with Azerbaijan, the current Armenian Prime Minister has tried to maintain his strength, diverting the attention of his people from the internalArray, some of whom have greatly intensified through the coronavirus pandemic.
For these reasons, Gut claimed that the Azerbaijani Jewish network had to demonstrate en masse in Tel Aviv, despite the risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic: “We are Jews from Azerbaijan, and we are protesting against Armenian provocations and in favor of Azerbaijan, this is another from the United States and other parts of the world, where Armenian protesters basically clashed with Azerbaijani Muslim protesters , if there were no policemen, they would have attacked us, as they did in Los Angeles and elsewhere. cops so they just don’t provoke. I looked for a nonviolent demonstration. A war of music, culture and our demands against Armenia, not a war of soldiers.
Clearly, it turns out that Azerbaijan won the war of music, as many passing cars honked their horns in solidarity with Azerbaijan. The demonstration ended with the crowd betting on the national anthems of Israel and Azerbaijan.
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