Israeli Weapons Fuel Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict and Grease Palms of Corrupt Elite - Selected Articles In 20 Brief Posts - 1:30 PM 9/24/2023
Israeli Weapons Fuel Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict and Grease Palms of Corrupt Elite posted at 17:24:35 UTC via richardsilverstein.com Amnesty International graphic on Israeli arms exports It’s common knowledge that Israel is one of the world’s largest arms exporters . As I reported in Jacobin Magazine , it exports to the most genocidal regimes on the planet, and fuels ethnic conflicts from South Sudan to the Phillipines. Less known is the role Israel is playing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In fact, the latter’s largest cargo planes are landing several times a week at an Israeli military air base, loading up on Israeli weapons and ferrying them back to Azerbaijan, sometimes with stops along the way in Turkey, another Azeri military ally. Nor is this a recent development. Israel has been selling advanced weapons systems to the Azeris for years. And the deals haven’t stopped at weapons systems. Because of Azerbaijan strategic location sharing