Israel’s Armenian community urges government to stop arms sales to Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, MARCH 18, ARMENPRESS. The Union of the Armenian Communities in Israel organized ademonstration on Tuesday to protestElbit Systems, an internationaldefense electronicscompany thatmanufacturesweapons supplied to Azerbaijan, Asbarez reports.

Israel supplies 60 percent of the Azerbaijani military’s armaments, including drones and deadly cluster bombs, which are banned byclose to 100 nations. During the war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Azerbaijan used Israeli weapons to attack innocent civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, and to bomb hospitals and churches.

Presently, Israel’s defense industryis in the process of negotiating yet another arms deal with Azerbaijan, andIsrael’s Armenian community cannot be indifferent to this.

On Tuesday, Israel’s Armenian community gathered outside of Elbit Systemsto demandthat the Israeli government stop supplying weapons to Azerbaijan’s authoritarian regime, and reminding them that,with its growing Islamic fundamentalisms and intolerance towards national minorities, Azerbaijan is an unreliable ally for Israel itself.