Israeli academics ask Israel: Stop arms sales to Azerbaijan

 Uzay Bulut

Since September 27, Azerbaijan has launched a major offensive against the Armenian Republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, located in the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan has since indiscriminately bombed civilians, with the direct support it receives from Turkey, who recruited jihadists from Syria and elsewhere.

The Israeli government, it seems, continues to sell weapons to Azerbaijan during the height of this war. In an open letter on October 5, a group of academics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem called upon the Israeli government to immediately cease these arms sales. The letter reads, in part:

“From a reading of independent accounts and analysis we have concluded that this outbreak of violence in the last few days is due solely to aggression of the Republic of Azerbaijan, supported by Turkey and backed up by fighters from elsewhere in the region.”

Pashinyan Warns Republican Party of Armenia Planning to Sabotage Prime Minister Election

Opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan late on Monday warned that the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is attempting to sabotage Tuesday’s parliament vote for a new prime minister, which will take place with Pashinyan as the only candidate.
In a Facebook Live broadcast after midnight local time, Pashinyan said that he received information that during a late night meeting led by former prime minister Serzh Sarkisian, the RPA has decided to sabotage the election of a prime minister. The Republican Party had earlier announced that they would not hamper the “election of the people’s candidate,” and also said that they will not put forward their own candidate.