Azerbaijani Diaspora has stated at the Israeli Knesset against the recognition of the so-called "Armenian Genocide".
On Monday, December 26, representatives of the International Association "Israel-Azerbaijan" (AZIZ) Yegana Salman and Arye Gut addressed to the Commission on Education, Culture and Sports of the Israeli Knesset concerning the first public discussion of the possible recognition by Knesset of the tragic events in Turkey as "genocide”
The President of Azerbaijan Cultural Center in Israel, a board member of International Association "Israel-Azerbaijan" Yegana Salman said that the Armenians - citizens of the Ottoman Empire, consisting of the Turkish army to cooperate with opponents of Turkey, with Russia and France, because they were promised help in creation of the state of Armenia in the north-eastern Turkey.
Thus, according to Salman, Armenians were a fifth column in fact acting against their own state.
“In this regard, the Turkish government began to resettle the Armenians from the northeastern region in the center and west of Ottoman Empire. The hundred years pass away and history repeated itself. 200 years ago, Azerbaijan made and gave refuge to the exiled Armenians from Iran. They were settled in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, but then the Armenians began to live freely and prosper in the territory of Azerbaijan. 20 years ago Armenia waged a war of conquest and by and with the direct participation of Russian military forces occupied 20% of Azerbaijani territories, "- said Yegana Salman.
The representative of the Azerbaijani Diaspora said that she could not understand, much less agree with the arguments of some opponents that we, as Jews and Israelis must understand and accept the Armenian genocide. "It is unacceptable and unethical to make such decisions using the current political situation between Israel and Turkey. The tragedy of the people - it's not small change, which is to float in the" right "moment. I think it is immoral and degrading to the people of the Armenian , which is almost a hundred years trying to convince all the forces that, for what you can get benefits and political benefits "- said Salman.
According to Egana Salman, the Armenians are unscrupulous methods to confirm the idea of the so-called genocide. "They use photos of the Jewish Holocaust and represent them as events in Turkey during the First World War. They also use photos of the events in Azerbaijan in the village of Khojaly in 1992, when hundreds of civilians were driven out and destroyed alive for predatory aims of Armenia. Every year they increase the number of the victims of the Armenian people, which of the 500 000 people over the years turned into a half million people. "-said President of Azerbaijan Cultural Center in Israel.
Salman stressed that the Jewish people knew what the Holocaust, and it would be very embarrassing and sad to know that someone has it or not to recognize because of the political situation or the sake of short-term sentiment. "The Jewish people have never adjusted the figures of the Holocaust, never attempted to prove, never resorted to dirty tricks of fraud, and certainly not trying to turn the grief of the people in the political bargaining chip"-summed up Salman.
Speaking at the meeting of the Knesset, the press secretary of the International Association "Israel-Azerbaijan", an expert in the field of international relations Arye Gut, addressing the deputies said that the recognition of so-called "Armenian genocide" is not only undermine, but also will destroy the strained Turkish-Israeli relations. "The Turkish and the Jewish people has a rich 500 year history of the relations and mutual understanding. We must not forget the historical facts. At one time, the Turkish Sultan saved the Jews of Spain from annihilation, presenting them all civil rights. During the Second World War, when European Jews were subjected to terrible and barbarous destruction, Turkey defended and saved the Jews "- said Gut.
On Arye Gut’s opinion, the recognition of the so-called "Armenian genocide" would seriously undermine Israel's relations with Azerbaijan. "Azerbaijan is now a regional leader of the South Caucasus, secular stata that has serious geopolitical and geoeconomic ambitions. During the 20 years we have developed a very strong strategic partnership with Azerbaijan. Today many large-scale Israeli companies are working in Azerbaijan in various fields, such as high technology, telecommunications, oil and gas industry, medicine and agriculture. The trade turnover between the two countries reached nearly $ 4 billion, "said Arye Gut.
Speaking about the strategic importance of Azerbaijan for Israel, an expert in international relations Arye Gut noted that there are 30,000 Jewish community in Azerbaijan. "Last year alone, the Azerbaijani state at his own expense built the two most modern synagogues for the Jewish community, has created the largest Jewish educational center in the South the Caucasus. Show me, another country in the world, Christian or Muslim who built the synagogue for its expense. It proves once again sympathy of the Azerbaijani state and its leadership for the Jewish people and the State of Israel "- said the representative of Azerbaijan Diaspora.
Then Arye Gut addressed the deputies of the Israeli parliament with a very strong statement: "Explain to me for what we have to recognize the so-called" Armenian genocide "?-In order to get compliments from Armenia and Armenians. And you know that Armenia is in fact the only strategic partner of Iran in the South Caucasus. The President of Iran, seeking to wipe Israel off the map, every year visit to Armenia. We have an information that this aggressor state transfers Russian air defense systems to Iran. Dear Knesset members, you don’t understand that these systems will work against us , against State of Israel ", said Arye Gut.
As the grandson of his grandfather, who lost his entire family in the Ukraine, Gut recalled the words of the patriarch of Israeli politics, Israeli President Shimon Peres: "You can not compare the Holocaust of the Jewish people to the tragedy of another people." According to Gut, the Jews in Europe, fascism being destroyed because they were Jews, the Armenians were victims of Armenian irredentist separatist policy and the policy of tsarist Russia,which promised them to build on the territory of the Ottoman state of their own Armenian state, "said Arye Gut.
In concluding the press secretary of the International Association "Israel-Azerbaijan" Arye Gut called the Knesset to think about the true national interests of Israel and not to recognize the "Armenian genocide", under pressure of the Armenian lobby. "We need to think about our national Israel's interest, and not to indulge the desires of the Armenian lobby ", concluded Arye Gut.
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