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Ayoob Kara

Ayoob Kara served as Israel’s minister of communications.

IDF Navy soldiers examine dozens of mortar shells and rockets on display, at a military port in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, after being seized from the Panama-flagged KLOS C civilian cargo ship in the Red Sea, and which according to the Israeli military was carrying dozens of advanced rockets from Iran destined for Palestinian militants in Gaza, March 10, 2014. Photo by Yehuda Ben Itach/Flash90.

Iran’s arm shipments threaten the free world

Tehran sends weapons to its proxies, threatening peace and stability everywhere.

April 12, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev on Dec. 13, 2016. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Israel’s ally against antisemitism

Israel remains Azerbaijan’s number one oil importer.

February 27, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin negotiates with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Ukrainian wheat, July 18, 2022. Credit: 42nd Street in Manhattan/Shutterstock.

Peace in the Caucuses is good for the West and bad for Russia

Armenia will finally have a chance to move out of the Russian and Iranian spheres of influence.

February 6, 2024

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his official visit to Serbia in 2017. Credit: Sasa Dzambic Photography/Shutterstock.

Can Azerbaijan once again help mend Turkish-Israeli ties?

It is in the interest of all parties to return to the pre-war rapprochement between Turkey and Israel.

November 2, 2023

Israel's Sorek Desalination Plant on Nov. 22, 2018. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.

Israeli desalination can help the world

Countries around the world are facing acute water shortages and Israel can provide a solution.

September 26, 2023

Paris Olympics 2024. Credit: International Olympic Committee.

Like Russia, the Olympics must restrict Iran

If politics are being brought into sports, the world needs to be consistent.

July 31, 2023

Flags of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Israel near Nariman Narimanov station in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Oct. 6, 2020. Credit: Aykhan Zayedzadeh via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Iran targeted the Israeli embassy in Baku

Iran is trying to make the Azerbaijanis afraid of maintaining their close relations with Israel.

July 17, 2023

Then-President Barack Obama delivers a health-care address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9, 2009. Photo by Lawrence Jackson/White House.

Azerbaijan gets the ‘Israel’ treatment at Congressional event

Watching speaker after speaker slam an ally of the U.S. and Israel raised the question of whether the “Squad” has gone mainstream on the Hill.

June 25, 2023

View of the Heydar mosque in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, situated by the Caspian sea, Oct. 11, 2019. Photo: Nati Shohat/FLASH90

Israel, Russia and peace in the South Caucuses

If Armenia and Azerbaijan make peace, Israel will be a major beneficiary.

June 4, 2023