Azerbaijan’s Oil, Israel’s Bombs: A Partnership in Genocide

Azerbaijan’s Oil, Israel’s Bombs:
A Partnership in Genocide

Azerbaijan powers Israel’s military with oil; Israel arms Azerbaijan to erase Armenians. Together, they’ve franchised genocide

By Vic Gerami

Israel and Azerbaijan are not just allies—they are enablers of each other’s crimes against humanity. Azerbaijan supplies Israel with a massive share of its crude oil, fueling the planes and tanks that devastate Gaza. Israel, in turn, arms Azerbaijan with drones, missiles, and surveillance tech, which Baku has used to massacre 5,000+ Armenians during the Artsakh Genocide (2020-2023).

The parallels are glaring. Artsakh endured a blockade that starved its people of food and medicine, just as Gaza has been strangled for nearly two decades. Civilians in Stepanakert were terrorized by cluster munitions and incendiary weapons, just as Palestinians now face relentless airstrikes. Both aggressors wage propaganda campaigns to brand their victims as terrorists while denying their own crimes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev

This is no coincidence. Israel honed tactics of siege and domination against Palestinians, then exported them to Azerbaijan. In return, Azerbaijan’s oil powers Israel’s assaults. Each sustains the other’s campaign of dispossession.

Israel has long shown hostility toward Armenians—refusing to recognize the Armenian Genocide and arming Azerbaijan even as it ethnically cleansed Artsakh. That silence is not neutrality; it is complicity.

The Armenian and Palestinian struggles are bound by the same weapons, the same blockades, and the same lies. To challenge one without the other is to ignore how genocide is fueled, funded, and franchised.

History will not forgive the enablers. And the victims—from Artsakh to Gaza—will not forget.

Vic Gerami

A noted columnist, Vic Gerami is also a journalist and media contributor who is also publisher and editor of The Blunt Post. His show, 'The Blunt Post with Vic' on Public Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, part of Pacifica Network, launched in 2018. Today reaching national international audiences, Gerami first built a foundation of knowledge and skills by learning the media industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, followed by positions at LA Weekly and Voice Media Group. For the second time, Gerami was selected as a finalist in the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards “Columnist of the Year” category in 2019, having first made the final round of consideration in 2017. His celebrity Q&A column, '10 Questions with Vic', is syndicated internationally. The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 2008 coverage of opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that for years denied same-sex couples in California the freedom to marry. In addition to his years of volunteer work as a leading advocate for marriage equality, later Gerami went on to serve as a Planning Committee member for the historic Resist March in 2017. Vic Gerami is also a founding board member of Equality Armenia. In 2015, Gerami was referenced in the landmark Supreme Court civil rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vic Gerami is a contributor to the LGBTQ San Diego County News, Windy City Times, Montrose Star, DC Life Magazine, Out & About Nashville, Q Virginia, GNI MAG, QNotes, GoWeHo, Asbarez, California Courier, Desert Daily Guide, Armenian Weekly, GED, The Pride LA, IN Magazine, OUT Traveler, The Fight and The Advocate Magazine among others.

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