Recently, as a journalist who writes for Israel Today and as the CEO of the Dona Gracia Center for Diplomacy, I was the only Israeli to attend the Third International Conference on Mine Action: Mitigating Environmental Impact of Landmines, which was hosted by the UN Development Program and ANAMA, the national anti-landmine agency of Azerbaijan, in Zangilan and Baku, Azerbaijan.    For me, this was my second time being the only Israeli to attend this ANAMA/UNDP conference and my fifth trip to the war-torn Karabakh region.

As we speak, Karabakh is one of the most heavily mined regions in the world, containing around 1.5 million landmines and an unknown number of unexploded ordinances throughout the war-torn region, which has emerged from thirty years where Armenia controlled the area in violation of four UN Security Council resolutions.     A few years ago, nothing existed in Karabakh except destroyed homes, burnt agricultural fields, uprooted trees, polluted rivers with no fish, and landmines, ready to detonate at any moment.

Now, the UN delegation together with myself were able to bear witness to the existence of...

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