Regrettably, some Israeli Jews believe that there exists a hierarchy of victimhood atop which their ethno-national and religious group sits, which is why they dishonestly blame Poles for the Holocaust in order to uphold this false perception that some have exploited to demand socio-economic and political privileges.
"...some Israeli Jews believe that there exists a hierarchy of victimhood atop which their ethno-national and religious group sits..."
No, you don't say!
"...they dishonestly blame Poles for the Holocaust in order to uphold this false perception that some have exploited to demand socio-cultural and political privileges."
So good to see recognition: I was beginning to think it might just be me. (NOT!)
Kudos to you, Mr Korybko, for so bravely sticking your head above the parapet. If you replace, 'that some have exploited' with ', which they exploit increasingly' you would be absolutely spot on. I think you could drop the adjectives, 'socio-cultural and political', and the plural for 'privilege', and it would be even more accurate. But, hey, 'perfect is the worst enemy of good enough' and what you've done is better than good enough — just right. Putin should be looking to take a leaf out of your book here — kudos indeed!
"His compatriots, co-ethnics, and co-religionists should condemn this..."
True, but not for the reasons you state, e.g. "whitewashing the Nazis", etc. It is wrong, a lie and therefore should be regarded and related to for what it is — not good, but the opposite of good, which is bad — not healthy or constructive, supporting and promoting better welfare and life, but the opposite — unhealthy, destructive, instilling disease, creating breakdown and leading to death.
The Ziofascist Arendars who had colonised vast swathes of Ukraine as feudatories of Imperial Poland and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth after flocking to Poland to escape popular backlash against usurists in England, France, Spain and Czechia, at the beginning of the 2nd millenium CE, went on to establish the most hideous and tyrranical model of feudalist exploitation of the masses in entire Europe. These Arendar "businessmen" as they were called, "ruled" like despotic Lords and Earls over millions of Slavic Ukrainians in lands conquered by Poland, and reduced the latter to a state of abject exploitation and poverty more wretched than that of the African slaves who were being supplied all over western Europe and South America by Sephardic slave trading families based in Portugal. These Arendar businessmen became the vanguard of the Polish-Lithuanian Inquisition, in which Baltic and Polish conquistadors depopulated entire counties in the western one fourth of Ukraine by literally burning the populations on stakes as ostensible part of an Inquisition for forcible conversion of the populace to Catholic faith. In return, the Polish state promised to place entire platoons of the royal army at the disposal of the Ziofascist Arendar "businessmen", for harshly quelling any dissidence among the serfs beneath their stick, with unmatched ruthlessness. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians perished from the strain and ardour of forced labour beyond their capacity, which the Arendars had subjected them to as a matter of routine. One of the mercenaries who had played a crucial part in the NATO conquest of Libya in the 2010's, was an Israeli, a Mossad agent named Benjamin Efraim, who feigned Islamic disguise and had risen to the rank of commander in a terrorist Al Qaeda contingent. He had butchered hundreds of civilian Libyan captives in cold blood on charge of being government agents. When asked why he stooped to such cruelty in the name of Islam when he was not a Muslim in the first place but a practising Jew, he replied that the victims being Muslims and Arabs were savage beings anyway who did not deserve human previliges in his religious opinion. It was exactly with such superlative scorn for the Russian civilisation that the Ziofascist duo of Matvei Berman and Heinrich Yegoda, inventors of the Gulag and aristocratic confidates of defacto dictator Lavrenti Beria who wanted to carve out Greater Israel from Baku to Odessa on Eurasian soil, had rounded up hundreds of thousands of innocent Russian daily wagers from Moscow and St Petersberg on flimsy pretext of not being in physical possession of proper documents on their person (internal passport) and herded them to the notoriously inhospitable Nazino labour camp in Omsk oblast, a veritable cannibal island infamous for forced starvation and sexual abuse ala modern day Zio-oligarchic Survivors Reality TV show. It is in tune with such a mindset that the Zelensky regime orchestrated a false flag attack on a children's hospital in Ukraine, and bombed residential high rise apartments in Kazan with the same high explosive firebombs routinely used by Israel in Gaza. Likewise, the Ziofascist Arendars who literally ruled over Ukraine for hundreds of years, had dehumanised the Slavic natives to such an extent in their pseudo-religious reckoning that any atrocity wreaked on the latter did not count as sin to their minds. The record of that Ziofascist holocaust of Slavs has survived in the collective memory of the Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian nation to this day, despite the undoubted paucity of written records attesting to this circumstance for the simple reason that the Ziofascist Arendars were very intolerant of anyone from among their serfs aspiring to pursue a career of erudition which was deemed detrimental to the feudalistic hierarchy, which is why there were very few scribes among Ukrainians those days. It was kind of like Iraq post its conquest by the Pentagon in the 2000's, when American soldiers would barge into Iraqi homes in the dead of night, pull up sleeping males by the collar and fling them onto the ground, place their knees upon the chest of the victims and ask brusquely whether the latter had any "anti-American propaganda literature" in their possession in the event of which those folks would be taken away, never to be seen again
Zelensky believes himself to be a direct descendant and legacy beaerer of the medieval Ziofascist Arendar aliens who ruled over much of Ukraine, and it is in that spirit that he has banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the latter's very own cradle. Taking a cue from Israeli "Nakba" of forcible expulsion of Muslims, the Council of Europe has branded the Russian Orthodox Church as enemy agent, and the EU high command has embarked on a spree of expulsion of Orthodox priests.
Khmelnitsky and Kolicizisna do not qualify any more as "holocaust" than the French revolution does, going by the same token of reasoning by which the Bolshevik revolution does not qualify as a "genocide of Slavs by Jewish outsiders" . They were popular reactions against an intolerably repressive feudal order established by aliens. The Arendars, who were aliens that had barged into Ukraine from places so very distant as Norse Northumbria in British Isles, treated Ukrainian natives like beasts of burden and subjected them to such indignities as forcing those serfs to carry the Arendar Ziofascist Lords around on their shoulders in palanquins or otherwise, because the Arendars deemed it inauspicious to tread on the "accursed" heathen soil of Ukraine.
Yes, this is all true, which is why it's so very difficult to consider it just water under the bridge. The problem is, doing anything else is dangerously likely to inspire hatred, which would then put both sides on the wrong side — on the side of hatred.
Bear in mind WHY the Russians are winning: because they are fighting a defensive war. It was the Americans (and whoever else might gain by hidden means) who attacked Russia by provocation, removing all options until attack was the only one left. If they are inspired by hatred, they will become no better than the hidden aggressors they are defending themselves from. Please don't try to, and try not to, inspire hatred.
Precisely. Hatred is the very antithesis of humane civilisation, for it is the seed from which all greater evil springs forth. Brilliant, Douche!
Hatred is what the closet Ziomaniac undercover Senyarim CJ Weleman is inspiring, when he craftily writes half-truths on Zio-oligarchic social media insinuating that Hindu labourers from India have descended in droves upon Israel with the malicious motive of dispossessing Muslim Palestinians in deference to a conspiracy between the political establishments of India and Israel, by demolishing ancestral homes of Palestinians in the West Bank and building homes for Jewish settlers upon the formers' debris. What CJ Werleman is hiding from his readers and audience is the fact that expat labourers do not have any say in the jobs they are assigned by contractors who hire them, and in Israel, the corpocratic law does not leave any scope for expat labourers, whether from India or from Africa for that matter, to jump employment in protest of any sort and to switch roles to say those of a farmer in the countryside in the event they happen to be unhappy with their present jobs of say construction site workers. An internal passport kind of system in force in Israel restricts mobility of expatriate workforce which possesses zero leeway in this regard. Having said that, there is zero evidence till date in the public domain of any Indian labourer having wilfully participated in any putative "settler colonisation of Palestinian lands" as so vehemently lamented with crocodile tears by CJ Werleman. Apparently, CJ Werleman wants to spark a crisis of broader conflict in Arab countries by inciting their impressionable populace to vengeful violence against the hundreds of thousands of Indian labourers who reside therein. The despicable tendency to victimise the most defenceless and largely apolitical sections of mankind, is undeniably one of the most hideous of human traits. The malafide charge levelled against Indian labourers, had earlier also been wrongly made against Falasha labourers who are Jews of Ethiopian origin, as closet Mossadist propagandists sought to scapegoat innocent bogeymen for Israel's transgressions, by handpicking them from amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless sections of Israeli as well as expat labourer societies. What is intriguing is that any strong critique of the likes of CJ Werleman and Amy Goodman, who feign displeasure at Israel as part of a larger covert agenda directed at other victims, elicits vociferous rebuttals from the anti-Semetism brigade, as if daring to challenge narratives espoused by someone who is himself overtly critical of Israel in an ostensibly hate-charged fashion, will qualify as anti-Semetism provided the person challenged in this manner hails from the "tribe" irrespective of his ideological leaning. It is very pertinent to note that very recently, CJ Werleman has gone so far as to taunt and tease Iran for not being sincere in its solidarity with Palestinians, by "accusing" Iran of chickenry and lip-service in "not having killed a single Israeli soldier till date". It is almost as if CJ Werleman is exhorting Iranians to kill Israelis, but the paradox is that the anti-Semetism cry brigade has his back !
It is in the same spirit that staunch Ziofascists oppose all condemnation of the kingpins of transAtlantic Slave trade, which incidentally is the first major holocaust of the 2nd millenium, namely the Portugal and Martnique-based Sephardic don families of Jimenez, Noronha, Fernandes, Rodrigues, Pallos Dias, Cabarello and Cardello lineages, most notably Antonio Fernandes de Elvas and Manuel Rodriguez Lameno; and collectively brand all such condemnation as anti-Semetism. Instead of calling out the undisguised black sheep from amongst their ilk, Ziofascists show a tendency to disincentivate any honest appraisal of their misdeeds by weaponising the hoarse cry of anti-Semetism. It is in this obnoxious spirit that Rabbi Pinkass GoldSmith has read too much in President Putin's innocuous jibe at vandals who are destroying the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Whereas Mr Putin had emphasised that the conspiracy to destroy Orthodox church and persecute its followers hatched by Zelensky and his henchmen should not be allowed to blow into an excuse for sectarian strife, because those involved in such hideous acts were not being sincere to the tenets of any faith, let alone Judaism ; on the other hand, Rabbi Pinkass GoldSmith capitalised on this well-meaning statement as an opportunity to foment the very same strife and hatred which President Putin had been entreating his countrymen not to succumb to, by dishonestly spinning an entirely opposite angle of a civilisational attack on Judaism to rake up controversy. Pincharse's rants about his bad time in Russia become all the more reprehensible when one remembers that it were his Ziofascist comrades Matvei Berman and Heinrich Yegoda who had been running the entire show of genociding hundreds of thousands of rank and file Slavic Russians from poverty stricken Labour class backgrounds in Siberian gulags at the time he is alluding to, as part of a project for fomenting massive internal discord and dissaffection towards the nation in Russian society chalked out by Lavrentiy Beria who was architect of a plan to carve out Greater Israel from Baku to Odessa. When, by a sudden turn or quirk of fate, destiny turned the tables on those two monsters Berman and Yegoda and they eventually fell foul of Stalin's favour and got purged, it was only to be expected of the usual suspects to cry anti-Semetism as if by a reflex, but this solidarity from the "tribe" does not make the devilish character of those two monsters any nobler.
Just one little caveat: hatred hasn't evolved as a part of (human) emotion and behaviour for no good reason. It's not totally worthless and despicable, nor is its existence only to counterbalance or highlight love. It exists in its own right for a damn good reason — it IS sometimes necessary. That's not to justify Pincharse, but it should help to understand how the justification of hatred is used. The question is probably more about why, rather than who, you believe it's OK to hate. But then you get into justification, reeling off facts and lose your head up your own arse, so... Probably best just to keep away; as often and for as long as you can, in any case.
Following up on Jews in Medieval France, Louis VIII's successor, St. Louis IX, was influenced by the convert, Br. Nicholas Donin OP, and by the Dominicans, to host a "disputation" in Paris, in which the rabbis were obliged to answer accusations concerning scandalous and sacrilegious material in the Talmud. In the aftermath, the French raided synagogues and Yeshivas, and ~1,000s of copies of the Talmud, and related texts, were burned in Paris. St. Louis would eventually expel the Jews from France.
The Sephardics were not based in Portugal. Portugal expelled them not long after the Spaniards did so. Many of the slave-ship owners were based in Newport, in the British colony of New Hampshire.
In England, King Edward I did not expel Jews on account of any sort of religious dispute. In France, it would seem religion played a greater role. The reign of King Louis VIII coincided with the early proselytizing efforts of two Jewish converts, Dominicans Pablo Christiani, and Nicholas Donin, which were supported by the 2nd Dominican Superior General, St. Raymond de Peñafort. While I am still researching further details, it is likely that the Dominicans may have influenced Louis VIII's Queen, St. Catherine of Aragonne.
Prior to the reign of King Louis VIII, the Kingdom of France had actually conferred certain commercial privileges to the Jews (perhaps as a consolation for other restrictions). King Louis began to rescind some of these privileges during his reign, particularly the activity of Jewish money lenders. While his motives are not entirely clear to me, these changes coincided with the Templar dispensation. Inasmuch as the Church had dispensed the Knights Templars from the prohibition against extracting interest on debts, in King Louis VIII's time, society in Europe would have deemed it more patriotic, and more Christian, to borrow from the Templar Order, rather than from a Jew. Nevertheless, King Louis VIII's restrictions on French Jews went beyond merely rescinding commercial privileges, and suppressing usury.
My Father was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp. After WWII, in 1974 Kohl and Gierek signed an agreement to provide financial compensation to victims of the Holocaust and victims of WWII. We went to Jewish Community in Warsaw to claim such compensation. The secretary told us that there were and too many Holocaust survivors, nothing was left for my Father. We returned in 1978, we received the same answer. Jews in the US and Israhell saying that 6,000,000 Jews died. I went to Encyclopaedia Judaica, and this book states that 4,700,000 were killed in WWII. This explains why my Father did not receive any compensation.
The 6 Million figure is invented because the Soviets knew Poles would not shed a tear for the murdered Jews*. So they offset 3 Million murdered Polish Jews with equivalent number of non-Jewish Poles. Sure, there were members of Polish intelligentsia murdered in concentration camps, and there were lots of civilian losses in Polish population, particularly during the destruction of Warsaw in August/October 1944. But it were never 3Mio, lol. What happened instead is that lots of Polish workers were moved to Germany to replace Germans fighting in the Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS, and after 1945, these stayed in Germany or moved on to the USA, Canada, UK or Australia. Almost all the Germans who had Polish passports before 1939 moved West, and even some Poles who acquired German passports after 1939 moved West too.
Then there were tons of Ukranians and Belorussians who resettled in Soviet Union or in the West after 1945. The grandparents of the just dismissed Canadian deputy PM and finance minister Chrystia Freeland come to mind here. OK, her grandfather Michailo Chomiak came from W Ukraine, but he actually worked in Cracow during the war. All of this explains the demographic changes Poland experienced in its non-Jewish population 1939-1948.
* For example, Polish resistance didn't do much about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Polish resistance was spoon-fed by the British with weapons but none of that made its way into the Warsaw Ghetto. OK, some Jews were hidden away, but many more were released to the German forces. The situation in the Soviet Union itself was no different. This is the reason that between 1945 and 1989 an ethno-religious breakdown was studiously avoided by the various Soviet governments. Otherwise, most non-Jewish voices from the Soviet population would not have empathized, but would instead said - well, there was one good thing about the Germans. It was the same all over the Eastern Block. You can easily verify it, by looking through the Osvobozhdeniye film series of early 1970s.
Please note - this was just for home consumption. To the West, Soviet Union and Eastern Block as a whole had no problem releasing the actual figures. So Soviets obviously helped during the Nuremberg trials, and Eastern Block countries helped Israel with evidence during the Eichmann trial. Moreover, Soviet Union helped prevent a UN SC censure of Israel for capturing Eichmann in Argentia. And not to forget: the famous Andrey Gromyko's speach at the UN in May 1947, where he outflanked the USA on supporting the establishment of the state of Israel.
No one wrote about anyone killing six million Jews before WWII. As Tsars [Ed.] Alexander III, and Nicholas II imposed increasingly restrictive Jewish policies, however, some Jewish-owned outlets in western countries wrote that Russia was abusing and endangering Jews
After the 2nd Partition of Poland, Russia really did have more than four million Jews, perhaps more than five million.
During and after WW1 the concern was about 6Mio Jews in Poland and East of it at risk. This is very different from 6Mio upper bound of murdered Jews till May 1945. The latter data also align with the Korherr report to Heinrich Himmler in March 1943 where his chief statistician submitted a number of at least 2.4Mio murdered Jews till then.
I read through several such articles.a few years ago. I only noticed that such Jewish outlets claimed Jews were endangered under the Tsars. Of course, real massacres of those times were also reported.
There were claims that millions of Jews in Russian territory were ~ in danger of death ~ sometimes couched in very sensational language, however, not claims that the authorities were literally killing millions of Jews.
" not claims that the authorities were literally killing millions of Jews. "
Of course there weren't millions dead, thats my point. The " six million" figure hold some sort of importance to the "happy merchants" and now we live under its brutal tyranny.
Andrew is mostly correct, but while not directly addressed by Andrew, it must be pointed out that the misfortune that Poles (& others) experienced at the hands of the Germans is fundamentally different from the Jewish experience. Wherever the Germans went in the 40s they found some good Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Frenchmen, etc. They never found good Jews and in fact the policy of the German state was to murder any they came across.
So, does this imply a hierarchy of victimhood?
I think it does, but on the other hand I think that Jews alive today are not entitled to victimhood status any more than Germans alive today deserve victimizer status.
The forgoing does not address the entirely valid point that Jews instrumentalize antisemitism for political gain, or the equally valid point that Jew hatred is a real and persistent phenomenon.
As usual, Andrew provides thought provoking content.
It's not about victimhood status. Victimhood status is nonsense. It's about the probability of being a future victim. There history does teach that if one is repeatedly victim, the probability of being future victim is sky-high.
The following comments are for informational purposes, and are not, in any sense, intended as justifications for crimes and abuses perpetrated by extremist elements in Ukraine, c. 1941-to-present.
Prior to the partitions of Poland, the poverty of the peasantry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the worst on the entire continent. It is likely that the situation in predominantly Orthodox Christian areas was even worse, however, these circumstances simultaneously affected (Catholic) Hungarians where Poles encroached into Hungarian territory.
It may accurately be said that religion played some part in subsequent developments in the former Eastern territories of imperial Poland. As Russia annexed more and more eastern Polish territories, however, the populace regarded Jews as collaborators with the old Polish and Lithuanian nobles. [Ed.] Notwithstanding conventional historians emphatic representations of subsequent reprisals as "religious persecution," reprisals against Jews in the region had more of an economic, than a religious, motive, c.f. Senator Gavril Derzhavin's report to the Court of Tsar Alexander II.
The music which western moralists have been singing about Assad government's moral obligation to devolve power by accomodating jihadist insurgents in some sort of confederacy arrangement, is not new or unique to Syria. About a decade ago, the most loyal and diffident mouthpiece of the Pentagon on earth, Mikhail Gorbachev, had said similar things while sermonising President Putin. Gorbachev had said that Mr Putin has misused loopholes in the Constitution for assuming autocratic powers, and that civil unrest against the government as exemplified by protests at Bolotnya Square and Sakharova will spread to every square and protestors will pitch up tents everywhere unless Putin addresses their grievances with political reforms, because those protests have galvanised society as a whole for the better.
Today, in hindsight, Gorbachev is known to be the person who dismembered the Soviet Union using his despotic powers and refused to return Crimea to Russia where it belonged, without caring the least to respect the collective will of the people as would have been evident from a referendum. Moreover, he fooled his country and initiated the destruction and decomissioning of two thirds of Russia's strategic nuclear arsenal, without securing commensurate arrangements from the adversary USA which only decommissioned its warheads but preserved them on standby for later use. Whether this man was even worthy of the trust of Russia, let alone the despotic powers he wielded in his capacity as an enemy mole, is anybody's guess !
But if there were any doubts about the hostile intentions towards both Russia and Syria on part of the western purveyors of the "dialogue and devolution" doctrine which the USA and EU had doggedly been pressing Mr Lavrov to market in Syria, all such doubts are now finally dispelled by the official announcement made the other day by the Estonian-born High Representative of EU for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas. She has formally announced that the European Union is laying down caveat of expulsion of all Russian military bases from Syrian soil as a precondition for Syria's new rulers to be admitted into the "international" fold and the lifting of European sanctions on Syria. She has further stated that the EU regards Russian bases in Syria a security hazard and threat (to European hegemony, of course, my emphasis) to European interests in Africa. Things have now become crystal clear, but there can be no convincing the die-hard sceptics. It is plain obvious that Kaja Kallas has made a tacit endorsement of the illegal American and Israeli occupation of Syria while bemoaning the Russian military presence, because the EU regards Israel as a partner-in-arms in respect of the EuroMerican ravages across the globe.
Now, Georgia Melonie of Italy who has sent Italian mercenary troops to fight against Russians in Kursk, is raking up much the same anti-Russian hysteria.
Palki Sharma Upadhyaye, die-hard Israel-afficionado and anchor-in-chief of FirstPost owned by Network 18 chaired by Adil Zainulbhai, is the most vitriolic anti-Putin disinformation monger in South Asia. She dabbles in fantasizing about sexual escapades of President Putin, extolls the Zelensky regime's diabolical machinations for pressurizing Indians to enlist with Ukrainian militias, and indulges in wholesale racist sexual slander of North Koreans and character assassination of consorts of foreign leaders. Incidentally, her husband is a hard core Modi-hater as well.
Plenty of western politicians spoke of literally ousting Ba'athists in Syria, however, I never read of any Western program of confederation. A confederation would have been problematic for the West, inasmuch as their Kurdish allies barely comprised 7% of the total population in the 2007 census, and their designs of a Kurdish hegemony implied an undemocratic power structure, without majority support, or public credibility.
I certainly do remember how, during one of the negotiations in Astana, c. 2016 /2017, the Russian delegation made a proposal to resolve the conflict by implementing a confederated political order.
Courtesy Zelensky and the Azov conscription mafia, the worst gory days are back in Ukraine, reminiscent of the medieval Arendar Earls and Lords, and of the 20 th century Ziofascist Matvei Berman the inventor of Gulags who had huddled hundreds of thousands of Slavic women picked up from the streets of Moscow for defying Greater Israel architect Lavrenti Beria's demands for sexual favours, to Reality TV style Jailhouse Nazino "cannibal" island in Omsk where thugs deputed by Beria and Berman sliced off the breasts and calves of those women and baked up the amputated flesh like sausages.
While the Poles, as a collective, are definitely to be blamed for the Holocaust, the Israelis, as a collective (their own polls are showing it) are guilty of the present genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing and apartheid in West Bank... Heck, the ICC and ICJ and HRW, and Amnesty International have put the finger on the scale and decided that yup, Israel is a genocidaire...
"...some Israeli Jews believe that there exists a hierarchy of victimhood atop which their ethno-national and religious group sits..."
No, you don't say!
"...they dishonestly blame Poles for the Holocaust in order to uphold this false perception that some have exploited to demand socio-cultural and political privileges."
So good to see recognition: I was beginning to think it might just be me. (NOT!)
Kudos to you, Mr Korybko, for so bravely sticking your head above the parapet. If you replace, 'that some have exploited' with ', which they exploit increasingly' you would be absolutely spot on. I think you could drop the adjectives, 'socio-cultural and political', and the plural for 'privilege', and it would be even more accurate. But, hey, 'perfect is the worst enemy of good enough' and what you've done is better than good enough — just right. Putin should be looking to take a leaf out of your book here — kudos indeed!
"His compatriots, co-ethnics, and co-religionists should condemn this..."
True, but not for the reasons you state, e.g. "whitewashing the Nazis", etc. It is wrong, a lie and therefore should be regarded and related to for what it is — not good, but the opposite of good, which is bad — not healthy or constructive, supporting and promoting better welfare and life, but the opposite — unhealthy, destructive, instilling disease, creating breakdown and leading to death.
"Israeli Activist Arsen Ostrovsky Is Wrong To Collectively Blame Poles For The Holocaust"
He is NOT "wrong"; he is dishonest.
The Ziofascist Arendars who had colonised vast swathes of Ukraine as feudatories of Imperial Poland and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth after flocking to Poland to escape popular backlash against usurists in England, France, Spain and Czechia, at the beginning of the 2nd millenium CE, went on to establish the most hideous and tyrranical model of feudalist exploitation of the masses in entire Europe. These Arendar "businessmen" as they were called, "ruled" like despotic Lords and Earls over millions of Slavic Ukrainians in lands conquered by Poland, and reduced the latter to a state of abject exploitation and poverty more wretched than that of the African slaves who were being supplied all over western Europe and South America by Sephardic slave trading families based in Portugal. These Arendar businessmen became the vanguard of the Polish-Lithuanian Inquisition, in which Baltic and Polish conquistadors depopulated entire counties in the western one fourth of Ukraine by literally burning the populations on stakes as ostensible part of an Inquisition for forcible conversion of the populace to Catholic faith. In return, the Polish state promised to place entire platoons of the royal army at the disposal of the Ziofascist Arendar "businessmen", for harshly quelling any dissidence among the serfs beneath their stick, with unmatched ruthlessness. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians perished from the strain and ardour of forced labour beyond their capacity, which the Arendars had subjected them to as a matter of routine. One of the mercenaries who had played a crucial part in the NATO conquest of Libya in the 2010's, was an Israeli, a Mossad agent named Benjamin Efraim, who feigned Islamic disguise and had risen to the rank of commander in a terrorist Al Qaeda contingent. He had butchered hundreds of civilian Libyan captives in cold blood on charge of being government agents. When asked why he stooped to such cruelty in the name of Islam when he was not a Muslim in the first place but a practising Jew, he replied that the victims being Muslims and Arabs were savage beings anyway who did not deserve human previliges in his religious opinion. It was exactly with such superlative scorn for the Russian civilisation that the Ziofascist duo of Matvei Berman and Heinrich Yegoda, inventors of the Gulag and aristocratic confidates of defacto dictator Lavrenti Beria who wanted to carve out Greater Israel from Baku to Odessa on Eurasian soil, had rounded up hundreds of thousands of innocent Russian daily wagers from Moscow and St Petersberg on flimsy pretext of not being in physical possession of proper documents on their person (internal passport) and herded them to the notoriously inhospitable Nazino labour camp in Omsk oblast, a veritable cannibal island infamous for forced starvation and sexual abuse ala modern day Zio-oligarchic Survivors Reality TV show. It is in tune with such a mindset that the Zelensky regime orchestrated a false flag attack on a children's hospital in Ukraine, and bombed residential high rise apartments in Kazan with the same high explosive firebombs routinely used by Israel in Gaza. Likewise, the Ziofascist Arendars who literally ruled over Ukraine for hundreds of years, had dehumanised the Slavic natives to such an extent in their pseudo-religious reckoning that any atrocity wreaked on the latter did not count as sin to their minds. The record of that Ziofascist holocaust of Slavs has survived in the collective memory of the Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian nation to this day, despite the undoubted paucity of written records attesting to this circumstance for the simple reason that the Ziofascist Arendars were very intolerant of anyone from among their serfs aspiring to pursue a career of erudition which was deemed detrimental to the feudalistic hierarchy, which is why there were very few scribes among Ukrainians those days. It was kind of like Iraq post its conquest by the Pentagon in the 2000's, when American soldiers would barge into Iraqi homes in the dead of night, pull up sleeping males by the collar and fling them onto the ground, place their knees upon the chest of the victims and ask brusquely whether the latter had any "anti-American propaganda literature" in their possession in the event of which those folks would be taken away, never to be seen again
Zelensky believes himself to be a direct descendant and legacy beaerer of the medieval Ziofascist Arendar aliens who ruled over much of Ukraine, and it is in that spirit that he has banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the latter's very own cradle. Taking a cue from Israeli "Nakba" of forcible expulsion of Muslims, the Council of Europe has branded the Russian Orthodox Church as enemy agent, and the EU high command has embarked on a spree of expulsion of Orthodox priests.
Khmelnitsky and Kolicizisna do not qualify any more as "holocaust" than the French revolution does, going by the same token of reasoning by which the Bolshevik revolution does not qualify as a "genocide of Slavs by Jewish outsiders" . They were popular reactions against an intolerably repressive feudal order established by aliens. The Arendars, who were aliens that had barged into Ukraine from places so very distant as Norse Northumbria in British Isles, treated Ukrainian natives like beasts of burden and subjected them to such indignities as forcing those serfs to carry the Arendar Ziofascist Lords around on their shoulders in palanquins or otherwise, because the Arendars deemed it inauspicious to tread on the "accursed" heathen soil of Ukraine.
Yes, this is all true, which is why it's so very difficult to consider it just water under the bridge. The problem is, doing anything else is dangerously likely to inspire hatred, which would then put both sides on the wrong side — on the side of hatred.
Bear in mind WHY the Russians are winning: because they are fighting a defensive war. It was the Americans (and whoever else might gain by hidden means) who attacked Russia by provocation, removing all options until attack was the only one left. If they are inspired by hatred, they will become no better than the hidden aggressors they are defending themselves from. Please don't try to, and try not to, inspire hatred.
Precisely. Hatred is the very antithesis of humane civilisation, for it is the seed from which all greater evil springs forth. Brilliant, Douche!
Hatred is what the closet Ziomaniac undercover Senyarim CJ Weleman is inspiring, when he craftily writes half-truths on Zio-oligarchic social media insinuating that Hindu labourers from India have descended in droves upon Israel with the malicious motive of dispossessing Muslim Palestinians in deference to a conspiracy between the political establishments of India and Israel, by demolishing ancestral homes of Palestinians in the West Bank and building homes for Jewish settlers upon the formers' debris. What CJ Werleman is hiding from his readers and audience is the fact that expat labourers do not have any say in the jobs they are assigned by contractors who hire them, and in Israel, the corpocratic law does not leave any scope for expat labourers, whether from India or from Africa for that matter, to jump employment in protest of any sort and to switch roles to say those of a farmer in the countryside in the event they happen to be unhappy with their present jobs of say construction site workers. An internal passport kind of system in force in Israel restricts mobility of expatriate workforce which possesses zero leeway in this regard. Having said that, there is zero evidence till date in the public domain of any Indian labourer having wilfully participated in any putative "settler colonisation of Palestinian lands" as so vehemently lamented with crocodile tears by CJ Werleman. Apparently, CJ Werleman wants to spark a crisis of broader conflict in Arab countries by inciting their impressionable populace to vengeful violence against the hundreds of thousands of Indian labourers who reside therein. The despicable tendency to victimise the most defenceless and largely apolitical sections of mankind, is undeniably one of the most hideous of human traits. The malafide charge levelled against Indian labourers, had earlier also been wrongly made against Falasha labourers who are Jews of Ethiopian origin, as closet Mossadist propagandists sought to scapegoat innocent bogeymen for Israel's transgressions, by handpicking them from amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless sections of Israeli as well as expat labourer societies. What is intriguing is that any strong critique of the likes of CJ Werleman and Amy Goodman, who feign displeasure at Israel as part of a larger covert agenda directed at other victims, elicits vociferous rebuttals from the anti-Semetism brigade, as if daring to challenge narratives espoused by someone who is himself overtly critical of Israel in an ostensibly hate-charged fashion, will qualify as anti-Semetism provided the person challenged in this manner hails from the "tribe" irrespective of his ideological leaning. It is very pertinent to note that very recently, CJ Werleman has gone so far as to taunt and tease Iran for not being sincere in its solidarity with Palestinians, by "accusing" Iran of chickenry and lip-service in "not having killed a single Israeli soldier till date". It is almost as if CJ Werleman is exhorting Iranians to kill Israelis, but the paradox is that the anti-Semetism cry brigade has his back !
It is in the same spirit that staunch Ziofascists oppose all condemnation of the kingpins of transAtlantic Slave trade, which incidentally is the first major holocaust of the 2nd millenium, namely the Portugal and Martnique-based Sephardic don families of Jimenez, Noronha, Fernandes, Rodrigues, Pallos Dias, Cabarello and Cardello lineages, most notably Antonio Fernandes de Elvas and Manuel Rodriguez Lameno; and collectively brand all such condemnation as anti-Semetism. Instead of calling out the undisguised black sheep from amongst their ilk, Ziofascists show a tendency to disincentivate any honest appraisal of their misdeeds by weaponising the hoarse cry of anti-Semetism. It is in this obnoxious spirit that Rabbi Pinkass GoldSmith has read too much in President Putin's innocuous jibe at vandals who are destroying the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Whereas Mr Putin had emphasised that the conspiracy to destroy Orthodox church and persecute its followers hatched by Zelensky and his henchmen should not be allowed to blow into an excuse for sectarian strife, because those involved in such hideous acts were not being sincere to the tenets of any faith, let alone Judaism ; on the other hand, Rabbi Pinkass GoldSmith capitalised on this well-meaning statement as an opportunity to foment the very same strife and hatred which President Putin had been entreating his countrymen not to succumb to, by dishonestly spinning an entirely opposite angle of a civilisational attack on Judaism to rake up controversy. Pincharse's rants about his bad time in Russia become all the more reprehensible when one remembers that it were his Ziofascist comrades Matvei Berman and Heinrich Yegoda who had been running the entire show of genociding hundreds of thousands of rank and file Slavic Russians from poverty stricken Labour class backgrounds in Siberian gulags at the time he is alluding to, as part of a project for fomenting massive internal discord and dissaffection towards the nation in Russian society chalked out by Lavrentiy Beria who was architect of a plan to carve out Greater Israel from Baku to Odessa. When, by a sudden turn or quirk of fate, destiny turned the tables on those two monsters Berman and Yegoda and they eventually fell foul of Stalin's favour and got purged, it was only to be expected of the usual suspects to cry anti-Semetism as if by a reflex, but this solidarity from the "tribe" does not make the devilish character of those two monsters any nobler.
Also all too true.
Just one little caveat: hatred hasn't evolved as a part of (human) emotion and behaviour for no good reason. It's not totally worthless and despicable, nor is its existence only to counterbalance or highlight love. It exists in its own right for a damn good reason — it IS sometimes necessary. That's not to justify Pincharse, but it should help to understand how the justification of hatred is used. The question is probably more about why, rather than who, you believe it's OK to hate. But then you get into justification, reeling off facts and lose your head up your own arse, so... Probably best just to keep away; as often and for as long as you can, in any case.
Undeniably, true and the sad irony of our mortal existence!
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Following up on Jews in Medieval France, Louis VIII's successor, St. Louis IX, was influenced by the convert, Br. Nicholas Donin OP, and by the Dominicans, to host a "disputation" in Paris, in which the rabbis were obliged to answer accusations concerning scandalous and sacrilegious material in the Talmud. In the aftermath, the French raided synagogues and Yeshivas, and ~1,000s of copies of the Talmud, and related texts, were burned in Paris. St. Louis would eventually expel the Jews from France.
Regarding Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, I'm not familiar with all of the issues you point out, but in general, you are right.
By the time the UK banned the slave trade, and sent the Royal Navy to interdict slaving ships, the overwhelming majority of the owners were gentiles.
The Sephardics were not based in Portugal. Portugal expelled them not long after the Spaniards did so. Many of the slave-ship owners were based in Newport, in the British colony of New Hampshire.
In England, King Edward I did not expel Jews on account of any sort of religious dispute. In France, it would seem religion played a greater role. The reign of King Louis VIII coincided with the early proselytizing efforts of two Jewish converts, Dominicans Pablo Christiani, and Nicholas Donin, which were supported by the 2nd Dominican Superior General, St. Raymond de Peñafort. While I am still researching further details, it is likely that the Dominicans may have influenced Louis VIII's Queen, St. Catherine of Aragonne.
Prior to the reign of King Louis VIII, the Kingdom of France had actually conferred certain commercial privileges to the Jews (perhaps as a consolation for other restrictions). King Louis began to rescind some of these privileges during his reign, particularly the activity of Jewish money lenders. While his motives are not entirely clear to me, these changes coincided with the Templar dispensation. Inasmuch as the Church had dispensed the Knights Templars from the prohibition against extracting interest on debts, in King Louis VIII's time, society in Europe would have deemed it more patriotic, and more Christian, to borrow from the Templar Order, rather than from a Jew. Nevertheless, King Louis VIII's restrictions on French Jews went beyond merely rescinding commercial privileges, and suppressing usury.
My Father was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp. After WWII, in 1974 Kohl and Gierek signed an agreement to provide financial compensation to victims of the Holocaust and victims of WWII. We went to Jewish Community in Warsaw to claim such compensation. The secretary told us that there were and too many Holocaust survivors, nothing was left for my Father. We returned in 1978, we received the same answer. Jews in the US and Israhell saying that 6,000,000 Jews died. I went to Encyclopaedia Judaica, and this book states that 4,700,000 were killed in WWII. This explains why my Father did not receive any compensation.
What religion was your dad ?
The 6 Million figure is invented because the Soviets knew Poles would not shed a tear for the murdered Jews*. So they offset 3 Million murdered Polish Jews with equivalent number of non-Jewish Poles. Sure, there were members of Polish intelligentsia murdered in concentration camps, and there were lots of civilian losses in Polish population, particularly during the destruction of Warsaw in August/October 1944. But it were never 3Mio, lol. What happened instead is that lots of Polish workers were moved to Germany to replace Germans fighting in the Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS, and after 1945, these stayed in Germany or moved on to the USA, Canada, UK or Australia. Almost all the Germans who had Polish passports before 1939 moved West, and even some Poles who acquired German passports after 1939 moved West too.
Then there were tons of Ukranians and Belorussians who resettled in Soviet Union or in the West after 1945. The grandparents of the just dismissed Canadian deputy PM and finance minister Chrystia Freeland come to mind here. OK, her grandfather Michailo Chomiak came from W Ukraine, but he actually worked in Cracow during the war. All of this explains the demographic changes Poland experienced in its non-Jewish population 1939-1948.
* For example, Polish resistance didn't do much about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Polish resistance was spoon-fed by the British with weapons but none of that made its way into the Warsaw Ghetto. OK, some Jews were hidden away, but many more were released to the German forces. The situation in the Soviet Union itself was no different. This is the reason that between 1945 and 1989 an ethno-religious breakdown was studiously avoided by the various Soviet governments. Otherwise, most non-Jewish voices from the Soviet population would not have empathized, but would instead said - well, there was one good thing about the Germans. It was the same all over the Eastern Block. You can easily verify it, by looking through the Osvobozhdeniye film series of early 1970s.
Please note - this was just for home consumption. To the West, Soviet Union and Eastern Block as a whole had no problem releasing the actual figures. So Soviets obviously helped during the Nuremberg trials, and Eastern Block countries helped Israel with evidence during the Eichmann trial. Moreover, Soviet Union helped prevent a UN SC censure of Israel for capturing Eichmann in Argentia. And not to forget: the famous Andrey Gromyko's speach at the UN in May 1947, where he outflanked the USA on supporting the establishment of the state of Israel.
" The 6 Million figure is invented because the Soviets knew Poles would not shed a tear for the murdered Jews*. "
No, the six million trope was already being used even before WW1.
No one wrote about anyone killing six million Jews before WWII. As Tsars [Ed.] Alexander III, and Nicholas II imposed increasingly restrictive Jewish policies, however, some Jewish-owned outlets in western countries wrote that Russia was abusing and endangering Jews
After the 2nd Partition of Poland, Russia really did have more than four million Jews, perhaps more than five million.
During and after WW1 the concern was about 6Mio Jews in Poland and East of it at risk. This is very different from 6Mio upper bound of murdered Jews till May 1945. The latter data also align with the Korherr report to Heinrich Himmler in March 1943 where his chief statistician submitted a number of at least 2.4Mio murdered Jews till then.
There are NUMEROUS articles from even before WW1 spouting the 6 million dead number. It has to do with Khabbalah.
I read through several such articles.a few years ago. I only noticed that such Jewish outlets claimed Jews were endangered under the Tsars. Of course, real massacres of those times were also reported.
There were claims that millions of Jews in Russian territory were ~ in danger of death ~ sometimes couched in very sensational language, however, not claims that the authorities were literally killing millions of Jews.
" not claims that the authorities were literally killing millions of Jews. "
Of course there weren't millions dead, thats my point. The " six million" figure hold some sort of importance to the "happy merchants" and now we live under its brutal tyranny.
Andrew is mostly correct, but while not directly addressed by Andrew, it must be pointed out that the misfortune that Poles (& others) experienced at the hands of the Germans is fundamentally different from the Jewish experience. Wherever the Germans went in the 40s they found some good Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Frenchmen, etc. They never found good Jews and in fact the policy of the German state was to murder any they came across.
So, does this imply a hierarchy of victimhood?
I think it does, but on the other hand I think that Jews alive today are not entitled to victimhood status any more than Germans alive today deserve victimizer status.
The forgoing does not address the entirely valid point that Jews instrumentalize antisemitism for political gain, or the equally valid point that Jew hatred is a real and persistent phenomenon.
As usual, Andrew provides thought provoking content.
It's not about victimhood status. Victimhood status is nonsense. It's about the probability of being a future victim. There history does teach that if one is repeatedly victim, the probability of being future victim is sky-high.
Perhaps the Jews haven't learned the lessons of the so-called 'Holocaust,' or their own responsibility.
The point is to convince American policy makers. Nothing gives a Pole greater delight than when he is permitted to gratify his American Master.
Who gives a fvck about the Jew holocaust - we now know very well why it happened.
The following comments are for informational purposes, and are not, in any sense, intended as justifications for crimes and abuses perpetrated by extremist elements in Ukraine, c. 1941-to-present.
Prior to the partitions of Poland, the poverty of the peasantry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the worst on the entire continent. It is likely that the situation in predominantly Orthodox Christian areas was even worse, however, these circumstances simultaneously affected (Catholic) Hungarians where Poles encroached into Hungarian territory.
It may accurately be said that religion played some part in subsequent developments in the former Eastern territories of imperial Poland. As Russia annexed more and more eastern Polish territories, however, the populace regarded Jews as collaborators with the old Polish and Lithuanian nobles. [Ed.] Notwithstanding conventional historians emphatic representations of subsequent reprisals as "religious persecution," reprisals against Jews in the region had more of an economic, than a religious, motive, c.f. Senator Gavril Derzhavin's report to the Court of Tsar Alexander II.
The music which western moralists have been singing about Assad government's moral obligation to devolve power by accomodating jihadist insurgents in some sort of confederacy arrangement, is not new or unique to Syria. About a decade ago, the most loyal and diffident mouthpiece of the Pentagon on earth, Mikhail Gorbachev, had said similar things while sermonising President Putin. Gorbachev had said that Mr Putin has misused loopholes in the Constitution for assuming autocratic powers, and that civil unrest against the government as exemplified by protests at Bolotnya Square and Sakharova will spread to every square and protestors will pitch up tents everywhere unless Putin addresses their grievances with political reforms, because those protests have galvanised society as a whole for the better.
https://youtu.be/NDHGXwYrYOY?si=i2tJYCIQgBnG2MYE
Today, in hindsight, Gorbachev is known to be the person who dismembered the Soviet Union using his despotic powers and refused to return Crimea to Russia where it belonged, without caring the least to respect the collective will of the people as would have been evident from a referendum. Moreover, he fooled his country and initiated the destruction and decomissioning of two thirds of Russia's strategic nuclear arsenal, without securing commensurate arrangements from the adversary USA which only decommissioned its warheads but preserved them on standby for later use. Whether this man was even worthy of the trust of Russia, let alone the despotic powers he wielded in his capacity as an enemy mole, is anybody's guess !
But if there were any doubts about the hostile intentions towards both Russia and Syria on part of the western purveyors of the "dialogue and devolution" doctrine which the USA and EU had doggedly been pressing Mr Lavrov to market in Syria, all such doubts are now finally dispelled by the official announcement made the other day by the Estonian-born High Representative of EU for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas. She has formally announced that the European Union is laying down caveat of expulsion of all Russian military bases from Syrian soil as a precondition for Syria's new rulers to be admitted into the "international" fold and the lifting of European sanctions on Syria. She has further stated that the EU regards Russian bases in Syria a security hazard and threat (to European hegemony, of course, my emphasis) to European interests in Africa. Things have now become crystal clear, but there can be no convincing the die-hard sceptics. It is plain obvious that Kaja Kallas has made a tacit endorsement of the illegal American and Israeli occupation of Syria while bemoaning the Russian military presence, because the EU regards Israel as a partner-in-arms in respect of the EuroMerican ravages across the globe.
https://youtu.be/hVAsNlFZqzs?si=YsgRxpnteGSjoxId
Now, Georgia Melonie of Italy who has sent Italian mercenary troops to fight against Russians in Kursk, is raking up much the same anti-Russian hysteria.
https://youtu.be/YNHp4u2DKA4?si=1uB8qMdbTAhGrf3F
Palki Sharma Upadhyaye, die-hard Israel-afficionado and anchor-in-chief of FirstPost owned by Network 18 chaired by Adil Zainulbhai, is the most vitriolic anti-Putin disinformation monger in South Asia. She dabbles in fantasizing about sexual escapades of President Putin, extolls the Zelensky regime's diabolical machinations for pressurizing Indians to enlist with Ukrainian militias, and indulges in wholesale racist sexual slander of North Koreans and character assassination of consorts of foreign leaders. Incidentally, her husband is a hard core Modi-hater as well.
https://youtu.be/hN_I84jxSdA?si=0-IGbHvTb3PjFiUb
https://youtu.be/d0eqajVIUlE?si=TRDKhFX9Ue_9Dnan
https://youtu.be/p-y975rUbwg?si=IY_4soZcD28jKqxJ
Many singers, same music. Many actors, same script. As the old Polish proverb goes, the Mildew cries out in pain as he strikes you!
Plenty of western politicians spoke of literally ousting Ba'athists in Syria, however, I never read of any Western program of confederation. A confederation would have been problematic for the West, inasmuch as their Kurdish allies barely comprised 7% of the total population in the 2007 census, and their designs of a Kurdish hegemony implied an undemocratic power structure, without majority support, or public credibility.
I certainly do remember how, during one of the negotiations in Astana, c. 2016 /2017, the Russian delegation made a proposal to resolve the conflict by implementing a confederated political order.
https://youtu.be/kH2XG8z5B6s?si=N9BZkZD0tIcJRYOB
Courtesy Zelensky and the Azov conscription mafia, the worst gory days are back in Ukraine, reminiscent of the medieval Arendar Earls and Lords, and of the 20 th century Ziofascist Matvei Berman the inventor of Gulags who had huddled hundreds of thousands of Slavic women picked up from the streets of Moscow for defying Greater Israel architect Lavrenti Beria's demands for sexual favours, to Reality TV style Jailhouse Nazino "cannibal" island in Omsk where thugs deputed by Beria and Berman sliced off the breasts and calves of those women and baked up the amputated flesh like sausages.
Food for thought.
https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/9d/cc/b0/9dccb0a111bbc96d17f6d54be42d2e62.jpg?width=568
ΙIn our dystopiv world the ''eternal victims'' hapen to be our judge-jury-executioners|!
While the Poles, as a collective, are definitely to be blamed for the Holocaust, the Israelis, as a collective (their own polls are showing it) are guilty of the present genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing and apartheid in West Bank... Heck, the ICC and ICJ and HRW, and Amnesty International have put the finger on the scale and decided that yup, Israel is a genocidaire...
I meant to say NOT TO BE BLAMED...