No one should expect the Alt-Media Community to correct the false perceptions that “Potemkinism” associated with Russian policy towards Israel in the minds of their audience over the years.
It's projection. Russia is a leading rival to the US Empire, so some of those who oppose its policies project their own hopes and dreams on Russia or China or Iran or anyone else who resist sthem.
Just like many Americans are projecting their hopes and dreams on either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, even when neither candidate actually gives a damn about those hopes and dreams. Consider it a combination of desperate hopes for things to get better and ignorance of Russia and its history.
True, it's a projection to a certain extent, but one of my main points is that it's allowed to proliferate without any behind-the-scenes nudging to push influencers in the direction of reflecting Russia's actual policy due to the "Potemkinist" strategy.
That top influencer who I referenced has misled many about Russia's policy on this, which its diplomats have worked hard to promulgate on Putin's orders, yet those who host him here think that he's done a great job getting people to love Russia (albeit on false pretexts).
Whether you agree with Article 282 and the National Guard helping to fight anti-Semitism, the fact is that these policies do indeed exist, yet they're selectively enforced as proven by the example that I mentioned of him regularly talking about "Talmudic psychopaths".
No average Russian or foreign guest could amplify such rhetoric through social media to more than 200,000 people (his combined X and Telegram reach) without fearing that they'd get in serious trouble.
He's also only referencing a Jewish Holy Book and not the Muslim one, which is another reason for the selective enforcement, since he wouldn't be able to post about "Quranic psychopaths" all the time while here in Russia or he'd most likely get in serious trouble.
So what we see is that there's a lack of consistency, and that's because those who are involved in "Potemkinism" (whether they're conscious of it or not, all that matters is that those who host them here are) are able to say and do what average people here can't.
Again, it's unimportant whether you agree with Russia's legal policies, my only point was in drawing attention to the inconsistency with which it's applied in order to further prove my hypothesis about "Potemkinism", which is my personal conclusion and not any "inside info".
I confess I know nothing about the alt-media figure you focused on, but I do know something about the people who tend to believe such things. There’s a lot of wishful thinking about Russia and China among disaffected Westerners, and that lends itself to projection of their hopes onto those 2 countries.
The thing is that nothing you said about Russia’s real intentions surprised me at all. Winston Churchill said that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but just MAYBE there was a key—Russian
national interests.
Anyone who studies Russian history, and tries to empathize with the Russian perspective, doesn’t find Vladimir Putin mysterious at all. In a way, he’s the easiest type of Russian leader to predict because he is a patriot.
Andrew obviously doesn't know anything about Russia at all. I recommend reading moon of Alabama and Martyanov to get a real idea of how the Kremlin thinks. Putin uses judo tactics that he learned in the KGB when he plays chess. The Kremlin is only pretending to support Israel to get bibis guard down and than when the time is right Shoigu will strike and Palestine will be free (Shoigu is still running the military, Putin just pretended to fire him to trick Mossad and the CIA).
"...the impression that casual observers have is that there must be some truth to it otherwise corrective action would have already been taken..."
Impressions, important though they are, aren't always helpful. It's quite possible even casual observers, 'casual' though they may be, understand more than might be superficially apparent.
"...no one should expect the AMC to correct the false perceptions that “Potemkinism” associated with Russian policy towards Israel."
No, fair enough. But no-one has to expect anything of anyone to wonder how Putin reconciles, "...Russia (has always) support[ing](ed) a two-state solution..." with "...Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinians...".
"...Israel’s destruction and the imposition of sanctions against it that aren’t first approved by the UNSC."
'Destruction' is rather an emotive word. If the conditions on which a state was founded by the UN really do prove impossible to implement, given decades of sincere attempts, 'disbanding' the state to rebuild in on a basis more likely to be successful could hardly be considered 'destruction'. Something like 'resurrection' might be more appropriate; something like what happened to Russia, when the 'Soviet Experiment' proved unsuccessful?
As far as I'm aware, neither Putin nor anyone else has really addressed this question directly. In such an information vacuum it's hardly surprising people, like those representing the AMC, struggle to find sense in the confusion.
Putin directly addressed Ahmadinejad's call to destroy Israel, which he was informed was a misreporting but still stuck to his strong condemnation of that rhetoric and the idea behind it:
“Vladimir Putin: A response to your question could take hours. It’s so complex. I will try to be as concise as possible. First, I have repeatedly voiced Russia’s official stance – Iran has the right for a peaceful nuclear program and it cannot be singled out for discrimination. Second, we need to be aware that Iran is located in a very challenging region. I have told our Iranian partners about that. That’s why Iranian threats made towards neighbouring countries, in particular Israel, threats that Israel can be destroyed, are absolutely unacceptable. This is counterproductive.
Oksana BOYKO: This is not a proper quote of the Iranian president.
Vladimir Putin: It doesn’t quite matter whether it’s a proper quote or not. It means it’s best to avoid a wording that could be improperly quoted or could be interpreted differently. That’s why the focus on Iran does have a reason behind it.” – Visit to Russia Today television channel, 11 June, 2013
I also explained here how my personal reading of the Kremlin's policy is that it's against fundamentally revolutionizing the current nature of the Israeli state because of how this process could be weaponized against Russians in the Near Abroad:
(^^^ I got the quote above from this analysis that I published back in mid-2018)
Putting it all together, my impression is that he might think that risks "ethnic cleansing" given how sensitive he is towards Jewish interests, which is also why he volunteered to condemn terrorism against Israel yesterday despite not being asked about it.
"...analysis that I published back in mid-2018..."
Not to deride the value of your analysis, but six and a half years is a long time.
"... my impression is that he might think that risks "ethnic cleansing" given how sensitive he is towards Jewish interests, which is also why he volunteered to condemn terrorism against Israel yesterday despite not being asked about it."
More to the point, I value your impressions, having familiarised myself with your work, no less than I do your analysis. Thank you for sharing!
Questions of ethnic cleansing and Jewish interests, I would have thought, must be subject to some significant revision recently, particularly in view of the way the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon (soon to include Iran?) have evolved. Condemning terrorism isn't the same as condoning ethnic cleansing. I can't believe even the most doggedly 'proud lifelong philo-Semite' could abstain from reviewing the situation (forever).
"Putin directly addressed Ahmadinejad's call to destroy Israel..." Visit to Russia Today television channel, 11 June, 2013
Yes, I had seen that before, thanks for pointing it out again. What an excellent interview! Funnily enough, it seems even better now in retrospect than it ever has before (and I've seen it several times). Actually, I think that's probably always been the case: it seems to get better and better each time I revisit it. Again, thanks again for pointing it out!
Arguably, evolution is the reason and basis for everything (natural). Logically, it applies to politics, and the ideas of even the greatest statesmen may not be cast in stone, untouchable and unchanged by events and forces any more than anyone else's. I'm sure Putin would agree. Все мы ходим под Богом.
a_week_is_a_long_time_in_politics) and a decade is even longer! I'm sure Putin's most fundamental ideas about the concept of 'destruction' (as Boyko pointed out was, "... not a proper quote...".) remain essentially unchanged. This was, however, a human's feasible short-term gestation period (eight months) before the morons of McCain et al unleashed their 'Revolution of Dignity' on the Ukraine; on the eve of the US President's (then Obama's) visit, about which Putin was painfully aware: "So right on the eve of my meeting with Barack Obama, you are pushing me to make some serious statements…". If memory serves, this was a year or so before that very same President declared he had reduced Russia's economy to 'tadders' as punishment for actions it had been forced to take in the Crimea; long, long before they'd likewise been forced to stick to a similar line, after some 16+ thousands of casualties inflicted by NATO (supported) shelling of the Donbas. I find it difficult to conceptually drive any belief system to support the idea Putin's, EVEN Putin's, most fundamental perceptions of many, many things haven't evolved and changed in all this time.
Furthermore, and more importantly, I disagree that "Putin directly addressed Ahmadinejad's call to destroy Israel...". Whichever way I read it, it's more about Iran's "...right for a peaceful nuclear program..." than it is about underlying issues in the region. I blame Boyko for this: her question tried to encompass so much that she left too much room for Putin to effectively avoid answering. Simonyan played an equally important role, "She’s our tough guy.". Together they gave Putin more than enough latitude to slide around the issue without ever really addressing it directly.
I posit and maintain: this information vacuum still exists.
Only partially related. I found that you have an extra grasp and sensitivity about words and semantics, perhaps linguistics as well. It is interesting to read your writings.
What a wonderful compliment — thank you very much!
To avoid false modesty, I should say Russian did this for me: had I not learnt Russian, I might have remained as ignorant of language — semantics and psycho-/socio-linguistics — as I had been before I'd started.
Yeah, I hear you, and in principle/by spirit am inclined to agree. I think Putin errs to giving excessive leeway, which I'd like to hear him admit. It might be a mistake. Nonetheless, I follow his lead here and risk erring to an unfairly lax attitude. It's so difficult being a parent: spare the rod and spoil the child, or undermine credibility... ? But, yes, I hear you.
"The consequent confusion is exacerbated among those who are aware of Article 282 from the Russian Criminal Code prohibiting the “Incitement of Hatred or Enmity, as Well as Abasement of Human Dignity”"
All of which Israel is guilty of in spades, and which can't have gone unnoticed by the Russian public. I'm assuming public opinion carries some weight in Russia and is factored into their policies, but all that aside, of what value to Russia is the state of Israel?
Not much that I can see. Iran, with ten times the population and a vastly larger territory, much of it undeveloped, should be of much greater interest I'd think. Add to this that China gets about 15% of its energy from Iran and nothing at all from Israel, and again it seems like Iran should weigh more heavily in the equation, given Russia's close relationship with China.
Then there's the Muslim factor - 10% of Russia's population, which in the present circumstances I'm sure heavily disapproves of Russia's relationship with Israel. Also consider that the Zionist element in the USA are major architects of the war on Russia itself, via their proxies in Ukraine.
All of this begs the question: how much Zionist influence is there in Russia? Quite frankly I'm disgusted to see Israel treated as if they were somehow of importance to Russia and not as the pariah they truly are. Granted there are Russians living there, but they made their choice. Russia is very emphatic about patriotism, so how is it those dual citizens get a pass when their loyalties are obviously divided, and now that the chips are down they want to come home? They made their bed. Let them lie in it.
Article 282 and the National Guard cracking down on anti-Semitism in cooperation with the Federation of Jewish Communities isn't relevant to what anyone is doing outside its jurisdiction.
My point in referencing them is to show that selective standards are being applied when it comes to enforcing these legal policies. An average Russian or foreign guest here couldn't express themselves like that.
Why this is important to be aware of is because it serves as proof of my "Potemkinism" hypothesis, which to be clear, is my own personal conclusion based on close observation as I explained and not any "inside info".
I agree with your main premise. Russia allows a distorted view of their foreign policy to go unhindered as they believe it somehow advances their cause. Have I got that right?
My point is that their actual policy sucks because it involves a double standard. In short, a nation's foreign policy should reflect its fundamental values. That doesn't mean they should interfere directly in another nation's affairs - that's the US approach - but neither should they turn a blind eye to the kind of horrors being perpetrated in Palestine as we speak.
Frankly I don't understand Putin's apparent love of Israel. If ever there was a Potemkin village, Israel is IT, and recent events are just icing on the cake. The hallmark of a true intellect is to admit when you're wrong, and Putin seems incapable of doing that. Surely he must be aware that the problems Russia faces in Ukraine are a product of US Zionists and their Ukrainian counterparts - the same people that unconditionally support Israel.
I don't know if 10-07 was a surprise or it was allowed to happen to advance a larger agenda, but in either case Hamas forced the world's attention on what Israel has always been - an apartheid state founded on British perfidy and Zionist ambitions. Putin may not recognize that, but I'm sure most Russians do, in particular the Muslim population, which raises another point. A significant number of nations considering membership in the BRICS alliance are culturally Muslim, and by not calling out Israel he risks undermining their trust. What's he going to do when Chechens start answering the call and are seen fighting alongside Hezbollah? Condemn them as antisemitic? Arrest them on their return to Russia? Again it begs the question: how much influence do Zionists have on Russian foreign policy?
That's correct, you understand my point about Potemkinism.
Russia and Putin haven't turned a blind eye to the humanitarian horrors of this conflict and routinely condemn it. The exact formulation that they use is condemning Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinians.
I explained in one of the hyperlinked analyses in my article why Russia and the Resistance will never fully agree on Palestine, which partially accounts for its stance.
As for Russian Muslims, like I also wrote, the National Guard is now tasked with cracking down on anti-Semitism and I'm sure that the domestic security services are following all such manifestations in that community which could pose a threat.
It is really unfortunate that Mr. Korybko keeps peddling the Zionists assertion that Israel is in mortal danger and all around want to destroy it. For years that has not been the case, with Palestinians willing to accept either a two state solution or a one state solution with everyone having equal rights. Israel's security is not under threat. What is under threat is its ever expanding borders while conducting ethnic clensing and maintaining apartheid within its borders with its own Arab citizens (I suggest Mr. Korybko reads Amnesty International or B'Tselem's reports concluding without any doubt that Israel is an Apartheid state).
And there is no case to be made about assertions of "Talmudic psychos" as being hate crimes since this is right on the spot, for everyone that has ever watched Israeli made interviews with certain members of Israeli government or other characters imbued with messianic fervor. The Zionists are very proud of their actions and don't hide their hand any longer, it is all over the internets and one can see their glee - there are now libraries about it and documentaries being made. Palestinians or Iranians want the end to Apartheid (Zionist entity), which is legalized in the Israel's Basic Law. Israel has consciously avoided so far to have a Constitution... But the present war has shown to the entire world the true face of the majority of Israelis... I would challenge Mr. Korybko to watch all these manifestations and then describe them with words, and then compare with what he acuses of being hate speech and then see where he would stand...
As for Russian position, it is quite clear and not very unusual. Not different from any of the GCC members and also not hypocritical either, like Canada or Hungary, for instance (Canada more than Hungary). At the last legal pronouncement of ICJ, at the behest of UNGA, on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands, both Canada and Hungary have submitted legal opinions on support of Israel's occupation. However, while Hungary has done it on the record, for the whole world to see and hear, Canada has done it via a sealed package, to be read only by the judges and ICJ secretariat. Such forqued tongue, on one side affirming the two state solution and on the other hand, on the legal front, defending Israel's occupation. Something Russia never did. Also, Azerbaidjan sells and ships oil to Israel via Turkey, both muslim countries...
You are extraordinarily legalistic in your approach. Unless you have some secret access to Russian, thinking, I see no justification in your criticism of the AMC. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I know of no evidence that Russia is supplying Israel with arms or defense systems. Nor am I aware that Israel has supplied arms or air defense systems to Russia. On the other hand, Russia has supplied these items to Iran and vice versa. That is what counts, not legalistic diplomatic language. Russia wants to be seen as following the rules laid out in the UN charter and in traditional international relations since the US and NATO allies, and Israel I must add, make their own rules. Russia is not stupid. Putin knows Israel is the USA’s catspaw. The people you are criticizing (attacking?)
aren’t stupid. You take things at face value instead of analyzing events. Your impugning pecuniary motives to the thought leaders of the AMC community only makes you look petty.
Just this past summer, right in the middle of the Israeli rampage in Gaza, Putin sent congratulations to a Jewish event that celebrated the Salvation and Liberation Day. So did Netanyahu and Herzog. Putin condemned anti-Semitism, radical nationalism and xenophobia as per usual, of course:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent congratulations on Salvation and Liberation Day, the youngest Jewish holiday celebrated since 2013 in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the salvation of the Jewish people from the Holocaust. The holiday was established on the initiative of Vice President of the Russian Jewish Congress, President of the International Charitable Foundation of Mountain Jews STMEGI German Zakharyaev, and the date chosen for this day is 26 Iyar (this year it is June 3).
"I congratulate you on the holiday - the Day of Salvation and Liberation," Vladimir Putin said in his message. "The 26th of Iyar is one of the most important, significant dates in the centuries-old history of the Jewish people. It connects eras and generations, embodies the unfading memory of the Great Victory, the immortal feat of the soldiers and commanders of the Red Army who crushed Nazism, saved the Jewish and other peoples from the threat of destruction. And, of course, this is a tribute of deep, sincere respect for the people who, in the most difficult trials, showed fortitude and courage, did not submit to the cruel and merciless enemy. I am confident that the widespread celebration of the Day of Salvation and Liberation enriches the historical, religious, cultural traditions of Russian Jews, promotes the advancement in society, especially among the youth, of high spiritual, moral, patriotic ideals and values. Serves to consolidate efforts in countering radical nationalism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism. I wish you success in implementing your plans and all the best.""
How many Jews are in Jordan? But they put planes in the air to defend Israel against the Iranian attacks... The word is that Russia might have provided targeting info to Iranians this last round and that they are helping with AD systems against a potential Israeli/US attack...
1. When Putin or any Russian official says something that aligns with AMC priors, then he is taken at his word. When a Russian official says something that contradicts those prioritizing, it's a headfake.
This is QAnon logic, repurposed for a different set of fantasies.
2. There is no eleven dimensional chess here, no master plan, no secret Russian omnicompetence, and pretending otherwise will not change this.
You're just butthurt because the alt media disagrees with Russia's position on Israel. The public sees the injustice and suffering of the Palestinian people so it will never agree or support Russia's position which is two faced in this regard.
Riiight, I, the same person who was defamed by the State Department as an anti-Semite for my anti-Zionist analyses in mid-2020, am "butthurt" because other people don't agree with Russia's position on Israel:
Get real. I don't care whether anyone agrees or disagrees with it, what I'm against is misportraying its policy by pretending that Russia is anti-Israel/-Zionist and pro-Palestinian when it's neutral, and if anything, it leans towards Israel (Putin is a lifelong philo-Semite).
You're blocked for personally attacking me ("You're a Zionist apologist"), which I have zero tolerance for. I encourage respectfully expressed contrarian views, court them even, but I won't allow trolls to disrespect me here and toxify the community that I'm building.
It's very dishonest of you to now pretend that the prevailing narrative among the Alt-Media Community is that Russia isn't allied with Israel against Iran. You can reference Pepe Escobar, Maram "Syrian Girl" Susli, and other big names as proof of "Potemkinism" in practice on this subject.
You won't dare direct your anger at Russia's regional policy against the country itself, Putin, or his officials since you know you'll be "canceled" by Alt-Media, so you instead abuse me as a scarecrow who you can attack with impunity. That's unacceptable and weak. I have zero respect and those like you.
Mr Itamar Bin Gvir commands far greater respect and following in Israel than many other leaders of the far-right movement, because he is perceived to be a man of his word who does not indulge in loose talk. Even his detractors agree on this point. However, the Hungarian settler Daniella Weiss is hardly anything more than a garrulous rabble rouser, who has seldom shown the capabilty to follow through on her empty threats. She is known to be a jealous woman, and it is possible that she might secretly be competing with Mr Itamar Ben Gvir for the confidence and trust of his constituency.
The architects of the idea of Greater Israel as extending from the Euphrates to the Nile, have clearly also spoken about the imperative need to settle the town of Medina in Saudi Arabia with Jewish settlers after cleansing the settlement with purification rituals. The town is to be renamed Jethro and Muslim inhabitants to be peacefully expelled to Riyadh. Mr Itamar Ben Gvir is the only charismatic personality amongst Israeli hardliners who commands professional respect in the Arab Gulf littoral as well, and he is the only person who can fructify the dream of Greater Israel in an entirely peaceful manner via friendly negotiations with Arab stakeholders such ad Saudi Arabia, and ensure a just financial resettlement compensation package to the oustees. It is reported that the plan might be implemented in a phased manner, and the projected Saudi town of Neom in Northern Hijaz might become the first Saudi settlement to be transferred into Israeli hands as a dress rehearsal for the peaceful and congenial implementation of the projected Greater Israel accords.
Why are persisting in defending a Nazi state like Israel is beyond my comprehension. Of course Putin wants to protect Israel. However, it is obvious to everyone that Israel is pulling the USA into a third world war, to which obviously Putin and most of the world is definitely against. Furthermore, the majority of people around the world, including Palestinians, understand well there is a big difference between Zionist Jews and the Jewish religion.
In the view of many analysts, Israel is little more if anything than a defacto corporate office of a quasi Phoenician business empire straddling entire oceans across multiple continents. The wealth of those entire continents is being milked by this cliche for enriching Israel which is actually incapable of independent self sustenance. The history of Israel is the story of its chosen people, and Russia has next to nothing to directly do with its creation, sustenance or its alleged ravages. Mr Putin has never shown any patronising will to "protect" Israel and does not believe in uninvited intrusion on anyone's privacy. Neither has Israel ever sought protection from Mr Putin, as it deems it sacriligeous to imagine that anyone save Yahweh deserves the compliment for being its benefactor. Russia is not a party to the sibling rivalry tug of war between Hamas and Netanyahu. In her interviews, Palestinian Queen of Jordan, Rania Al Hussein has condoned the campus crackdowns on Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in America by suggesting that anti-Semetism is a real meance which campus authorities owe a responsibility to the world to nip in the bud. So, what some misinformed quarters are interpreting as a proxy war between Russia and the west, is actually simply a manifestation of a factional intrafamily or intranecine Palestinian dispute or discord. It is not fair to ascribe motives to Mr Putin based on a cursory observation of the IDF-Hamas engagement or the Iran-Israel strategic detente.
A very large number of sex therapy clinics have sprung up across Israel in recent years. In most of those clinics, the government of Israel pays the clinic owners or so called sex-therapists, for "sexual rehabilitation" of such Israeli military personnel who have lately been suffering loss of libido in the aftermath of combat injuries, or from depression consequent upon remorse for excesses committed upon adversaries in the line of military duty. Israeli soldiers are by convention bereft of the liberty to voice their personal remorse or feelings of guilt in public, or even to friends in the military or amongst civilian populace. The pent up feelings of guilt as pitted against a lifetime of self superior and self rectitudinal indoctrination, result in a conflict of psychology which has been wreaking havoc with the mental health of Israeli soldiers. And the government of Israel in its enlightened wisdom has decided that pampering such "traumatized" soldiers with bounties of lascivious extramarital carnal indulgence, is the best remedy for all of those mental and psychological ailments engendered by circumstances of their military assignments. In those sex therapy clinics, male Israeli soldiers are retaught the ABC of love making from scratch, by female psychologists in a very seductive and lewd environment, laden with sexually explicit scenes painted all over the walls and outright vulgar language and tone used by those psychologists. But the icing on the cake is the mandatory practical sessions, which invariably follow those didactic lectures and interactive one to one dialogues between male Israeli soldier and his female sex therapist. At the end of those sessions, the soldier is retired to a Cosy room sporting all the features of a luxury brothel, and provided a real female sexual partner who is little more than a sexual serf, for enacting all of his latent and dirty sexual fantasies on that unfortunate women. In fact, just prior to commencement of those "practical" sessions which are nothing short of legalised prostitution subsidized by the government, the real life spouses of those Israeli soldiers are summoned to the clinic, and cajoled to encourage their husbands to shed off all inhibitions before undertaking their libidinous feat of impressive performance in that brothel, and to assure those husbands that they should not worry in the least about embarrassment from their wives. The wives are told that those carnal liaisons in the brothel are simply part of the state's endeavour to keep Israeli Army in fit shape, and are something the whole nation must unquestioningly feel proud about. The male soldiers are also especially warned by their therapist or instructor, not to get carried away by allowing soft feelings to develop in their hearts for their one night stand female partners, who are to be treated as beings with no greater status than temporary sex mannequins. The million dollar question is, who are the women who are being trafficked by the Israeli sex therapy public- private partnership syndicate into those brothels for satiating the carnal appetite of Israeli soldiers and wayward Israeli male civilians? The Torah proscribed adultery and prescribes death by stoning for the act. As such, it is most unlikely that the Israeli state will incentivate female Israeli Jewish nationals to prostitute themselves in those state-patronized brothels. It is highly suspected that unsuspecting Palestinian Muslim women, picked up under pretext of routine questioning by the IDF, are being thrown for sexual exploitation amounting to rape in those brothels, and are then being forced to keep silent about those monstrosities for the rest of their lives out of fear of social stigmatization if the Mossad goes overboard with defaming them by revealing spicy details of their coerced sexual encounters with Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian Queen of Jordan Rania, who is regarded as Um Al Falastin by her subjects in Jordan, loves Israel like her own child. She pacifies her impulsive husband, by titillating that man's carnal taste buds with the sensuous delights of her bewitching body, and murmurs a lullaby into his ears at copulation time, wailing in lament about the fate of Gaza and begging that man at the very same time to defend Israel with all his might. The Hashemite King of Jordan suffers from a familial weakness for blonde flesh, and dances to the lascivious tunes of his Palestinian wife like a spinning top. Palestinian Queen Rania sports the sex appeal of Bella Hadid and is the heart throb of umpteen Israeli fans. She has fulfilled her job of defending Israel like a real mother, as if Israel were her blood son, in the same way in which a cat protects its kittens. In Jordan, She is regarded as role model par excellence for all Palestinians who adore her like their mother. Palestinian Queen Rania Al Hussein speaks flawless American English in impeccable cowboy accent, and is the posterwoman of Palestinian feminity. Her sex appeal is held in high acclaim and esteem throughout Israel. Israeli troops enamored of her sex appeal have come to entertain very high opinions of the prurience of the Palestinian woman, and as such, Palestinian women who are picked up for routine questioning by Israeli troops and are subsequently trafficked as sex slaves into sex-therapy clinics burgeoning across Israel, have become such a popular rage among the Israeli soldiers undergoing copulatory liasons with those women under pretext of sexual rehabilitation in those clinics, so much so that popular pressure has forced the Israeli government to pay the fees of those clinics from its exchequer.
When hundreds of Palestinian women are ordered by Israeli troops to line up squatting on the ground and disrobe upto their underwear including removal of their blouse and bra, as part of routine roundup and interrogation protocol, many of them find it prudent to comply instead of offering resistance, because they know the price of refusal only too well, and often behave or pretend as if they are enjoying their predicament and obtaining equal sensuous gratification from it as their captors. This strategy of survival under adversity has worked remarkably well, and has in many cases had a sobering or softening effect on the minds of their Israeli male captors, to the jealous chagrin of female Israeli colleagues in the IDF. Some Israeli soldiers have become so emotionally attached and sexually attracted to their female Palestinian prisoners, that a spate of defiance or reluctance has caught the ranks of Israeli Army by the storm, because love-struck Israeli soldiers are beginning to feel deep sense of guilt and remorse at tormenting the clansmen of their bewitching Palestinian darlings. Any middle eastern who knows his country well will vouch safe for the magical sensuous beauty of the Palestinian woman which can blow many an austere sage away. But the irony is that the Israeli government has its own way of dealing with the rising tide of dissidence in the IDF ranks, and it dangles the lure of free and secret sexual intercourse with captive Palestinian women trafficked into state-sponsored brothels euphemistically labeled sex-therapy clinics, as bait for dispelling feelings of ineptitude or loss of interest among those soldiers, in the belief that the enthralling fulfillment of pleasurable intercourse with a Palestinian woman is the best Panacea for all distractions afflicting the Israeli Army cadre, no matter whether such intercourse be consensual or coerced. Israelis have a very regard for the effeminate motherly instinct of Palestinian woman, who is both an avid playmate in bed with her husband as well as a dedicated breastfeeder to her toddlers at the same time, and count on the motherly clout of Palestinian Queen Rania on Jordanian subjects, as well as her bewitching carnal overtures before her Hashemite Royal beau, as the best guarantors of peace between Israel and Arabs. Israel trusts the motherly affection for Israelis which Queen Rania bears in her Palestinian heart. In Jordan, her subjects trust her completely and call her Um Al Falastin out of affection, viz. the mother who has dutifully protected her children from the wrath of Israel, by means of her reconciliatory congenial overtures to Israel. But in complying with orders from Israeli troops to disrobe and bare their boobs, Palestinian women are unwittingly incentivating a vicious circle of subsequent prostitution of other Palestinian women who are forcibly trafficked into sex therapy clinics for intercourse with Israeli soldiers infatuated with puppy love for prurient Palestinian flesh. They had better realise that there are times when a firm No is the only right option, no matter what the price !
For decades, Israeli policy makers have been fully cognizant of (and made good use to their political advantage) of the dictum that foreign policy of Jordan has long been the outcome of impressionable modification of the Hashemite male Bedouin psyche during intimate fluid bonding with true blonde Lisa Hallaby and pseudo blonde Rania, who have been nicknamed the Beduoin's Marylin and Doris respectively, in allusion to high esteem of the alluring pleasurability of physical intimacy with the bewitching Palestinian female in Bedouin folklore.
Queen Rania is the uncrowned brand ambassador of the salubrious and gratifying nuptial worth of a Palestinian woman, and Israel has long counted on the lure of her red lipstick and her trademark effeminate charm for pacifying an increasingly restive Jordanian populace.
Palestinian women pride themselves on being the most sexually emancipated beings in the entire Muslim world. Dating before marriage is forbidden by convention among Palestinian women, but their male suitors have improvised a way of getting around such constraints in the form of likes of the investiture ceremony in which the wannabe suitor gently palpates, cuddles and caresses the skin of would be Palestinian wife from nipples to buttock from beneath her Abaya, and keeps his glance fixated on her face for subtle clues as to her sexual arousal as evinced from her facial expression and oomph groans. This is a handy pH meter, for determining or estimating the carnal worth of a would be spouse. The dowry money goes up with the sensuous excitability of the woman, and this price tag obviously remains high even in the cheapest instances. While affording a Palestina for a wife is deemed a luxury in Arab world, even in Israel, the alluring sensuous appeal of Palestinian woman is talk of the town among male recruits in the IDF, and Israeli government pays sex-therapy clinics in Israel for arranging copulatory sessions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian women, in the considered belief that carnal knowledge of a Palestinian woman trafficked into those veritable brothels remains the best Panacea for all ills plaguing the Israeli army such as ineptitude and lackadaisical disinterest, depression, detection and inertia. Palestinian women are released from bondage after exhaustive coerced one night stand copulation with Israeli soldiers, and warned to keep mum at the cost of loss of reputation, and sternly warned to nonchalantly go about business as usual such as daily chores of suckling their infants and looking after their kids after returning back to their families, as if nothing had happened to them in captivity.
I fully appreciate the apprehensions raised by Mr Andrew Korybko regarding possible consequences of the conundrum engendered by conflicting signals from the Kremlin; yet at the same time I remain confident of the reassurance that Mr Putin is a master strategist who knows what he is doing. Observers can safely relax and wait for things to unfold soon.
Leading stalwarts in that part of the so called Muslim world which remains economically or militarily aligned with the west, have been publically articulating their opinion claiming that Russia is a land of infidels, and that the Russian leadership has no concern for well-being of either the Palestinians or of the Al Aqsa mosque, but is simply interested in misusing them as pawns and cannon fodder for opening a second front to engage American and NATO militaries and thereby ease the pressure on Russian forces embroiled in Ukraine. Now, whether anyone agrees with me or not, it is my firm conviction based on positive evidence in my possession, that Israel and Ziofascist think tanks are instrumental in fostering such a notion. My counter-question to the zombies who fall for such clickbaits, however, is why on earth should Russia or say Mr Andrew Korybko or any XYZ Russian for that matter be expected to shoulder the "responsibility" of Al Aqsa mosque, when in complete concordance with Islamic jurisprudence, that responsibility has long been assumed by the Jordanian Waqf board which has since been doing a splendid job at that. If any Muslim resents the current state of affairs of the Al Aqsa mosque, the proper channel for addressing his concerns would be for him to approach or seek audience with the Jordanian Waqf board, instead of the stupid act of taking Russia to task for supposed "abdication of responsibilities towards Islam and Muslims" . It is not Russia, but the half British Hashemite Hijazi King Hussein, who is the custodian of Al Aqsa mosque; so any bickerings Muslims might have regarding that mosque need to be thrashed out with King Hussein and his Palestinian Queen consort Rania alone. Russia does not come anywhere in the picture because
Russia has never advertised itself as a pharmacy from where any disgruntled person might obtain a panacea potion to heal all personal woes of all time. The Sibling rivalry between Hamas and Israel can only be ameliorated as and when the two belligerents come to talking terms on their own accord or volition, and forcing a truce between them is not Russia's responsibility, or of You and Me for that matter.
Besides, Israel's closest state-adjacent protege and spokesman in the Islamic world, Moab Hassan Yousseff, has repeatedly levelled the charge on public platforms, in which he has personally blamed Mr Vladimir Putin for planning, masterminding and orchestrating the October 7 carnage wrought by Hamas, and blamed Iran for having supervised and conducted it. So, there you have it; when Israel does not back off from its false accusations of blaming Russia for the doings of Hamas, how can anyone in his right mind preach sermons to Russia about the need for rectifying its "reputation" for the sake of "Russia's obligation to the Jewish people". I mean to say that the so-called ALT Media stalwarts who are engendering the impression that Russia is covertly supporting the AXIS OF RESISTANCE against Israel, cannot be faulted on this account, because they are simply taking Israel's own pronouncements (made via state-adjacent Israeli proxies such as Moab Hassan Youssef) at face value, lest those stalwarts be accused on anti-Semetism for contradicting Israel's official stance. The Zio-oligarchic mainstream Western media and its umpteen subsidiaries world over have completely overlooked the lengthy list of pro-Israel announcements made by Mr Putin which Mr Andrew Korybko has tirelessly highlighted over and again. Russia cannot be expected to wear a placard around its chest all the time pleading its innocence in the Hamas' tussle with Israel. If Israel is determined to believe and preach that Russia is fighting against it via proxies such as Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah, let the Israelis bask happily in their convictions, why should it be Russia's responsibility to "disturb" their strong beliefs ? When all of the surrogates of the Zio-oligarchic mass media across the world are hell-bent upon fomenting the false notion that the Hamas is a handmaiden of Russia, and more especially in India where the subsidiaries of Zio-oligarchic Western media are bluntly bemoaning that Russia is "backstabbing India by supporting Hamas against Israel which is supposedly a staunch ally of India", there is pretty little Russia can do to allay such erroneous perceptions engendered world over by the mass media. Even if Russia makes official statements a zillion times over to clarify its "principled neutrality", such clarifications will nevertheless be blacked out by the Zio-oligarchic mass media whose agenda at the moment is to paint Russia as a sworn enemy of the Jews. Since issuing clarifications in favour of "Jews or Israel" is going to serve no useful purpose under the present circumstances, I do not find fault with Russia's brilliant strategy of maintaining strategic ambiguity, nor do I blame the ALT Media stalwarts who have been nurturing that notion, no matter whether misinformed or otherwise.
As for Potemkinism, that is a pervasive phenomenon which has not spared the Zelensky regime ensconced in Kiev either. The Israelite colonist Zelensky swears by Judaism, and his fans in Israel hail his deeds as a pious endeavour for creation of Greater Israel in historic Kherson and Crimea, and yet this very same Zelensky had zero qualms about recruiting tens of thousands of Banderaist Catholic-fundamentalist Neo Nazis of Jewish holocaust vintage into the Azov militia regiments headed by Ziofascist Jewish commanders, for slaughter of Slavic Ukrainians who deserted the army or refused to fight their Russian compatriots.
As for the question of "Tamudic psychos", some Rabbis in Israel have lately openly asserted that the Torah calls for slaughter of Christians and Hindus who are deemed idolaters. Such pronouncements have been made under provisions of Freedom of Speech in Israeli laws. Fine, No issues here, but in similar circumstances the Koran has been burnt in USA and Sweden, such events being motivated by reactionism to "Quranic psychos", under Freedom of expression statutes. Muslims have used derogatory terms such as "Talmudic psychos" under laws prevaing in the Islamic world. It is all a very symmetric affair which does not interest the larger world beyond the Middle East and Europe.
The Hamas had been catapulted to power in Gaza by the Israeli state under the aegis of Netanyahu, as per his own admission in a braggard fit, with the motive of preempting the likelihood of emergence of a viable Palestinian state having full statehood status. In other words, Netanyahu's Israel had intended to leverage the Hamas for sanitising the Palestinian populace by unleashing all of the raw ferocity of Hamas as witnessed in its October 7 carnage, on fellow Palestinians. It is a matter of fortuitous outcome that the genie has come out of the bottle to haunt its inventor since, and is giving nightmarish goosebumps to Netanyahu.
Witch hunt paranoia is now taking Israeli administrative circles by the storm in the same way in which it has been manifesting for past several months in the USA where innocent Americans have been subjected to arrest and criminal proceedings simply because they have voiced views about third countries which are disparate from the opinions which hold ubiquitous sway in Zio-oligarchic mainstream media. More than a dozen Israeli Jewish nationals of non-Ashkenazi extraction have been thrown into prison and are being subjected to brutal interrogatio on charges of complicity in Iranian-sponsored conspiracy to assassinate key figures in the cabinet and military intelligence. Accusing Iran of persecution of its Jews used to be a common refrain of Israeli authorities, now those authorities are themselves going in full throttle on a witch hunt against Asiatic and Iranian-origin Jews who are bonafide Israeli nationals but have been singled out for suspicion solely based on their land of origin.
Israeli Airforce had flown more than 1000 bombing sorties over Syria during the years when that country had been battling a major terrorist upheavel embodied by the ISIS, during which time not a single Hezbollah rocket had been fired into Israel but Israel on the other hand had been indulging in wanton relentless bombings of civilian targets in Syria including Biotech factories that produced import-substitution life saving cancer therapy denied by western pharma giants under sanctions regime. Israeli Airforce even fire bombed dozens of recently enrolled cadets to death at a military academy in Syria. Those bombings were undertaken by Israel as desperate measures to buttress the dwindling fortunes of its ISIS proxies facing imminent capitulation at hands of heroic Syrian defenders. Iran, Syria and Lebanon had long maintained a strategic restraint whereas Israel cannot claim the high moral ground in this respect. Israeli government has just asserted its right to retaliate against Iran at any time and place of its choosing, but circular arguments make such rights applicable to Iran as well in respect of the unprovoked bombings of civilians and policemen in Syria which had been conducted by Israel to scuttle Syrian civilian defenses against a terrorist ISIS on the decline. 80 percent of the armaments recovered from possession of ISIS battalions by Syrian forces after the capitulation of that scourge of mankind, bear Hebrew markings testifying to their Israeli origin. Those arms have since been put on permanent display in Syria for all those interested to see for themselves. Tonloads of a consignment of nerve gas precursors originating in Germany and arranged by the Mossad, which was destined for ending up in the hands of ISIS regiments for conducting a false flag carnage in Syria, were intercepted and seized by Syrian security enroute, thanks to a tipoff from Russian spy satellites. The Mossad's idea was to create a yet another alibi for an aerial bombing of Syrian towns as had been undertaken by American airforce on an earlier occasion under Trump's orders on ostensible pretext of punishing the Syrian state for planning to gas its own people. The Uieghur desperadoes in ISIS contingents trained and armed to the teeth by Israel, tortured umpteen innocent Syrian women to death by methods so gruesome as splicing their abdomens and stuffing smouldering embers inside, for having ignored diktats to enlist their sons for conscription into ISIS ranks or for defying orders to stop sending daughters to school. And western mediapersons made illegal trips to makeshift prison camps operated by the ISIS inside US-occupied Syrian territory, poked fun at the prisoners by remarking that they will likely never taste liberty again in their lifetime and most likely will perish from execution at hands of ISIS Kazis. Those hapless prisoners were Syrian officials who had defied ISIS diktats to quit government jobs, and had been consequently abducted by the ISIS terrorists to make a horrible example of them. In any event, now as on earlier occasions, there are no chances of any escalation of the Israel-Iran standoff to the point of nuclear exchange because none of the parties to the conflict possess demonstrable nuclear weapons capability, so it is safe for the larger world beyond that region to sit back and relax. Since Iran now enjoys strategic parity with Israel, the resulting detente serves as a reliable stabilising factor in the Mideast.
Like it's strategic ambiguity on Russia's end, well wishers on the anti-Zionist side looking for a counter-nato, and in Pepe's case he may be paid by Russia + Iran to push this narrative because Tehran wants to look less isolated and strong as possible.
Mr. Korybko, Israel is not a friend of Russia. Israel is the best friend and best ally (actually the true political controller through AIPAC) of Russia's worst enemy the USA. The best friend of my worst enemy is also my enemy. Israel even recently bombed areas near the Russian air base in Latakia.
Meanwhile, Israel's enemies, like Syria, Iran and the Palestinian Resistance Movements, are more friends and allies of Russia. Those friends desperately need S400s and S500s to defend themselves against Israeli carpet bombing. S400s and S500s are purely defensive weapons.
The question then is, why isn't Russia sending S400s and S500s to Syria and Lebanon in order for those Russian-friendly countries to be able to defend themselves against Israeli bombing. By not doing that it appears that Russia is unwilling to help its friends and allies. That makes Russia a very unreliable partner. Actually a useless one. If Russia continues with this course of action, it will end up alone and isolated if it can't help its friends. Is that what Russia wants?
I will appreciate your response to this question. Thank you.
It's projection. Russia is a leading rival to the US Empire, so some of those who oppose its policies project their own hopes and dreams on Russia or China or Iran or anyone else who resist sthem.
Just like many Americans are projecting their hopes and dreams on either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, even when neither candidate actually gives a damn about those hopes and dreams. Consider it a combination of desperate hopes for things to get better and ignorance of Russia and its history.
True, it's a projection to a certain extent, but one of my main points is that it's allowed to proliferate without any behind-the-scenes nudging to push influencers in the direction of reflecting Russia's actual policy due to the "Potemkinist" strategy.
That top influencer who I referenced has misled many about Russia's policy on this, which its diplomats have worked hard to promulgate on Putin's orders, yet those who host him here think that he's done a great job getting people to love Russia (albeit on false pretexts).
Whether you agree with Article 282 and the National Guard helping to fight anti-Semitism, the fact is that these policies do indeed exist, yet they're selectively enforced as proven by the example that I mentioned of him regularly talking about "Talmudic psychopaths".
No average Russian or foreign guest could amplify such rhetoric through social media to more than 200,000 people (his combined X and Telegram reach) without fearing that they'd get in serious trouble.
He's also only referencing a Jewish Holy Book and not the Muslim one, which is another reason for the selective enforcement, since he wouldn't be able to post about "Quranic psychopaths" all the time while here in Russia or he'd most likely get in serious trouble.
So what we see is that there's a lack of consistency, and that's because those who are involved in "Potemkinism" (whether they're conscious of it or not, all that matters is that those who host them here are) are able to say and do what average people here can't.
Again, it's unimportant whether you agree with Russia's legal policies, my only point was in drawing attention to the inconsistency with which it's applied in order to further prove my hypothesis about "Potemkinism", which is my personal conclusion and not any "inside info".
I confess I know nothing about the alt-media figure you focused on, but I do know something about the people who tend to believe such things. There’s a lot of wishful thinking about Russia and China among disaffected Westerners, and that lends itself to projection of their hopes onto those 2 countries.
The thing is that nothing you said about Russia’s real intentions surprised me at all. Winston Churchill said that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but just MAYBE there was a key—Russian
national interests.
Anyone who studies Russian history, and tries to empathize with the Russian perspective, doesn’t find Vladimir Putin mysterious at all. In a way, he’s the easiest type of Russian leader to predict because he is a patriot.
Andrew obviously doesn't know anything about Russia at all. I recommend reading moon of Alabama and Martyanov to get a real idea of how the Kremlin thinks. Putin uses judo tactics that he learned in the KGB when he plays chess. The Kremlin is only pretending to support Israel to get bibis guard down and than when the time is right Shoigu will strike and Palestine will be free (Shoigu is still running the military, Putin just pretended to fire him to trick Mossad and the CIA).
"...the impression that casual observers have is that there must be some truth to it otherwise corrective action would have already been taken..."
Impressions, important though they are, aren't always helpful. It's quite possible even casual observers, 'casual' though they may be, understand more than might be superficially apparent.
"...no one should expect the AMC to correct the false perceptions that “Potemkinism” associated with Russian policy towards Israel."
No, fair enough. But no-one has to expect anything of anyone to wonder how Putin reconciles, "...Russia (has always) support[ing](ed) a two-state solution..." with "...Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinians...".
"...Israel’s destruction and the imposition of sanctions against it that aren’t first approved by the UNSC."
'Destruction' is rather an emotive word. If the conditions on which a state was founded by the UN really do prove impossible to implement, given decades of sincere attempts, 'disbanding' the state to rebuild in on a basis more likely to be successful could hardly be considered 'destruction'. Something like 'resurrection' might be more appropriate; something like what happened to Russia, when the 'Soviet Experiment' proved unsuccessful?
As far as I'm aware, neither Putin nor anyone else has really addressed this question directly. In such an information vacuum it's hardly surprising people, like those representing the AMC, struggle to find sense in the confusion.
Putin directly addressed Ahmadinejad's call to destroy Israel, which he was informed was a misreporting but still stuck to his strong condemnation of that rhetoric and the idea behind it:
“Vladimir Putin: A response to your question could take hours. It’s so complex. I will try to be as concise as possible. First, I have repeatedly voiced Russia’s official stance – Iran has the right for a peaceful nuclear program and it cannot be singled out for discrimination. Second, we need to be aware that Iran is located in a very challenging region. I have told our Iranian partners about that. That’s why Iranian threats made towards neighbouring countries, in particular Israel, threats that Israel can be destroyed, are absolutely unacceptable. This is counterproductive.
Oksana BOYKO: This is not a proper quote of the Iranian president.
Vladimir Putin: It doesn’t quite matter whether it’s a proper quote or not. It means it’s best to avoid a wording that could be improperly quoted or could be interpreted differently. That’s why the focus on Iran does have a reason behind it.” – Visit to Russia Today television channel, 11 June, 2013
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/18319
I also explained here how my personal reading of the Kremlin's policy is that it's against fundamentally revolutionizing the current nature of the Israeli state because of how this process could be weaponized against Russians in the Near Abroad:
https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-and-the-resistance-axis-will
What else helps contextualize this is that Putin is a proud lifelong philo-Semite:
https://orientalreview.su/2018/05/10/president-putin-on-israel-quotes-from-the-kremlin-website/
(^^^ I got the quote above from this analysis that I published back in mid-2018)
Putting it all together, my impression is that he might think that risks "ethnic cleansing" given how sensitive he is towards Jewish interests, which is also why he volunteered to condemn terrorism against Israel yesterday despite not being asked about it.
"...analysis that I published back in mid-2018..."
Not to deride the value of your analysis, but six and a half years is a long time.
"... my impression is that he might think that risks "ethnic cleansing" given how sensitive he is towards Jewish interests, which is also why he volunteered to condemn terrorism against Israel yesterday despite not being asked about it."
More to the point, I value your impressions, having familiarised myself with your work, no less than I do your analysis. Thank you for sharing!
Questions of ethnic cleansing and Jewish interests, I would have thought, must be subject to some significant revision recently, particularly in view of the way the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon (soon to include Iran?) have evolved. Condemning terrorism isn't the same as condoning ethnic cleansing. I can't believe even the most doggedly 'proud lifelong philo-Semite' could abstain from reviewing the situation (forever).
"Putin directly addressed Ahmadinejad's call to destroy Israel..." Visit to Russia Today television channel, 11 June, 2013
Yes, I had seen that before, thanks for pointing it out again. What an excellent interview! Funnily enough, it seems even better now in retrospect than it ever has before (and I've seen it several times). Actually, I think that's probably always been the case: it seems to get better and better each time I revisit it. Again, thanks again for pointing it out!
Arguably, evolution is the reason and basis for everything (natural). Logically, it applies to politics, and the ideas of even the greatest statesmen may not be cast in stone, untouchable and unchanged by events and forces any more than anyone else's. I'm sure Putin would agree. Все мы ходим под Богом.
'A week is a long time in politics.' (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/
a_week_is_a_long_time_in_politics) and a decade is even longer! I'm sure Putin's most fundamental ideas about the concept of 'destruction' (as Boyko pointed out was, "... not a proper quote...".) remain essentially unchanged. This was, however, a human's feasible short-term gestation period (eight months) before the morons of McCain et al unleashed their 'Revolution of Dignity' on the Ukraine; on the eve of the US President's (then Obama's) visit, about which Putin was painfully aware: "So right on the eve of my meeting with Barack Obama, you are pushing me to make some serious statements…". If memory serves, this was a year or so before that very same President declared he had reduced Russia's economy to 'tadders' as punishment for actions it had been forced to take in the Crimea; long, long before they'd likewise been forced to stick to a similar line, after some 16+ thousands of casualties inflicted by NATO (supported) shelling of the Donbas. I find it difficult to conceptually drive any belief system to support the idea Putin's, EVEN Putin's, most fundamental perceptions of many, many things haven't evolved and changed in all this time.
Furthermore, and more importantly, I disagree that "Putin directly addressed Ahmadinejad's call to destroy Israel...". Whichever way I read it, it's more about Iran's "...right for a peaceful nuclear program..." than it is about underlying issues in the region. I blame Boyko for this: her question tried to encompass so much that she left too much room for Putin to effectively avoid answering. Simonyan played an equally important role, "She’s our tough guy.". Together they gave Putin more than enough latitude to slide around the issue without ever really addressing it directly.
I posit and maintain: this information vacuum still exists.
Only partially related. I found that you have an extra grasp and sensitivity about words and semantics, perhaps linguistics as well. It is interesting to read your writings.
What a wonderful compliment — thank you very much!
To avoid false modesty, I should say Russian did this for me: had I not learnt Russian, I might have remained as ignorant of language — semantics and psycho-/socio-linguistics — as I had been before I'd started.
{sincere attempts}... should be put in quotes. Israelis were never sincere.
Yeah, I hear you, and in principle/by spirit am inclined to agree. I think Putin errs to giving excessive leeway, which I'd like to hear him admit. It might be a mistake. Nonetheless, I follow his lead here and risk erring to an unfairly lax attitude. It's so difficult being a parent: spare the rod and spoil the child, or undermine credibility... ? But, yes, I hear you.
"The consequent confusion is exacerbated among those who are aware of Article 282 from the Russian Criminal Code prohibiting the “Incitement of Hatred or Enmity, as Well as Abasement of Human Dignity”"
All of which Israel is guilty of in spades, and which can't have gone unnoticed by the Russian public. I'm assuming public opinion carries some weight in Russia and is factored into their policies, but all that aside, of what value to Russia is the state of Israel?
Not much that I can see. Iran, with ten times the population and a vastly larger territory, much of it undeveloped, should be of much greater interest I'd think. Add to this that China gets about 15% of its energy from Iran and nothing at all from Israel, and again it seems like Iran should weigh more heavily in the equation, given Russia's close relationship with China.
Then there's the Muslim factor - 10% of Russia's population, which in the present circumstances I'm sure heavily disapproves of Russia's relationship with Israel. Also consider that the Zionist element in the USA are major architects of the war on Russia itself, via their proxies in Ukraine.
All of this begs the question: how much Zionist influence is there in Russia? Quite frankly I'm disgusted to see Israel treated as if they were somehow of importance to Russia and not as the pariah they truly are. Granted there are Russians living there, but they made their choice. Russia is very emphatic about patriotism, so how is it those dual citizens get a pass when their loyalties are obviously divided, and now that the chips are down they want to come home? They made their bed. Let them lie in it.
Article 282 and the National Guard cracking down on anti-Semitism in cooperation with the Federation of Jewish Communities isn't relevant to what anyone is doing outside its jurisdiction.
My point in referencing them is to show that selective standards are being applied when it comes to enforcing these legal policies. An average Russian or foreign guest here couldn't express themselves like that.
Why this is important to be aware of is because it serves as proof of my "Potemkinism" hypothesis, which to be clear, is my own personal conclusion based on close observation as I explained and not any "inside info".
I agree with your main premise. Russia allows a distorted view of their foreign policy to go unhindered as they believe it somehow advances their cause. Have I got that right?
My point is that their actual policy sucks because it involves a double standard. In short, a nation's foreign policy should reflect its fundamental values. That doesn't mean they should interfere directly in another nation's affairs - that's the US approach - but neither should they turn a blind eye to the kind of horrors being perpetrated in Palestine as we speak.
Frankly I don't understand Putin's apparent love of Israel. If ever there was a Potemkin village, Israel is IT, and recent events are just icing on the cake. The hallmark of a true intellect is to admit when you're wrong, and Putin seems incapable of doing that. Surely he must be aware that the problems Russia faces in Ukraine are a product of US Zionists and their Ukrainian counterparts - the same people that unconditionally support Israel.
I don't know if 10-07 was a surprise or it was allowed to happen to advance a larger agenda, but in either case Hamas forced the world's attention on what Israel has always been - an apartheid state founded on British perfidy and Zionist ambitions. Putin may not recognize that, but I'm sure most Russians do, in particular the Muslim population, which raises another point. A significant number of nations considering membership in the BRICS alliance are culturally Muslim, and by not calling out Israel he risks undermining their trust. What's he going to do when Chechens start answering the call and are seen fighting alongside Hezbollah? Condemn them as antisemitic? Arrest them on their return to Russia? Again it begs the question: how much influence do Zionists have on Russian foreign policy?
That's correct, you understand my point about Potemkinism.
Russia and Putin haven't turned a blind eye to the humanitarian horrors of this conflict and routinely condemn it. The exact formulation that they use is condemning Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinians.
I explained in one of the hyperlinked analyses in my article why Russia and the Resistance will never fully agree on Palestine, which partially accounts for its stance.
As for Russian Muslims, like I also wrote, the National Guard is now tasked with cracking down on anti-Semitism and I'm sure that the domestic security services are following all such manifestations in that community which could pose a threat.
It is really unfortunate that Mr. Korybko keeps peddling the Zionists assertion that Israel is in mortal danger and all around want to destroy it. For years that has not been the case, with Palestinians willing to accept either a two state solution or a one state solution with everyone having equal rights. Israel's security is not under threat. What is under threat is its ever expanding borders while conducting ethnic clensing and maintaining apartheid within its borders with its own Arab citizens (I suggest Mr. Korybko reads Amnesty International or B'Tselem's reports concluding without any doubt that Israel is an Apartheid state).
And there is no case to be made about assertions of "Talmudic psychos" as being hate crimes since this is right on the spot, for everyone that has ever watched Israeli made interviews with certain members of Israeli government or other characters imbued with messianic fervor. The Zionists are very proud of their actions and don't hide their hand any longer, it is all over the internets and one can see their glee - there are now libraries about it and documentaries being made. Palestinians or Iranians want the end to Apartheid (Zionist entity), which is legalized in the Israel's Basic Law. Israel has consciously avoided so far to have a Constitution... But the present war has shown to the entire world the true face of the majority of Israelis... I would challenge Mr. Korybko to watch all these manifestations and then describe them with words, and then compare with what he acuses of being hate speech and then see where he would stand...
As for Russian position, it is quite clear and not very unusual. Not different from any of the GCC members and also not hypocritical either, like Canada or Hungary, for instance (Canada more than Hungary). At the last legal pronouncement of ICJ, at the behest of UNGA, on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands, both Canada and Hungary have submitted legal opinions on support of Israel's occupation. However, while Hungary has done it on the record, for the whole world to see and hear, Canada has done it via a sealed package, to be read only by the judges and ICJ secretariat. Such forqued tongue, on one side affirming the two state solution and on the other hand, on the legal front, defending Israel's occupation. Something Russia never did. Also, Azerbaidjan sells and ships oil to Israel via Turkey, both muslim countries...
You are extraordinarily legalistic in your approach. Unless you have some secret access to Russian, thinking, I see no justification in your criticism of the AMC. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I know of no evidence that Russia is supplying Israel with arms or defense systems. Nor am I aware that Israel has supplied arms or air defense systems to Russia. On the other hand, Russia has supplied these items to Iran and vice versa. That is what counts, not legalistic diplomatic language. Russia wants to be seen as following the rules laid out in the UN charter and in traditional international relations since the US and NATO allies, and Israel I must add, make their own rules. Russia is not stupid. Putin knows Israel is the USA’s catspaw. The people you are criticizing (attacking?)
aren’t stupid. You take things at face value instead of analyzing events. Your impugning pecuniary motives to the thought leaders of the AMC community only makes you look petty.
Just this past summer, right in the middle of the Israeli rampage in Gaza, Putin sent congratulations to a Jewish event that celebrated the Salvation and Liberation Day. So did Netanyahu and Herzog. Putin condemned anti-Semitism, radical nationalism and xenophobia as per usual, of course:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent congratulations on Salvation and Liberation Day, the youngest Jewish holiday celebrated since 2013 in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the salvation of the Jewish people from the Holocaust. The holiday was established on the initiative of Vice President of the Russian Jewish Congress, President of the International Charitable Foundation of Mountain Jews STMEGI German Zakharyaev, and the date chosen for this day is 26 Iyar (this year it is June 3).
"I congratulate you on the holiday - the Day of Salvation and Liberation," Vladimir Putin said in his message. "The 26th of Iyar is one of the most important, significant dates in the centuries-old history of the Jewish people. It connects eras and generations, embodies the unfading memory of the Great Victory, the immortal feat of the soldiers and commanders of the Red Army who crushed Nazism, saved the Jewish and other peoples from the threat of destruction. And, of course, this is a tribute of deep, sincere respect for the people who, in the most difficult trials, showed fortitude and courage, did not submit to the cruel and merciless enemy. I am confident that the widespread celebration of the Day of Salvation and Liberation enriches the historical, religious, cultural traditions of Russian Jews, promotes the advancement in society, especially among the youth, of high spiritual, moral, patriotic ideals and values. Serves to consolidate efforts in countering radical nationalism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism. I wish you success in implementing your plans and all the best.""
https://rjc.ru/ru/news/2659-lideryi-rossii-i-izrailya-pozdravili-evreev-s-dnem
How many Jews are in Russia? There's your answer.
How many Jews are in Jordan? But they put planes in the air to defend Israel against the Iranian attacks... The word is that Russia might have provided targeting info to Iranians this last round and that they are helping with AD systems against a potential Israeli/US attack...
1. When Putin or any Russian official says something that aligns with AMC priors, then he is taken at his word. When a Russian official says something that contradicts those prioritizing, it's a headfake.
This is QAnon logic, repurposed for a different set of fantasies.
2. There is no eleven dimensional chess here, no master plan, no secret Russian omnicompetence, and pretending otherwise will not change this.
You're just butthurt because the alt media disagrees with Russia's position on Israel. The public sees the injustice and suffering of the Palestinian people so it will never agree or support Russia's position which is two faced in this regard.
Riiight, I, the same person who was defamed by the State Department as an anti-Semite for my anti-Zionist analyses in mid-2020, am "butthurt" because other people don't agree with Russia's position on Israel:
https://x.com/AKorybko/status/1726133288509538416
Get real. I don't care whether anyone agrees or disagrees with it, what I'm against is misportraying its policy by pretending that Russia is anti-Israel/-Zionist and pro-Palestinian when it's neutral, and if anything, it leans towards Israel (Putin is a lifelong philo-Semite).
You're blocked for personally attacking me ("You're a Zionist apologist"), which I have zero tolerance for. I encourage respectfully expressed contrarian views, court them even, but I won't allow trolls to disrespect me here and toxify the community that I'm building.
It's very dishonest of you to now pretend that the prevailing narrative among the Alt-Media Community is that Russia isn't allied with Israel against Iran. You can reference Pepe Escobar, Maram "Syrian Girl" Susli, and other big names as proof of "Potemkinism" in practice on this subject.
You won't dare direct your anger at Russia's regional policy against the country itself, Putin, or his officials since you know you'll be "canceled" by Alt-Media, so you instead abuse me as a scarecrow who you can attack with impunity. That's unacceptable and weak. I have zero respect and those like you.
"Putin is a lifelong philo-Semite". OK but, theoretically, this should not influence his or Russia's policy in the Levant.
Mr Itamar Bin Gvir commands far greater respect and following in Israel than many other leaders of the far-right movement, because he is perceived to be a man of his word who does not indulge in loose talk. Even his detractors agree on this point. However, the Hungarian settler Daniella Weiss is hardly anything more than a garrulous rabble rouser, who has seldom shown the capabilty to follow through on her empty threats. She is known to be a jealous woman, and it is possible that she might secretly be competing with Mr Itamar Ben Gvir for the confidence and trust of his constituency.
The architects of the idea of Greater Israel as extending from the Euphrates to the Nile, have clearly also spoken about the imperative need to settle the town of Medina in Saudi Arabia with Jewish settlers after cleansing the settlement with purification rituals. The town is to be renamed Jethro and Muslim inhabitants to be peacefully expelled to Riyadh. Mr Itamar Ben Gvir is the only charismatic personality amongst Israeli hardliners who commands professional respect in the Arab Gulf littoral as well, and he is the only person who can fructify the dream of Greater Israel in an entirely peaceful manner via friendly negotiations with Arab stakeholders such ad Saudi Arabia, and ensure a just financial resettlement compensation package to the oustees. It is reported that the plan might be implemented in a phased manner, and the projected Saudi town of Neom in Northern Hijaz might become the first Saudi settlement to be transferred into Israeli hands as a dress rehearsal for the peaceful and congenial implementation of the projected Greater Israel accords.
Why are persisting in defending a Nazi state like Israel is beyond my comprehension. Of course Putin wants to protect Israel. However, it is obvious to everyone that Israel is pulling the USA into a third world war, to which obviously Putin and most of the world is definitely against. Furthermore, the majority of people around the world, including Palestinians, understand well there is a big difference between Zionist Jews and the Jewish religion.
In the view of many analysts, Israel is little more if anything than a defacto corporate office of a quasi Phoenician business empire straddling entire oceans across multiple continents. The wealth of those entire continents is being milked by this cliche for enriching Israel which is actually incapable of independent self sustenance. The history of Israel is the story of its chosen people, and Russia has next to nothing to directly do with its creation, sustenance or its alleged ravages. Mr Putin has never shown any patronising will to "protect" Israel and does not believe in uninvited intrusion on anyone's privacy. Neither has Israel ever sought protection from Mr Putin, as it deems it sacriligeous to imagine that anyone save Yahweh deserves the compliment for being its benefactor. Russia is not a party to the sibling rivalry tug of war between Hamas and Netanyahu. In her interviews, Palestinian Queen of Jordan, Rania Al Hussein has condoned the campus crackdowns on Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in America by suggesting that anti-Semetism is a real meance which campus authorities owe a responsibility to the world to nip in the bud. So, what some misinformed quarters are interpreting as a proxy war between Russia and the west, is actually simply a manifestation of a factional intrafamily or intranecine Palestinian dispute or discord. It is not fair to ascribe motives to Mr Putin based on a cursory observation of the IDF-Hamas engagement or the Iran-Israel strategic detente.
A very large number of sex therapy clinics have sprung up across Israel in recent years. In most of those clinics, the government of Israel pays the clinic owners or so called sex-therapists, for "sexual rehabilitation" of such Israeli military personnel who have lately been suffering loss of libido in the aftermath of combat injuries, or from depression consequent upon remorse for excesses committed upon adversaries in the line of military duty. Israeli soldiers are by convention bereft of the liberty to voice their personal remorse or feelings of guilt in public, or even to friends in the military or amongst civilian populace. The pent up feelings of guilt as pitted against a lifetime of self superior and self rectitudinal indoctrination, result in a conflict of psychology which has been wreaking havoc with the mental health of Israeli soldiers. And the government of Israel in its enlightened wisdom has decided that pampering such "traumatized" soldiers with bounties of lascivious extramarital carnal indulgence, is the best remedy for all of those mental and psychological ailments engendered by circumstances of their military assignments. In those sex therapy clinics, male Israeli soldiers are retaught the ABC of love making from scratch, by female psychologists in a very seductive and lewd environment, laden with sexually explicit scenes painted all over the walls and outright vulgar language and tone used by those psychologists. But the icing on the cake is the mandatory practical sessions, which invariably follow those didactic lectures and interactive one to one dialogues between male Israeli soldier and his female sex therapist. At the end of those sessions, the soldier is retired to a Cosy room sporting all the features of a luxury brothel, and provided a real female sexual partner who is little more than a sexual serf, for enacting all of his latent and dirty sexual fantasies on that unfortunate women. In fact, just prior to commencement of those "practical" sessions which are nothing short of legalised prostitution subsidized by the government, the real life spouses of those Israeli soldiers are summoned to the clinic, and cajoled to encourage their husbands to shed off all inhibitions before undertaking their libidinous feat of impressive performance in that brothel, and to assure those husbands that they should not worry in the least about embarrassment from their wives. The wives are told that those carnal liaisons in the brothel are simply part of the state's endeavour to keep Israeli Army in fit shape, and are something the whole nation must unquestioningly feel proud about. The male soldiers are also especially warned by their therapist or instructor, not to get carried away by allowing soft feelings to develop in their hearts for their one night stand female partners, who are to be treated as beings with no greater status than temporary sex mannequins. The million dollar question is, who are the women who are being trafficked by the Israeli sex therapy public- private partnership syndicate into those brothels for satiating the carnal appetite of Israeli soldiers and wayward Israeli male civilians? The Torah proscribed adultery and prescribes death by stoning for the act. As such, it is most unlikely that the Israeli state will incentivate female Israeli Jewish nationals to prostitute themselves in those state-patronized brothels. It is highly suspected that unsuspecting Palestinian Muslim women, picked up under pretext of routine questioning by the IDF, are being thrown for sexual exploitation amounting to rape in those brothels, and are then being forced to keep silent about those monstrosities for the rest of their lives out of fear of social stigmatization if the Mossad goes overboard with defaming them by revealing spicy details of their coerced sexual encounters with Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian Queen of Jordan Rania, who is regarded as Um Al Falastin by her subjects in Jordan, loves Israel like her own child. She pacifies her impulsive husband, by titillating that man's carnal taste buds with the sensuous delights of her bewitching body, and murmurs a lullaby into his ears at copulation time, wailing in lament about the fate of Gaza and begging that man at the very same time to defend Israel with all his might. The Hashemite King of Jordan suffers from a familial weakness for blonde flesh, and dances to the lascivious tunes of his Palestinian wife like a spinning top. Palestinian Queen Rania sports the sex appeal of Bella Hadid and is the heart throb of umpteen Israeli fans. She has fulfilled her job of defending Israel like a real mother, as if Israel were her blood son, in the same way in which a cat protects its kittens. In Jordan, She is regarded as role model par excellence for all Palestinians who adore her like their mother. Palestinian Queen Rania Al Hussein speaks flawless American English in impeccable cowboy accent, and is the posterwoman of Palestinian feminity. Her sex appeal is held in high acclaim and esteem throughout Israel. Israeli troops enamored of her sex appeal have come to entertain very high opinions of the prurience of the Palestinian woman, and as such, Palestinian women who are picked up for routine questioning by Israeli troops and are subsequently trafficked as sex slaves into sex-therapy clinics burgeoning across Israel, have become such a popular rage among the Israeli soldiers undergoing copulatory liasons with those women under pretext of sexual rehabilitation in those clinics, so much so that popular pressure has forced the Israeli government to pay the fees of those clinics from its exchequer.
When hundreds of Palestinian women are ordered by Israeli troops to line up squatting on the ground and disrobe upto their underwear including removal of their blouse and bra, as part of routine roundup and interrogation protocol, many of them find it prudent to comply instead of offering resistance, because they know the price of refusal only too well, and often behave or pretend as if they are enjoying their predicament and obtaining equal sensuous gratification from it as their captors. This strategy of survival under adversity has worked remarkably well, and has in many cases had a sobering or softening effect on the minds of their Israeli male captors, to the jealous chagrin of female Israeli colleagues in the IDF. Some Israeli soldiers have become so emotionally attached and sexually attracted to their female Palestinian prisoners, that a spate of defiance or reluctance has caught the ranks of Israeli Army by the storm, because love-struck Israeli soldiers are beginning to feel deep sense of guilt and remorse at tormenting the clansmen of their bewitching Palestinian darlings. Any middle eastern who knows his country well will vouch safe for the magical sensuous beauty of the Palestinian woman which can blow many an austere sage away. But the irony is that the Israeli government has its own way of dealing with the rising tide of dissidence in the IDF ranks, and it dangles the lure of free and secret sexual intercourse with captive Palestinian women trafficked into state-sponsored brothels euphemistically labeled sex-therapy clinics, as bait for dispelling feelings of ineptitude or loss of interest among those soldiers, in the belief that the enthralling fulfillment of pleasurable intercourse with a Palestinian woman is the best Panacea for all distractions afflicting the Israeli Army cadre, no matter whether such intercourse be consensual or coerced. Israelis have a very regard for the effeminate motherly instinct of Palestinian woman, who is both an avid playmate in bed with her husband as well as a dedicated breastfeeder to her toddlers at the same time, and count on the motherly clout of Palestinian Queen Rania on Jordanian subjects, as well as her bewitching carnal overtures before her Hashemite Royal beau, as the best guarantors of peace between Israel and Arabs. Israel trusts the motherly affection for Israelis which Queen Rania bears in her Palestinian heart. In Jordan, her subjects trust her completely and call her Um Al Falastin out of affection, viz. the mother who has dutifully protected her children from the wrath of Israel, by means of her reconciliatory congenial overtures to Israel. But in complying with orders from Israeli troops to disrobe and bare their boobs, Palestinian women are unwittingly incentivating a vicious circle of subsequent prostitution of other Palestinian women who are forcibly trafficked into sex therapy clinics for intercourse with Israeli soldiers infatuated with puppy love for prurient Palestinian flesh. They had better realise that there are times when a firm No is the only right option, no matter what the price !
For decades, Israeli policy makers have been fully cognizant of (and made good use to their political advantage) of the dictum that foreign policy of Jordan has long been the outcome of impressionable modification of the Hashemite male Bedouin psyche during intimate fluid bonding with true blonde Lisa Hallaby and pseudo blonde Rania, who have been nicknamed the Beduoin's Marylin and Doris respectively, in allusion to high esteem of the alluring pleasurability of physical intimacy with the bewitching Palestinian female in Bedouin folklore.
Queen Rania is the uncrowned brand ambassador of the salubrious and gratifying nuptial worth of a Palestinian woman, and Israel has long counted on the lure of her red lipstick and her trademark effeminate charm for pacifying an increasingly restive Jordanian populace.
Palestinian women pride themselves on being the most sexually emancipated beings in the entire Muslim world. Dating before marriage is forbidden by convention among Palestinian women, but their male suitors have improvised a way of getting around such constraints in the form of likes of the investiture ceremony in which the wannabe suitor gently palpates, cuddles and caresses the skin of would be Palestinian wife from nipples to buttock from beneath her Abaya, and keeps his glance fixated on her face for subtle clues as to her sexual arousal as evinced from her facial expression and oomph groans. This is a handy pH meter, for determining or estimating the carnal worth of a would be spouse. The dowry money goes up with the sensuous excitability of the woman, and this price tag obviously remains high even in the cheapest instances. While affording a Palestina for a wife is deemed a luxury in Arab world, even in Israel, the alluring sensuous appeal of Palestinian woman is talk of the town among male recruits in the IDF, and Israeli government pays sex-therapy clinics in Israel for arranging copulatory sessions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian women, in the considered belief that carnal knowledge of a Palestinian woman trafficked into those veritable brothels remains the best Panacea for all ills plaguing the Israeli army such as ineptitude and lackadaisical disinterest, depression, detection and inertia. Palestinian women are released from bondage after exhaustive coerced one night stand copulation with Israeli soldiers, and warned to keep mum at the cost of loss of reputation, and sternly warned to nonchalantly go about business as usual such as daily chores of suckling their infants and looking after their kids after returning back to their families, as if nothing had happened to them in captivity.
I fully appreciate the apprehensions raised by Mr Andrew Korybko regarding possible consequences of the conundrum engendered by conflicting signals from the Kremlin; yet at the same time I remain confident of the reassurance that Mr Putin is a master strategist who knows what he is doing. Observers can safely relax and wait for things to unfold soon.
Leading stalwarts in that part of the so called Muslim world which remains economically or militarily aligned with the west, have been publically articulating their opinion claiming that Russia is a land of infidels, and that the Russian leadership has no concern for well-being of either the Palestinians or of the Al Aqsa mosque, but is simply interested in misusing them as pawns and cannon fodder for opening a second front to engage American and NATO militaries and thereby ease the pressure on Russian forces embroiled in Ukraine. Now, whether anyone agrees with me or not, it is my firm conviction based on positive evidence in my possession, that Israel and Ziofascist think tanks are instrumental in fostering such a notion. My counter-question to the zombies who fall for such clickbaits, however, is why on earth should Russia or say Mr Andrew Korybko or any XYZ Russian for that matter be expected to shoulder the "responsibility" of Al Aqsa mosque, when in complete concordance with Islamic jurisprudence, that responsibility has long been assumed by the Jordanian Waqf board which has since been doing a splendid job at that. If any Muslim resents the current state of affairs of the Al Aqsa mosque, the proper channel for addressing his concerns would be for him to approach or seek audience with the Jordanian Waqf board, instead of the stupid act of taking Russia to task for supposed "abdication of responsibilities towards Islam and Muslims" . It is not Russia, but the half British Hashemite Hijazi King Hussein, who is the custodian of Al Aqsa mosque; so any bickerings Muslims might have regarding that mosque need to be thrashed out with King Hussein and his Palestinian Queen consort Rania alone. Russia does not come anywhere in the picture because
Russia has never advertised itself as a pharmacy from where any disgruntled person might obtain a panacea potion to heal all personal woes of all time. The Sibling rivalry between Hamas and Israel can only be ameliorated as and when the two belligerents come to talking terms on their own accord or volition, and forcing a truce between them is not Russia's responsibility, or of You and Me for that matter.
Besides, Israel's closest state-adjacent protege and spokesman in the Islamic world, Moab Hassan Yousseff, has repeatedly levelled the charge on public platforms, in which he has personally blamed Mr Vladimir Putin for planning, masterminding and orchestrating the October 7 carnage wrought by Hamas, and blamed Iran for having supervised and conducted it. So, there you have it; when Israel does not back off from its false accusations of blaming Russia for the doings of Hamas, how can anyone in his right mind preach sermons to Russia about the need for rectifying its "reputation" for the sake of "Russia's obligation to the Jewish people". I mean to say that the so-called ALT Media stalwarts who are engendering the impression that Russia is covertly supporting the AXIS OF RESISTANCE against Israel, cannot be faulted on this account, because they are simply taking Israel's own pronouncements (made via state-adjacent Israeli proxies such as Moab Hassan Youssef) at face value, lest those stalwarts be accused on anti-Semetism for contradicting Israel's official stance. The Zio-oligarchic mainstream Western media and its umpteen subsidiaries world over have completely overlooked the lengthy list of pro-Israel announcements made by Mr Putin which Mr Andrew Korybko has tirelessly highlighted over and again. Russia cannot be expected to wear a placard around its chest all the time pleading its innocence in the Hamas' tussle with Israel. If Israel is determined to believe and preach that Russia is fighting against it via proxies such as Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah, let the Israelis bask happily in their convictions, why should it be Russia's responsibility to "disturb" their strong beliefs ? When all of the surrogates of the Zio-oligarchic mass media across the world are hell-bent upon fomenting the false notion that the Hamas is a handmaiden of Russia, and more especially in India where the subsidiaries of Zio-oligarchic Western media are bluntly bemoaning that Russia is "backstabbing India by supporting Hamas against Israel which is supposedly a staunch ally of India", there is pretty little Russia can do to allay such erroneous perceptions engendered world over by the mass media. Even if Russia makes official statements a zillion times over to clarify its "principled neutrality", such clarifications will nevertheless be blacked out by the Zio-oligarchic mass media whose agenda at the moment is to paint Russia as a sworn enemy of the Jews. Since issuing clarifications in favour of "Jews or Israel" is going to serve no useful purpose under the present circumstances, I do not find fault with Russia's brilliant strategy of maintaining strategic ambiguity, nor do I blame the ALT Media stalwarts who have been nurturing that notion, no matter whether misinformed or otherwise.
As for Potemkinism, that is a pervasive phenomenon which has not spared the Zelensky regime ensconced in Kiev either. The Israelite colonist Zelensky swears by Judaism, and his fans in Israel hail his deeds as a pious endeavour for creation of Greater Israel in historic Kherson and Crimea, and yet this very same Zelensky had zero qualms about recruiting tens of thousands of Banderaist Catholic-fundamentalist Neo Nazis of Jewish holocaust vintage into the Azov militia regiments headed by Ziofascist Jewish commanders, for slaughter of Slavic Ukrainians who deserted the army or refused to fight their Russian compatriots.
As for the question of "Tamudic psychos", some Rabbis in Israel have lately openly asserted that the Torah calls for slaughter of Christians and Hindus who are deemed idolaters. Such pronouncements have been made under provisions of Freedom of Speech in Israeli laws. Fine, No issues here, but in similar circumstances the Koran has been burnt in USA and Sweden, such events being motivated by reactionism to "Quranic psychos", under Freedom of expression statutes. Muslims have used derogatory terms such as "Talmudic psychos" under laws prevaing in the Islamic world. It is all a very symmetric affair which does not interest the larger world beyond the Middle East and Europe.
The Hamas had been catapulted to power in Gaza by the Israeli state under the aegis of Netanyahu, as per his own admission in a braggard fit, with the motive of preempting the likelihood of emergence of a viable Palestinian state having full statehood status. In other words, Netanyahu's Israel had intended to leverage the Hamas for sanitising the Palestinian populace by unleashing all of the raw ferocity of Hamas as witnessed in its October 7 carnage, on fellow Palestinians. It is a matter of fortuitous outcome that the genie has come out of the bottle to haunt its inventor since, and is giving nightmarish goosebumps to Netanyahu.
Witch hunt paranoia is now taking Israeli administrative circles by the storm in the same way in which it has been manifesting for past several months in the USA where innocent Americans have been subjected to arrest and criminal proceedings simply because they have voiced views about third countries which are disparate from the opinions which hold ubiquitous sway in Zio-oligarchic mainstream media. More than a dozen Israeli Jewish nationals of non-Ashkenazi extraction have been thrown into prison and are being subjected to brutal interrogatio on charges of complicity in Iranian-sponsored conspiracy to assassinate key figures in the cabinet and military intelligence. Accusing Iran of persecution of its Jews used to be a common refrain of Israeli authorities, now those authorities are themselves going in full throttle on a witch hunt against Asiatic and Iranian-origin Jews who are bonafide Israeli nationals but have been singled out for suspicion solely based on their land of origin.
Israeli Airforce had flown more than 1000 bombing sorties over Syria during the years when that country had been battling a major terrorist upheavel embodied by the ISIS, during which time not a single Hezbollah rocket had been fired into Israel but Israel on the other hand had been indulging in wanton relentless bombings of civilian targets in Syria including Biotech factories that produced import-substitution life saving cancer therapy denied by western pharma giants under sanctions regime. Israeli Airforce even fire bombed dozens of recently enrolled cadets to death at a military academy in Syria. Those bombings were undertaken by Israel as desperate measures to buttress the dwindling fortunes of its ISIS proxies facing imminent capitulation at hands of heroic Syrian defenders. Iran, Syria and Lebanon had long maintained a strategic restraint whereas Israel cannot claim the high moral ground in this respect. Israeli government has just asserted its right to retaliate against Iran at any time and place of its choosing, but circular arguments make such rights applicable to Iran as well in respect of the unprovoked bombings of civilians and policemen in Syria which had been conducted by Israel to scuttle Syrian civilian defenses against a terrorist ISIS on the decline. 80 percent of the armaments recovered from possession of ISIS battalions by Syrian forces after the capitulation of that scourge of mankind, bear Hebrew markings testifying to their Israeli origin. Those arms have since been put on permanent display in Syria for all those interested to see for themselves. Tonloads of a consignment of nerve gas precursors originating in Germany and arranged by the Mossad, which was destined for ending up in the hands of ISIS regiments for conducting a false flag carnage in Syria, were intercepted and seized by Syrian security enroute, thanks to a tipoff from Russian spy satellites. The Mossad's idea was to create a yet another alibi for an aerial bombing of Syrian towns as had been undertaken by American airforce on an earlier occasion under Trump's orders on ostensible pretext of punishing the Syrian state for planning to gas its own people. The Uieghur desperadoes in ISIS contingents trained and armed to the teeth by Israel, tortured umpteen innocent Syrian women to death by methods so gruesome as splicing their abdomens and stuffing smouldering embers inside, for having ignored diktats to enlist their sons for conscription into ISIS ranks or for defying orders to stop sending daughters to school. And western mediapersons made illegal trips to makeshift prison camps operated by the ISIS inside US-occupied Syrian territory, poked fun at the prisoners by remarking that they will likely never taste liberty again in their lifetime and most likely will perish from execution at hands of ISIS Kazis. Those hapless prisoners were Syrian officials who had defied ISIS diktats to quit government jobs, and had been consequently abducted by the ISIS terrorists to make a horrible example of them. In any event, now as on earlier occasions, there are no chances of any escalation of the Israel-Iran standoff to the point of nuclear exchange because none of the parties to the conflict possess demonstrable nuclear weapons capability, so it is safe for the larger world beyond that region to sit back and relax. Since Iran now enjoys strategic parity with Israel, the resulting detente serves as a reliable stabilising factor in the Mideast.
But Andrew, don't you know, it has been CONFIRMED and RE-CONFIRMED and RE-RE-CONFIRMED by my TOP SECRET ANONYMOUS MEGA BOOM BIG CENTRAL SOURCE!!!
Like it's strategic ambiguity on Russia's end, well wishers on the anti-Zionist side looking for a counter-nato, and in Pepe's case he may be paid by Russia + Iran to push this narrative because Tehran wants to look less isolated and strong as possible.
Mr. Korybko, Israel is not a friend of Russia. Israel is the best friend and best ally (actually the true political controller through AIPAC) of Russia's worst enemy the USA. The best friend of my worst enemy is also my enemy. Israel even recently bombed areas near the Russian air base in Latakia.
Meanwhile, Israel's enemies, like Syria, Iran and the Palestinian Resistance Movements, are more friends and allies of Russia. Those friends desperately need S400s and S500s to defend themselves against Israeli carpet bombing. S400s and S500s are purely defensive weapons.
The question then is, why isn't Russia sending S400s and S500s to Syria and Lebanon in order for those Russian-friendly countries to be able to defend themselves against Israeli bombing. By not doing that it appears that Russia is unwilling to help its friends and allies. That makes Russia a very unreliable partner. Actually a useless one. If Russia continues with this course of action, it will end up alone and isolated if it can't help its friends. Is that what Russia wants?
I will appreciate your response to this question. Thank you.