On Israel and the Nazis in Ukraine

What is the relationship between the Jewish state and those Jew-hating zealots who've been slaughtering Ukrainians in the East?

“Israel is confronted for the first time with what it could never have imagined: the support of its US protector [for] its historical enemy, Nazism.” Thus Thierry Meyssan begins his latest piece, “Israel stunned by Ukrainian neo-Nazis,” which gives us some essential history of exactly who those neo-Nazis are, what they’re after, and how the CIA, and such high-profile US players as Victoria Nuland, John McCain and Erik Prince—along with Ukrainian Jewish leader Ihor Kolimoyski— have variously nurtured them since the US “EuroMaidan” coup eight years ago. This ignominious history has been deliberately—and necessarily—wiped out by the propagandists currently idealizing “Ukraine” and demonizing Russia; and so I recommend it highly, hoping you will share the link (below).

And yet, while I appreciate the history that it so cogently recounts, I also find its thesis somewhat baffling:

Israel faces an unexpected problem in the Ukrainian crisis: is it true, as Moscow claims, that the country is in the hands of a "gang of neo-Nazis" financed by Ukrainian and American Jews? If so, it is a moral duty for Tel Aviv to clarify its position on Jews supporting Nazis, regardless of any position on the Ukrainian crisis.

What baffles me is this: How could Israel’s leadership deem Ukraine’s rampant neo-Nazi element “an unexpected problem,” when Israel itself has clearly, and materially, backed it since the coup? In other words, it’s not just some “Ukrainian and American Jews” who have abetted those bloodthirsty worshippers of Hitler’s memory, but Israel’s leadership—a fact that I reported, to the best of my ability, via News from Underground, back in 2014 and afterward.

On February 27, 2014, I sent out Max Blumenthal’s “Is the U.S. backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?” (published by Salon, which, though it continues to decry US cultivation of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis, also avidly promotes the anti-Russia propaganda line). Blumenthal noted that Svoboda had enjoyed a friendly sitdown with Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine:

Svoboda’s openly pro-Nazi politics have not deterred Senator John McCain from addressing [11] a EuroMaidan rally alongside Tyahnybok, nor did it prevent Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland from enjoying a friendly meeting [12] with the Svoboda leader this February. Eager to fend off accusations of anti-Semitism, the Svoboda leader recently hosted [13] the Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine. “I would like to ask Israelis to also respect our patriotic feelings,” Tyahnybok has remarked. [14] “Probably each party in the [Israeli] Knesset is nationalist. With God’s help, let it be this way for us too.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/

A few days later, I sent out “Ukraine and the ‘Politics of Anti-Semitism’: The West Upholds Neo-Nazi Repression of Ukraine’s Jewish Community,” by Michel Chossudovsky for Global Research, reporting that Ukrainian rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman had “asked Kiev Jews to leave the city and, if possible, the country, due to fears that Jews might be targeted [by Svoboda Brown Shirts] in the ongoing chaos,” adding that “some Jewish shops have been vandalized and other threats to the Jewish community have been received.”

I told my congregation to leave the city center or the city all together and if possible the country too… I don’t want to tempt fate…but there are constant warnings concerning intentions to attack Jewish institutions,” Rabbi Azman told Maariv.

In light of those clear portents of a Ukrainian Kristallnacht, leaders of Kiev’s Jewish community “contacted Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman requesting the assistance of Israel”—whose government did not reply, or otherwise acknowledge the anti-Jewish ferment in Ukraine. For all his routine bellowing attacks on “anti-semitism,” Netanyahu made no statement of concern (and neither did AIPAC); and Israeli media, reported Chossudovsky, “toes the line. The hate campaign against the Ukrainian Jewish community is not the object of concern. The Jerusalem Post casually dismisses the evidence of crimes committed against Ukraine’s Jewish community under the title:

“Although there is “no information of Jews being targeted” as of yet, Jewish institutions are under self-imposed lock-down”.

According to the JP, there is no “defined threat against them”:

“There is currently “no information of Jews being targeted, but there is a danger because of vigilante groups,” Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

“We have not seen any random attacks and we hope people are basically interested in law and order and not in mayhem,” he said, expressing his hope that protesters would begin turning in their arms tomorrow as scheduled.

“We are definitely worried about security and everybody should keep their guard up,” the American-born rabbi cautioned. “That’s because of the general situation. There are no threats that we know of.”

… There is a great deal of uncertainty among Kiev’s Jews, said one community member, speaking anonymously.She said that while there has been no direct threat against Jewish institutions, two Jews were attacked during the protests and the general feeling of insecurity pervading the city has affected its Jews as well.

Things will calm down within a week, but life is still far from normal at the moment, she said.” (Ukraine’s Jews ponder their future, Jerusalem Post-Feb 24, 2014)

Thus Israeli media were as complacent (or complicit) as their counterparts in the US. (The New York Review actually asserted that Ukraine’s “Jewish leaders have made a point of supporting the movement” led by Right Sector neo-Nazis.) The claim that “there are no threats that we know of” was especially egregious, since Israelis in Odessa had been under violent assault by neo-Nazis for some months before the US coup, as Ynet reported in mid-November of 2013:

Israelis who study in Odessa, Ukraine, are afraid to leave their apartments following neo-Nazi riots around the city, they say.

"I went out with my brother to play in a nearby yard, and on the way back, five minutes away from home, we were assaulted by more than 30 people aged 25-30, who came out of an alley. My brother, 19, managed to escape, but they circled me and gave me a terrific beating," one student recounted.

The student also described several instances of attacks targeting foreigners, some from Israel, but not all: "I know of a guy from Azerbaijan who left a restaurant and was murdered by these gangs. They beat him and stabbed him. There's a square here, where several Israelis from Rahat were attacked. Police officers were there, and I heard they saw the attack but couldn’t stop it.”

Yesterday I tried all day to get in contact with the Israeli embassy, and no one answered."

http://bit.ly/1clcHz2

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4452331,00.html

Some four years later, I shared Asa Winstanley’s exposé of Israel’s having armed the neo-Nazis slaughtering their Russian-speaking fellow-citizens in East Ukraine, and, a few months later, Eric Zeusse’s elaboration on such lethal military support:

Israel does this as part of the US-led coalition in support of the current racist-fascist Government of Ukraine, which Government was installed in a bloody coup that US President Barack Obama started planning by no later than 2011 and started operationalizing on 1 March 2013 and carried out in February 2014 under the cover of US State Department and CIA-generated anti-corruption mass demonstrations on Kiev’s Maidan square, but some of whose US-funded snipers have already gone public (though not in US ‘news’media) describing how they were hired to do it, and how they did it.

https://therealnews.com/stories/israel-is-arming-ukraines-blatantly-neo-nazi-militia-the-azov-battalion

https://www.globalresearch.ca/this-is-the-real-americanized-nazi-ukraine/5650005

In July of 2019, I sent out this piece from The Times of Israel:

Netanyahu meets with head of Ukrainian party that includes neo-Nazis

Oleh Lyashko of the Ukrainian Radical Party visits Jerusalem as part of a parliamentary delegation led by Jewish lawmaker Georgii Logvynskyi

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-meets-with-head-of-ukrainian-party-that-includes-neo-nazis/

And in January of 2020, I belatedly sent out this further piece on Israel’s continuing to arm the neo-Nazi forces:

Rights Groups Demand Israel Stop Arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine

Human rights activists petition the court to cease Israeli arms exports to Ukraine since some of these weapons reach neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine’s security forces

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-1.6248727

And as Israel, though quick to scream about the “anti-semitism” of Jeremy Corbyn, Jill Stein and Julian Assange, has had no problem arming neo-Nazi murderers on the hunt in East Ukraine, so did it gladly arm the no-less-Nazi-friendly government of Croatia in the summer of 2018, as Michael Averko reported in another piece that I sent out:

Back in February, we warned about the prospect of Israel selling F-16s to Croatia, a state in which WWII revisionism and Holocaust denial are running rampant, and memories of the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia are routinely glorified. In the meantime, that has become a done deal. But there is more. Not only will Israel sell half a billion dollars worth of fighter jets to Croatia, but on August 5, three Israeli F-16s, crewed by Israeli pilots, took part in a parade to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the “Operation Storm,” in which more than 2,300 Serbs were killed, including more than 1,200 civilians, among which more than 500 women and 12 children, and which forced the exodus of a quarter million Serbs from their ancestral homes in this former Yugoslav republic, reducing their numbers from the pre-war 600,000 to fewer than 190,000 today.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/08/09/israel-stamps-approval-on-europe-largest-post-wwii-ethnic-cleansing.html

Thus, in sum, it’s rather hard to see how Israel could now be “stunned by [the] Ukrainian neo-Nazis,” having, all along, not just refused to censure them, but actively abetted their atrocities. But let’s defer that question, until such time as we may know a little more about that government’s involvement with Ukraine, and their Ukraine-related dealings with our Nazi-friendly government (which, for 13 years, refused to sign the UN resolution “condemning the glorification of Nazism”). Instead of wondering at the mystery of Israel’s amnesiac astonishment at Ukraine’s ultra-rightist tilt, let’s turn to what Israel’s collusion with those neo-Nazis tells us.

What that collusion tells us about Israel—or, rather, Zionism—is, to say the least, uncomfortable, as Meyssan indicates toward the conclusion of his article. He reports that, early in the conflict, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, assured Putin that Ukraine was not in thrall to neo-Nazis: How could it be, when he himself is Jewish? And, on the sixth day of the invasion, Zelensky claimed that Russia had bombed Babi Yar, memorial to over 33,000 Ukrainian Jews slaughtered by the Nazis (eagerly assisted by Ukrainian police)—a charge that moved the Yad Vashem Memorial, Israel’s chief Holocaust remembrancer, to put out an angry statement. “It seemed outrageous to the Israelis,” Meyssan writes, “that Russia would compare the Ukrainian far right with the Nazis of the Shoah and even more so that it would bomb a place of memory.”

But when Israeli journalists went to Babi Yar to check the story out, they found that it was false; and then Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Kremlin, invited Yad Vashem “to send a delegation to Ukraine to see for themselves, under the protection of the Russian army, what President Putin was talking about.”

A great silence followed. What if the Kremlin, like the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was telling the truth? What if the Straussian Jews in the United States, the Ukrainian Jewish leader Ihor Kolomoysky and his employee the Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky were working with real Nazis?

Looking for the answer to that troubling question, Israel’s prime minister Naftali Bennett went to Moscow to see Putin, met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Tel Aviv, and called Zelensky, as well as several heads of member NATO states. What he learned we, so far, do not know—his silence due, perhaps, to the explosive implications of the awful truth:

It would be desirable for Naftali Bennett to make public what he has verified, but it is unlikely. He would have to open a forgotten file, that of the relations between certain Zionists and the Nazis. Why, then, did David Ben Gurion insist that Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of revisionist Zionism, was a fascist and possibly a Nazi? Who were the Jews who, before Adolf Hitler came to power, warmly welcomed an official delegation of the Nazi party, the NSDAP, to Palestine while it was practicing pogroms in Germany? Who negotiated the 1933 transfer agreement (the so-called "Haavara Agreement") and maintained an office in Berlin until 1939? How did half-Jew Vollrath von Maltzan become the purveyor of Zyklon B gas to the death camps? So many questions that historians usually leave unanswered. And today, is it true, as many witnesses claim, that Professor Leo Strauss taught his Jewish students that they had to build their own dictatorship, using the same methods as the Nazis, to protect themselves from a new Shoah?

Good questions. Here’s my take on that “forgotten file,” which I sent out on August 21, 2019; and I am posting it today, in part because I’ve had it up to here both with the Zionists attacking bravely anti-Nazi dissidents, working hard to end the current Holocaust—heroes like Bobby Kennedy, Jr., and the truckers up in Canada—as Nazis and/or Holocaust deniers; and, no less, with those Judaeophobes, mostly (but not only) on “the left,” who’ve been trying, like the Nazis, to identify “the Jews” as the sole entity responsible for every major evil that’s befallen us, from JFK’s murder, to 9/11, to the COVID crisis, and whatever else has brought on (as the Nazis put it) “our misfortune.” Though seemingly opposed, those two poisonous “communities”—two collective bearers of false witness—need each other, keep each other going, and so maintain themselves at our expense, by serving to divide us, when what we all need more than anything, at this apocalyptic moment, is to be completely unified against the Evil hard at work exterminating most of us (including the Israeli people), while planning to enslave the rest, completely and forever.

Thus do I declare a plague on both their houses (or, to put it more precisely, their one house):

Israel needs anti-semites—or "anti-semites"—to get Jews everywhere, and especially the USA, to rally round its flag (a strategy that's failing); and (real) anti-semites need the Jewish State, to cast their Jew-hatred as anti-Zionism (a strategy that's working all too well).

In any case, it's notable indeed, as Mairav Zonszein tweets, that Israel lets in Gavin McInnes, despite that goon's virulent, outspoken anti-semitism. (Check out his video, "10 things I hate about Jews," at https://forward.com/fast-forward/366077/watch-vice-co-founder-makes-10-things-i-hate-about-jews-video/.)

And it's also notable that Israel, despite its endless bellowing against the "anti-semitism" of BDS et al., supported the US-installed junta in Ukraine—a regime full of outright neo-Nazis—and even armed its SS-bedazzled forces fighting in the East:

http://markcrispinmiller.com/2018/08/israel-is-arming-ukraines-neo-nazi-fighters/

Such Nazi-friendliness should come as no surprise, since Zionism's fiercest champions have always been racial supremacists, just like the Nazis—with whom they actually saw eye to eye, back in the Thirties (as Lenni Brenner makes quite clear in his two must-read books, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators and 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis.) 

Now that We the People, all around the world, are fighting to end World War II again, with all of us now, roughly, in the same position as the European Jews in 1942, we must condemn all Nazis, and all Nazi sympathizers—even those who happen to be Jewish—so that the evil dream that drives them still will finally be impossible, and, ultimately, inconceivable.

Israel stunned by Ukrainian neo-Nazis

by Thierry Meyssan

The state-organized presence of neo-Nazis within the Ukrainian army is not anecdotal, even if it is not possible to quantify it in a certain way. On the other hand, it is easy to count their victims. In general indifference, they have killed 14,000 Ukrainians in eight years. This situation is one of the causes of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Israel is confronted for the first time with what it could never have imagined: the support of its US protector to its historical enemy, Nazism.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article215891.html