Mar 10, 2022

Letter to the Editor

this is an interesting letter to the editor and an interesting perspective worth pointing out, especially with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy comlpaining a lot about Israel not supporting Ukraine enough publicly...


My assumption is that this is fairly accurate but if anyone feels like checking and discovering that it is not, I would be happy to hear that...




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3 comments:

  1. LES AYMMarch 10, 2022 8:20 PM

    Opinion Page by Our "good friend" Peter Beinart.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/10/america-ukraine-russia-international-law

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  2. Meir SmullenMarch 10, 2022 8:44 PM

    There is no reason for Israel to support Ukraine because the president is Jewish. If Ukraine is being invaded by a tyrant like Putin, then our moral Jewish values should put us with the Ukrainians. However if doing so will make things difficult for Israel with Russia regarding Iran and Syria, then it is legitimate for Israel to look after its own interests first. By the way, the Ukrainians were never great philo semites. On the contrary, some welcomed the Nazis, and some were worse than Nazis. Many of the pogroms took place in Ukraine by ancestors of today's citizens. To be honest, I say a plague on both of them. But as usual, goyim kill goyim and they blame the Jews.

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  3. Tal BenscharMarch 10, 2022 9:59 PM

    I already posted this elsewhere on the Internet.

    Given that both Russia and the Ukraine had a long history of anti-semitism, it is hard to use this as a basis to determine current attitudes about the conflict.

    Under current circumstances, if Russia prevails, that would be a much greater threat to the world, including Jews, than if Ukraine did. Russia clearly has ambitions outside the Ukraine, including in the Middle East. It is working closely with Iran, who, let us not forget, has vowed to wipe Israel off the map.

    Ukraine, on the other hand, is too weak to do much outside its own borders. And within its borders, at least lately, Jews seem to be doing as well as they could in such a country. It’s president is a Jew, albeit an intermarried one, but to the anti-semites that means little.

    So Jews should hope Ukraine prevails, not for any love of Ukraine, but because of the consequences if Putin does.

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