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that the Khazar settlement of Sambat on the Dnieper refers to
the later Kiev.
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The Rider
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And it came to pass that on the eighth day of his journey,
a tired, gray pilgrim on horseback approached the home he had
left in search of adventure and knowledge when a young man. The
Rider had unceremoniously travelled for what seemed an overly
long lifetime, and only now had any inkling that, as a child, he
was ridiculously and overly susceptible to the provocative,
cackling, shrill, bugle wails of the disingenuous, painted
sirens. The lures had posed on the steep mountainside outside of
town, right on the slope where he was now perched, as the
cacophonous sentries, positioned at the desired land’s gates
made a mockery of the fixed, written words of the book he had
favored in youth. The Rider pulled back the reins and dismounted
his black, white, and gray spotted companion and together they
took in the view.
His eyes panned over a setting which seemed to be other
than what his half century old memory recalled. Below were the
brown and the flimsy, which had callously encroached on the
green and the sturdy which were what was in his mind. On the
ground near him were the charred stumps and the haphazard,
blackened, fallen logs. The visible insects had devoured the
majority of the softer brown wood, but seemed to have no
interest in the parts which had been scorched. These remnants,
which were slowly being absorbed by the earth on which they now
rested, sat like an un-excavated burial ground.
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His aged and now diminished ears heard nothing, but the
sporadic echoing whistle of the earth upsetting wind; making an
abundance of short lived dust devils. It howled in gusts in
defiance of soothing convention, as it unsuccessfully tried to
once again regain the stature deceiving, un-kept promise of its
former flamboyant prominence. Yet, he also knew that the
insistent wind had its undeniable mellowing place in his realm
of otherwise stagnant and mounting heat. It immediately made a
liar of him when it blew dust into Spotty’s eyes. Without the
benefit of hands, she had no way to brush away the rude, petty
grains which accumulated to hamper her vision. The shaking of
her head alleviated much of the initial intrusions, but was
ineffective when the moisture induced widening muddy deposits at
the corners. The grounded Rider used his fingers to clear her
eyes. As always, she first balked, afraid of injury to the
vital, sensitive area. The Rider found the repetition of the old
story somewhat silly; but never said so. This was the millionth
time he put his hands under her chin and said; “Hey girl; you
should know by now that I’d never hurt you.” Like always, Spotty
sighed and relaxed while the Rider cleared her eyes.
The time-consuming, eight day trip, no doubt clearly
foreseeable by the enlightened, had taken him only an un-
enlightened and decaying half century. But now, he thought that
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he was finally home. The thoughts of what might have been if he
was brighter and more fortunate were ones he had to forget. The
past was gone and now irrelevant. It was simple as that as he
had managed to think in his busy rational moments. He had long
prior learned how to hold back the publicly embarrassing tears,
saving them for his ample idle solitude. The Rider rubbed away
his own accumulating corner deposits.
He came to a complete halt on the bounteously recalled, but
presently treeless hill. He overlooked the town. He could only
now try to fool himself by doubting that it was the place he did
once seek to leave. Things had changed. That person was not him;
it had to be someone else caught in the inevitably, drowning
whirlpool. The harsh realities of what he truly believed, but
didn’t want to remember, only served as a testimony to his long
term and wasting, weak culpability. The thought had to go away,
if he had any chance of keeping on, though he knew that his
keeping on had no relevance to anyone but to him, Spotty, and
possibly his present boss. He recognized this depressed mindset
was just another manifestation of self-indulgence; popular with
the privileged and their affected mimics, while in reality he
knew that it was just another simple display of humanity’s will
to go on; all too often used for short term personal gain. Still
in its grips despite accurate recognition of the enemy, he
temporarily considered willing himself to death, but could not
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sustain the pain-ending thought. The illogical, sorrow
generating, yet irrepressible hope of a deep-rooted, childish
dream would not let him succumb to the comfortable numbness.
He attempted to get out of his head and into what was
around him today; in what apparently passes for someone’s
version of “reality,” their own. In that process the Rider found
it easier and truer to substitute his own. He had come to know
that his attitude had much in common with what everyone else
dealt with daily; and here he was, reflecting on it like another
poor imitation of Narcissus. Yet, if he were to insist on only
viewing his own perceptions, it would only solidify his
isolation. He took a long drink from his brown, fringed, leather
canteen; in that process apprehensively noticing that the only
remaining water contained in it rested at the bottom. His eyes
went to Spotty. At first she was apprehensively looking at him.
She then whinnied; low, sad and shyly; shook her head from side
to side, though that movement was no longer personally
necessary. She looked the other way; not in any sense of
defiance; not in any sense of boredom; not in any sense of
disgust; not in any sense of ill will; but maybe in a sense of a
feeling of inadequacy coupled with the sense of a feeling of;
“Get off it. It leads nowhere!” The Rider thought that he might
understand and caressed her.
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The magnificence of his anciently and possibly mistakenly
recalled fertile valley; its compelling view, punitively,
pitilessly and perhaps condescendingly, was obvious to him and
was right in the face of Spotty and he. His exhausted and
partially open eyes looked, though the part of him which
insisted on survival recommended that they be closed. He
resisted survival compulsions and saw that the steep hillside
itself, not only evidenced a consuming inferno; the date
anyone’s guess; only displayed sawn tree stumps which because of
the regularity of the cuts, appear to have been taken down prior
to the fire. Now they were apparently resolute in their
commemorated mortality; a museum of undesired, immobile
tranquility, no longer having any hope of shifting their many
lost branches in the fickle breeze. Their un-moving, but making-
the-best-of-things remains overlooked the wrinkled, parched,
presently desert town, as reluctantly, did the Rider. He thought
that he remembered bucolic, green, springtime dalliances,
happily extending their bold, newly acquired progressions into a
cloudless, blue sky, which seemed well within reach. Though
there was no evidence of his memory, he was stubbornly certain
that he was right. For a privileged, melancholically, happy and
hopeless moment, his possibly objective faulty, primal
recollection of what he dreamed of in his youth; as to the
beauty which once was on, above, and below the hill, on which he
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now stood, pounded his brain like exhilaration coupled with an
unspoken admonishment. The remnants of the sweet dream were
clearly in front of his face. The reality was much as his almost
forgotten, foolish, and romantic, once upon a time fantasy. The
unattained dream which he now considered to be the innocent
delusion of a youthful and erroneously thought to be a never-to-
come-again oasis of the sincerely joyful shared the libidinous
embodiment of a loving soul which had long prior succumbed to
the infectious, prevalent passion, or never really was, outside
of his thoughts. It was the substance of fantasy to be enjoyed
only when one was alone and ready for sleep. At some
compromising point, his prior resistance to the predominant and
ever-flowing waves wore out. The comfort of the old innocent
songs were overwhelmed by a silent cacophony of guilty, tainted,
universally, though not personally produced ugly realities,
which were the result of a magnanimous smiling viewpoint which
seemed to be clearly right in front of his faulty brain and
eyes. While the heart of the saddened one was capable of an
extremely limited foray into the life of a hermit monk, his
nether regions seemed to have a mind of their own and without
any semblance of sociably acceptable constraints, looked
elsewhere. Was there any choice? It was a storm of relentless,
blinding dust which gratuitously dropped its dominant,
physically “real,” and un-welcomely imposed obscurations on the
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desperate, unhappy groupings he sought to elude. Unlike many
years prior, he now knew that he rightly belonged with them. He
knew and hated that stupidly stubborn aspect of himself, in
which he appeared as reticent or shy, but was a truly unwilling
and unenthusiastic prognosticator and procrastinator, in fear of
the horror he had seen inflicted on the openly vulnerable. There
was no way to live with open eyes and simultaneously avoid it.
For her and only her, he had frantically prayed to un-listening
ears for a cessation of the cruel wind; each entreaty performed
with less zeal than the prior failure, until it was gone. He
knew that he and she were just more of the condemned, didn’t
understand why it had to be this way, and yet still desired to
attempt a personally judicial, righteous journey home for the
others. Maybe his lost, seemingly simple, misremembered dream
could be their way, if not his. Besides, he had nothing to gain
by denying the others who had done him no harm.
Below him in the valley, though he found the implied idea
of his lofty placement personally repugnant, yet egoistically
impossible to ignore, he saw the scraps of his failed dream. The
barren, desolate appearance of the tangibly inescapable, brutal
physical environs of his originally desired home below caused
him to chastise himself for long ago having taken a series of
wrong turns, simultaneously almost forgiving himself when he
realized that the arduous excursion was not what he sought. It
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was merely what seemed to be there; bearing the testimony of all
that went before him and all that he had heard about then. For
‘Occam’s Razor’ aficionados, the simplest and easiest criticism
was that it was unforgivably common. The Rider was harder on
himself. Despite all the good justifications, he couldn’t
forgive himself for taking a route which, had he taken the
trouble to mindfully scrutinize, was obviously a route to hell.
Can a teenager be expected to understand the experienced,
unobstructed, regretful viewpoint gained in old age? Perhaps
that was so for a few geniuses imprisoned in the company of many
timid followers of rules. It seemed a travesty, in any sense of
his concept of justice, for his current mindset to be only
possible after a youth of regretted, self-indulgence, away from
those he loved. There must be another way; a path hidden.
........ He thought that he would not be convicted by a jury of
his peers as he had never seen it, and had no practical reason
to think that it existed anywhere outside of the pretenses of
the holier-than-thou-outdo-doo-dah-daddy positions already
claimed by the fame-seeking, mental defectives. Yet, every
unexplainable thing in him told him that he should have known
and that he was guilty and did not have to wait for the
legalities of a sentencing hearing. The punishment was inflicted
before charges were filed.
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He again wondered if he were yet another person merely
consigned to the wrong time and place. He had been so mistakenly
sure of the decency of so many other locations that he found the
question unanswerable. He had to try to forget the failure of
all that was part of the past and hope and believe that he was
about to enter something new; as well as something old. A
successful life seemed to demand the contradiction. Without the
belief in that one in a million, “miraculous,” and naïve long
shot, he may as well have stayed up on the hill with the
butchered, burned and unirrigated tree stumps. If the denizens
of the valley city were averse to him, so be it. He could know
that only after having tried to befriend them.
He again mounted Spotty and rode his companion of thirty
years. The black, white and gray spotted mare now struggled with
every step she took on the sloped and treacherous terrain. He
held the reins slackly and made no effort to compel her to move
with anything other than the speed and course with which she was
most secure. As he experienced the careful slow steps she took,
he again gazed into their valley destination. It didn’t look as
if it could have been the likely recipient of the idealized,
weathered memories he had of a youth spent in wordless
modification of the place, which he had thought was purposely,
stupidly and onerously set on thwarting every feeble attempt he
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made to find any paltry sense of freedom. Now, he was saddened,
as it merely appeared dry, forlorn and abandoned.
Despite his undesired, underwhelming feeling that he was
likely to be returning to a place which had obviously seen
better times, his corrected and egalitarian emotions made him
want to enter the town of his birth; strongly and inescapably.
He was reticent to appear as someone pompous, patronizing or
condescending to the town he loved; but left. He also knew that
this perception would inescapably be that of some; he could only
hope not many. This was nothing more than a sad joke to him. He
had lost the protracted match, time was running out and he
wished that he had never left. Yet he knew all too well the
authority and prominence of appearances. Despite the length of
his trip, his blue denim shirt, pants and open jacket were only
lightly soiled and he still had the company and friendship of
faithful Spotty. She meandered assuredly through the obstacles,
her eyes necessarily fixed in concentration on the confounding
stumps and deteriorating logs.
The Rider reluctantly peered toward the river to his left;
or what remained of it. The playground of his swimming childhood
had become a congregation of clustered dry islands interspersed
by small trickles insufficient to provide aquatic cover for a
shellfish. For a brief moment he wondered if this was the place
he had left. His doubt was extinguished by his sighting of the
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irrigation ditches, now much too high above the river to be the
receptacle of anything other than the hot, dry air.
He momentarily considered going back to the farce with
which he was fluent after a lifetime of learning the patois.
....... He couldn’t bring himself to and he realistically
thought it best to continue on as he hadn’t the time to
backtrack. Going back was an option open only to the young.
He rode a few more steps, until a bearded man on foot, with
glasses in need of recurrent manipulation turned the switchback
corner. He had to stop Spotty as the bespectacled man was too
busy carrying on a heated conversation with a person whom only
he saw to pay any attention to others who might be on the hill.
When they got close he could see that the bearded man was young;
no more than thirty years of age. The Stranger came to an
abrupt, jerking stop and used his quivering fingers to
reposition his glasses higher on his nose, poking an eye in the
process. Embarrassed, he said; “Why don’t you watch where you’re
going!”
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m standing still. Can’t you
see?”
“.............. Well, good that you think you are.” The
Stranger inserted two fingers under his glasses, and rubbed a
blinking eye. He mumbled; “I do see some movement. Where are you
going?”
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The Rider extended his right hand, palm up, toward the
town, and said; “To the place of my birth. Is it still home to
anyone?”
The bearded one again meddled with his glasses, leaving
them more misaligned than they had been prior to his alteration.
He tugged at his beard and said; “Why must you ask difficult
questions?”
“.............. Perhaps, I can rephrase it. Does anyone
live there?”
“I don’t know. No difference to me.”
“Have you been down there?”
The Stranger cackled when he replied; “Questions.
Questions. Questions. But, this one is finally an indication of
lost presumptions. Thank you. No, I have not.” He found this
uninformed response singularly amusing and added; “I have been
well advised to avoid this demise, euphemistically known as
Cambio de la Vida. Jesus has said; ‘Let the dead stay with the
dead.’”
Spotty snorted and looked back toward her mount as if to
say; “Both of you have got to be kidding.” The Rider said; “No
matter what it is now called by the inexperienced young, I will
always remember its sweet wonders. When I was born there it was
known throughout the country as Propicio; a place of abundance.
It matters none to me if it has mockingly become known as Cambio
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de la Vida, as I will always belong there. It is merely a
circling back to an infancy; oblivious to labels.” Thinking that
he had said something discourse ending, if not particularly
dazzling, he smirked as he confidently retrieved a hand rolled
cigarette from his shirt pocket and struck a match, lighting it.
The pedestrian Stranger with the vision challenge jumped
back and his glazed eyes widened in horror. He said; “This place
is so dry, an ember could trigger a raging wildfire. Didn’t you
see the condition of the river?”
He inhaled deeply and said; “Yeah? ....... Hard to miss. My
compliments on your fantastic grasp of the obvious. ....... Now,
who’s asking the stupid questions?”
The bearded one again frantically tried to straighten his
glasses, and quickly circumvented Spotty, in a quick stepping
attempt to get away from the flickering flame. He had moved ten
feet when he stopped and called back, seeking the last word;
“You’re crazy! You’re absolutely crazy! ......... What do you
think is on the other side of the ridge?”
The Rider calmly shrugged and said; “I don’t remember. I
really don’t. ........ Maybe nothin’ worth rememberin’. Maybe
Paradise. ........ What day is today? I can’t remember that
either.”
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The Stranger wasn’t asked, but chose to blurt out; “I don’t
know. I really don’t. ....... Whatever its un-name, it’s a day
to move on.”
“Finally, we agree on somethin’”
“There’s nuthin’ down there.”
“Maybe, maybe not.”
“Look, all you can see is fallen down shacks.”
“Can’t see over the ridge from here.”
“Gotta be the same. I’ve been in these parts all my life
and I never seen a damn thing. ‘Sides, there’s no water down
there. If you make it to the ridge you’ll never make it back.”
“I don’t know. Don’t matter. My boss wants me to deliver a
book to some lady.”
The Stranger couldn’t control his laughter. He said; “Hey,
jerk. (Giggle.) You can (Snort.) just throw the book away
(Mucous wiped on sleeve.) and say that you delivered it.”
“I ain’t like that. That’s why he pays me good.”
“Wages! Wages! S***! Can get that anywhere without dying of
thirst. Man!! Use your f****** head.”
“ .................................... “
“What?”
“I was usin’ my f****** head.”
Snort. “Try usin’ it the shrewd way. How’s he gonna know?
This one time won’t hurt.”
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“I don’t know how he’s gonna know. He’s pretty damn smart
though.”
“Smart compared to you I guess.”
“He’s got the biggest cattle and horse operation back east.
What you got?”
“ ................. Probably inherited it.”
“Made it all himself. That’s what everyone says.”
“Dangerous down there.”
“Got a gun for the rattlers.”
The Rider retrieved a tiny, leather bound, un-titled book
from his saddlebag and read aloud. “Just as it is the task of
the enlightened beings of numbers to make generous, good use of
their numbers to explain things in a two-fold, in sync manner,
which the beings of substance can understand; it is also the
task of the enlightened beings of substance to make generous,
good use of their substance to explain things in a two-fold, in
sync manner which the beings of numbers can understand; both
parties at once being clearly overt and clearly mysterious. It
is at this point that the third riders make themselves known to
all. Differing ability levels are recognized and respected. An
honest effort is all that is required. But, woe be to those who
hold back or deceive. They not only hurt the other, but
themselves. Their inaction or falsity condemns all to a tedious,
boring lifetime of ‘preaching banalities to the choir,’ at best.
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It is at this point that the suicide phantom of Styx makes its
presence known and the haunting, black specter has achieved what
it and you think to be immortality. But, it is Death.”
The Rider dismounted in order to put the book back in his
saddlebag.
Spotty became uncomfortable standing unevenly on the slope.
She carefully worked her way down to the field and commenced
running at full tilt.
The Stranger said; “See Spot run.”
“What’s a scribe doin’ in the wasteland?”
“Lookin’ for somethin’ worth stealin’. What else?” .......
“What the hell was all that crap supposed to mean?”
The now pedestrian Rider laughingly replied; “You’re the
smart one. You tell me. F*** do I know? It’s just my job to
deliver this little book. Figured I’d take a look at it at
night. ........ I just gotta keep movin’. Got a great, great
horse helpin’ me. ....... See ya, ...... maybe.”
The Stranger walked west, away from the river, continuing
to fidget with his glasses. When he got out of normal hearing
range, Spotty started back up the hill to the Rider. She moved
more quickly this time, as she had learned the terrain.
The Rider dwelled a bit, smiled, puffed and straddled
Spotty, who complied and demonstrated her continuance to show
their mutual disdain for paths. They went straight down the
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hill, more and more certain that they were on their way home. He
uttered; ‘Head for Siempre Carretera.’
He pulled the reins gently and Spotty slowly loped over the
dry shrubs, their disturbed cotton now loose and filling the air
near ground level with snow flurries
The Rider was fearful that he was too late, but he and
Spotty were aiming to go over that ridge.
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May 25, 2022. The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you
know. No one is paying any attention, but this has been going on
heavy duty for six years already, and it would seem that no one
outside the region affected has heard of it. It’s kind of big
stuff, and has the potential to spread. Would you like to be
living in the following building or have the following brouhaha
with your riding mower? Of course not. But, this is what
Ukranians have been putting up with for an entire decade, and
you can bet your ass that they’re pissed. You would be too. And
on top of all this crap, they have the complications supplied by
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to do. If it wasn’t for the plentiful Horilka, there would
undoubtedly be constant hand to hand combat.
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A Ukrainian fighter stands in a building damaged by shelling in Avdiivka, Ukraine.
A Ukrainian fighter seems strangely calm as a nearby exposion destroys a tank in Avdiivka,
Ukraine.
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The fighting in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region is entering its
seventh year. More than 15,000 people have been killed in this
persistent conflict, including 3,800 civilians. Nearly two
million people have been internally displaced or put at risk if
they remain in their homes.
Today, the Donbas war is among the worst humanitarian crises in
the world, with frequent attacks occurring from both sides
across the oblasts or provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. Before
the war, this compact, heavily urbanized and industrialized
region held nearly 15 percent of Ukraine’s 6.6 million
population and generated 20 percent of its gross domestic
Now it’s a war zone. And our research has documented that, as
its hospitals and medical facilities are destroyed; perhaps even
targeted; its citizens are being deprived of basic health care
services, echoing Syria’s similar if larger crisis.
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So what happened in Ukraine? How did it happen? In 2013, Ukraine
was divided between those who wanted to affiliate with Russia
and those who leaned toward Europe and NATO. In Kiev, in what
was called the Maidan Revolution, the pro-Europe faction
overthrew the kleptocratic and Russian-leaning Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovych.
When does Russian propaganda work? And when does it backfire?
Here’s what we found. Reactions in the Donbas, a region bordering Russia and composed of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians,
varied. Separatist forces, abetted by Russia, began fighting the
Ukrainian military, soon fortified by backup from Russian army
units. That fighting has damaged the Donbas’s basic
infrastructure, particularly hospitals and clinics, making it
hard for the government to deliver core services such as health
care.
Combatants often attack hospitals. In Syria, human rights organizations and the UN Security Council have denounced these
attacks as violations of international law. Fewer observers have noticed the attacks on Ukraine’s hospitals, even though the
World Health Organization documented 33 such attacks from 2014
through 2016.
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As part of a larger study, we compiled an inventory of the 247
registered hospitals and clinics in the Donbas. We then examined
UN reports, investigations by nongovernmental organizations,
central news reports in Ukraine and Russia, and Donetsk and
Luhansk newspapers for evidence of healthcare infrastructure
damage from 2014 through 2017. We geo-located all specific
reports of damage, eliminating duplicates.
We found that one-third of all Donbas medical facilities had
been damaged. Our resulting geospatial database reveals patterns
of “bricks and mortar” damage to the healthcare system, as you
can see below.
Adjusting for multiple hits, we found that 82 medical
facilities; one-third of all those in the Donbas, had reported
damage. That’s far more than those reported by the World Health
Organization. However, the bricks and mortar damage doesn’t show
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casualties among medical personnel or the loss of vehicles. Nor
does it show how local civilians suffered severe damage to their
housing and access to heat, electricity and clean water. Many of
the residents who’ve stayed must now risk a great deal to reach
even basic health care.
Could U.N. peacekeepers help end the war in Ukraine? Is this a surprise? Are healthcare facilities deliberately attacked? There
are no safe places in a major war. The Donbas conflict is often
described as “hybrid warfare,” something akin to Russia’s
seizure of Crimea with “little green men.” This is a serious
mischaracterization.
Mapping our data illustrates that attacks on healthcare
facilities are concentrated in the city of Donetsk and its
environs; along the cease-fire line, where the front stabilized
after February 2015; and around the city of Sloviansk, which was
occupied by separatist forces but later retaken by Ukrainian
troops. Along the coast of the Sea of Azov, advances by Russian
troops and separatists resulted in a cluster of attacks near
Mariupol. Northern Luhansk Oblast and western Donetsk Oblast saw
little heavy fighting, and therefore little damage.
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Were hospitals targeted? Many healthcare facilities in the
Donbas were destroyed. Was this deliberate — or was it
collateral damage? We looked at what types of weapons were used,
for some clues.
In the Syrian civil war, heavy aerial bombardment destroyed a vast amount of infrastructure. By contrast, the Donbas fighting
has used conventional artillery, heavy mortars and rockets such
as the notorious Grad (“Hail”) system. Such indirect fire
weapons are not accurate enough to target specific buildings.
Those using them often can’t see the target. So to destroy a
particular target building, such weapons would succeed only when
used in sufficient numbers, and would leave behind a great deal
of collateral damage. Some medical locations might have been
attacked by shorter-range, direct fire weapons such as tanks,
anti-tank missiles, or rocket-propelled grenades. Examining both
witness accounts and the blast patterns in photos of derelict
healthcare facilities, we find that the damage appears to be
what we would expect from artillery rounds or rockets. It looks
more like hospitals and clinics have been collateral damage than
targets.
When military targets are attacked and are fighting back, it’s
hard to conclude which side damaged the surrounding civilian
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infrastructure. Reliable reports document that both sides have quartered troops in or fired from hospitals, blurring the line
between combatant and noncombatant. In other conflicts, forensic
examination of fragments or unexploded ordnance helps identify
the type of munitions used to attack hospitals; making it easier
to conclude which side attacked which target. But in the Donbas
war, both sides mostly use the same weaponry, making it
difficult to deduce which side attacked the healthcare
facilities.
Were attacks on healthcare facilities deliberate? Our
preliminary examination suggests that they haven’t been
targeted. They appear to have suffered collateral damage, and
have been hit by both sides. To draw conclusions about
responsibility, one would need to employ the sophisticated open-source data and methods used to analyze the Syrian war damage.
No matter who is responsible, the fighting has damaged not just
healthcare services, but other civilian infrastructure such as
housing, schools and election facilities, while killing,
terrifying and displacing civilians. If Ukraine can’t deliver
essential services, the war has undermined the legitimacy of the
state and made it harder to reach a reconciliation if and when
the conflict ends.
Leibowitz Concludes
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Trying to refer back to the headline of this article, the
Ukrainian governing body is one which no one heeds. Yet, it
issued a proclamation requiring a Ukranian Jewish organization
and their sponsoring synagogue to change their name, eliminating
the “Russian” in it’s title, to more clearly indicate their
rebel alliance. The Jews held protests two weeks ago, but odds
are that they too are still riled.
“True Torah Jews”
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“Good evening, faithful listeners. I’m Rabbi Yosef Krasilovsky
of the Benet Rothstein Chabad Jewish Center, here in Shelton,
Connecticut. You may have already known that you’re listening to
WMDI-LP New York Jewish Radio at 107.9 FM; also available on
line at NYJewishRadio.com. I’m a member of an umbrella group
called ‘The True Torah Jews,’ which is actually comprised of a
few groups, the largest of which is the Neturei Karta. ......
I’m always proud of myself when I get all that shtopn out
correctly. The rest of the show is easy in comparison.
We have only two issues here; the current state of Israel and
that much misunderstood word; Zionism. But, shver zikh issues
they are, as they’ve been around for one hundred years. While
today the majority of observing Jews identify with the state of
Israel, there is both a growing and visible minority of anti-
and non-Zionist Jews, with a rich history of anti-Zionism within
Judaism. Political movements like ‘The Jewish Labour Bund’ and
thinkers such as Abraham Serfaty, Emma Goldman and Leon Trotsky
are often ignored or dismissed as ‘self-hating traitors.’ In the
US today groups like ‘Jews for Justice for Palestinians, ’
‘Jewdas, ’ ‘Young Jewish Left’ and the ‘International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network’ are active voices against the occupation.
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Jews who criticize or oppose Zionism are usually Orthodox and maintain that Israel can only be regained miraculously. They
view the present state as a blasphemous human attempt to usurp
God's role, and many actively work to dismantle the secular
state of Israel. However, unlike many gentile anti-Zionists, Jewish anti-Zionists usually firmly believe in the Jewish right
to the land of Israel, but only at the future time of
redemption. The best known group of the Jewish religious anti-
Zionists are the aforementioned Neturei Karta.
Neturei Karta members being arrested at draft protest in Jerusalem 1-18-17; property of the
author.
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Jews burning the Israeli flag in Brooklyn 3-12-17; property of the author.
Jews at pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, DC 12-17-17; property of the author.
Two common religious grounds are typically given for anti-
Zionism. One is that today's Zionism is a secular Zionism, packed with non-Jewish influences, and lacking key features like
Mashiach and the rebuilt Temple. Adherents to this position are
more on the nonZionist, rather than anti-Zionist side. The other
reason is that the Talmud, the central text and the primary
source of Jewish religious law (Halakah) and Jewish theology, as
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part of a discussion of certain Torah verses mentioning oaths, states that when the Israelites went into the second exile, there were three vows between Heaven and Earth;
1) Israel would not ‘go up like a wall’ (conquer Eretz Yisrael
by massive force.)
2) God made the Israelites swear that they would not rebel
against the nations of the world, and would obey the host
governments in the exile.
3) God made the non-Jews swear not to oppress Israelites ‘too
much.’
Groups accepting these positions are more on the anti-Zionist
side. Non-Zionist Jews are pleased that Israel exists from a
practical standpoint as a haven for oppressed Jews and as a land
imbued with holiness wellsuited for Torah study. But they don't
generally assign religious significance to the formation of the
modern state, and often decry aspects of its secular culture.
Recently, the State of Israel enacted a law proclaiming itself
the ‘nation-state’ of all Jews on planet earth, regardless of
nationality. ‘True Torah Jews’ believe this declaration to be
wrong and unlawful. Since the Jewish people are a religious
entity; not a race or nationality; such a claim is completely
bogus.
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By irrevocably linking Jews everywhere with Israel and any
Israeli military action, like that in the Ukraine now, they too
must unfairly shoulder international reaction; becoming the
innocent and unwitting target of increased anti-Semitism
worldwide.
‘True Torah Jews’ are proud and loyal citizens of our own
nation-states, completely unaffiliated with the state of Israel.
We believe this law promotes Israeli ruling class interests
while being diametrically opposed to true Jewish interests, and
so we are compelled to voice our sincere and profound
opposition.
I’d like to make a few simple observations. It seems absurd that
these things have to be explained over and over. Just reverse
the concept to Catholics. No one misunderstands that there are
Catholics who are Italian, Catholics who are Polish, and
Catholics who are of virtually every ethnicity. And they all do
not want to go to Vatican City, nor do they all pay much
attention to the Pope. I have to think this ‘confusion’ about
the Jews is willful and continually perpetrated by those who
think that they have something to gain by it.
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It is truly amazing how difficult it is to get information about
what ‘True Torah Jews’ have to say. The first problem is that
you would have to know out precise name before you had a chance
of finding it. Mysteriously, googling Jews, Israel, or Zionism
will not bring up our name. And then, if you do somehow manage
to find it, our own website provides much, but not all of what
I’d have wished, as items regularly get deleted, and no one
knows by whom. I don’t suspect that this is accidental, as we
get deleted from other sites too; even Wikipedia. I guess it
upsets the norm to openly say that there are non-violent true
Jews, and then there are the violent fake Jews, the leadership,
often just called Khazars. They are hard line Zionists, who
continually use the peaceful Jews for their own gain. When we
live in a time of popular conspiracy theories, including
nonsensical allegations that the Clintons killed fourteen
people, it seems like a story which is worth much more attention
than it has ever gotten.
Even Wikipedia deleted our article on ‘True Torah Jews’ against
Zionism. I first learned about the manipulation of Wikipedia by
Israeli Cyber Warriors on the Veterans Today site, and so far
everything they have said has been right about Wikipedia, and
this further confirms it. These two organizations have no
connection or tie in, so this observation is from their personal
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experience. ‘Veterans Today’ also did independant research
confirming Israel’s hand in manipulating Wikipedia to favor
their view of Zionism. We have done numberous blogs on the real
Torah Jews and how they are being vilified for things they have
not done, and rather are used by the Zionist Khazars as cover
for their dirty deeds. Religious Jews are considered by Zionists
as pathetic, weak, and unable to do what it takes to make their
mark. In other words, they are too loving, forgiving, God loving
spirit beings. It’s unlikely many of you have ever met a real
religious Jew. I was lucky in school to have had an enlightened
debate partner, and that was how I knew something was wrong and
began this journey down the Khazar rabbithole. Sure enough, I
found out the Real Jews were a gentle people like their
Palestinian brothers and that the picture put out by the Khazars
was just another deception so they would not be held accountable
for their actions; but rather the real Jews would pay the price
as they did in WW II. They were blamed for the WW II boycott
against Germany, while it was the Zionists were the ones that
called for that boycott, not the real Jews.
Torah Judaism is an English term used by Orthodox Jewish groups to describe their Judaism as being based on an adherence to the
laws of the Torah's mitzvot, as expounded in Orthodox Halakha.
These laws include both the Biblical and rabbinic mitzvot.
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Torah Judaism is also an ideological concept used by many
Orthodox thinkers to describe their movement as the sole Jewish
denomination faithful to traditional Jewish values. Followers of
True Torah Judaism may also follow the Daat Torah, the
guidelines of rabbis or hakhamim based on the Talmud. In recent
times, these hakhamim may include the followers' rebbes; Hasidic rabbis, rosh yeshivas, deans of yeshivas, or a posek, often
identified as an expert in the Shulkhan Arukh. The phrase Torah Judaism implies a belief and practice of Judaism that is based
on the inclusion of the entire Tanakh and Talmud, as well as
later rabbinic authorities, as sources of conducting oneself in
life, and on the premise that the Torah emanates directly from
God, as revealed at Biblical Mount Sinai. The term ‘Torah Judaism’ is a conscious intent to label non-Orthodox Jewish
movements as being divorced from the Torah.
This is our mission. The relatively new concept of Zionism began only about one hundred years ago and since that time True Torah
Jewry has steadfastly opposed the Zionist ideology. This
struggle is rooted in two convictions;
1) Zionism, by advocating a political and military end to the
Jewish exile, denies the very essence of our Diaspora existence.
We are in exile by Divine Decree and may emerge from exile
solely via Divine Redemption. All human efforts to alter a
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metaphysical reality are doomed to end in failure and bloodshed.
History has clearly borne out this teaching.
2) Zionism has not only denied our fundamental belief in
Heavenly Redemption; it has also created a pseudo-Judaism which
views the essence of our identity to be a secular nationalism.
Accordingly, Zionism and the Israeli state have consistently
endeavored, via persuasion and coercion, to replace a Divine and
Torah centered understanding of our peoplehood with an armed
materialism.
‘True Torah Jews’ is dedicated to informing the world and in
particular the American public and politicians that not all Jews
support the ideology of the Zionist state called ‘Israel.’ In
fact, a great number of Orthodox Jews view the ideology of that
state as diametrically opposed to the teachings of traditional
Judaism. We are concerned that the widespread misconception that
all Jews support the Zionist state and its actions endangers
Jews worldwide. We are NOT politically motivated. We are
motivated by our concern for the peace and safety of all people
throughout the world including those living in the Zionist
state. We support and pray for peace for the people of the
Zionist state but have no interest in and do not support its
Zionist government.
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We seek to disassociate Jews and traditional Judaism from the
Zionist ideology by:
1) Providing historical and supporting documentation that
Zionism is totally contrary to the teachings of traditional
Judaism through the words of our Rabbis, Sages, and Holy
Scriptures which oppose the creation of this state called
Israel.
2) Providing historical documentation on the ideology and
creation of Zionism, the supporters of Zionism and the negative
impact of their actions on the Jewish people in the past hundred
years, including their involvement in the Holocaust and their
activities up to the present day.
3) Publicizing the efforts of traditional Jews to demonstrate
their opposition to Zionism; efforts which are ignored by the
mainstream media.
4) Convincing the news media, politicians and the public to
cease referring to the State of Israel as the ‘Jewish State’ but
to call it what it is; the ‘Zionist State,’ that being
controlled by the false Khazarian ‘Jews’ for their benefit
alone.
We also aim to reach out to our Jewish brethren who have never
studied the subject of Zionism from a Torah perspective, and
have only been taught the Zionist side of the story. It is our
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hope that all of our fellow Jews will soon open their eyes,
return to Torah and reject this ideology that replaces the Jew's
age-old hope for God's redemption with a false redemption and a
human initiated state. We are concerned that the widespread
misconception that all Jews support the Zionist state and its
actions endangers Jews worldwide.”
“Okay, we’re taking calls and have Ephraim on the line. Hi
Epraim, and what’s on your mind today.”
“Good evening, Rabbi Krasilovsky. Does not the Talmud say ‘come
and see what the people have to say.’ Sometimes in the spiritial
movement of the people there is great divine inspiration.”
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“Ephraim, I believe the correct translation is ‘go out and see
how the people act.’ The Gemora uses this when there are two
opinions about an halachic question, such as the correct
blessing on water at the end of sixth chapter of Berachos, and
we want to know which one to follow. There is another concept
that you may be referring to; that the Arizal and other
mekubalim find important reasons for Jewish customs that
apparently started for unrelated reasons. For example, Jews
today wear a small tallis under their garments and a large
tallis over the garments. Originally there was only one big
tallis which Jews wore all day. But then they stopped wearing
four cornered cloaks, and in order to fulfill the mitzvah of
tzitzis all day it became necessary to wear a special small four
cornered garment. However, the Arizal explains that the small
and large tallis each corresponds to certain kabbalistic
concepts and it is important to wear both. This implies that God
guided and inspired the Jewish people to begin customs that
actually have deep reasons behind them, although they didn't
understand it. There is another concept you may mean that we
must be ‘melamed zechus’ on Jews and try to find ways to permit
what they're already doing, such as the Bach permitting chodosh
in Yoreh Deah 293. However, none of these concepts applies to
Zionism. There is no dispute among authorities as to whether
it's forbidden and that we should look to the people for a
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ruling. It is not a Jewish custom started by religious Jews, but
a movement started by Jews who had broken away from the Torah.
And we don't need to be melamed zechus on something if the
people doing it were in any case wicked Jews who didn't keep any
of the other laws of the Torah. There were gedolim who
encouraged settlement and yishuv Eretz Yisroel, but no one
permitted Jews to fight for political control of the land.
You are right that Zionism may be part of God's plan, but that
does not make it right to do it at the whim of a false Jew. The
Brisker Rav once said that even if prophets and the works of the
Kabbalah predict that there will be a Jewish state before the
coming of Moshiach, it is still forbidden to help it happen. It
can be easily viewed as a prediction which came true. He pointed
to the famous words of the Rambam, taken out by the censors in
standard editions, that Christianity and Islam are part of God's
plan to pave the way for Moshiach by making the ideas of God and
the Torah known to the whole world. Does that mean, said the
Brisker Rav, that we should go help spread those religions?”
Epraim said; “Isn't the problem going up as a wall as opposed to
nagging the Queen of England? In today's day and age you could
argue if there was going up as a wall. From my understanding
there is no prohibition in taking governorship of the land when
its governor puts it ‘up-for-grabs’ in a democratic way. I do
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know it is prohibited to take the land by force but that wasn't
what happened. The Palestinians were not in control of the land.
The British were. We met the British conditions for controlling
the land and so did the Palestinians. So, how is the 1947 war
any different to bar Kochba's revolt except for the Samaritans
not having an army and being a success? Since the automobile and
the airplane transport is more of an individual/family style
rather than a people who appear as a wall on the horizon.
Obviously this will not cover the Yemenite exodus.”
Rabbi Krailovky said; “The UN can vote to recommend something,
but it is not a ruling body. Sometimes it does take steps to
enforce its decisions, but in the case of the 1947 partition
vote it did nothing. It was nothing more than a recommendation.
Later on, Israel itself flaunted the UN's recommendations many
times. Ben Gurion was known to say ‘Oom, shmoom.’ The war of
1947-8 was not a defensive war, but a war to establish something
new. Palestinians and Zionists were both living equally in
Palestine before the war. Why should one call the Zionists the
defenders and the Palestinians the attackers? One could just as
easily say the opposite. The Torah prohibits a war to take over
the land in our time. The fact that the United States and the UN
were behind the Zionists means nothing more than if the United
States and the UN would permit Jews to eat pork. Let me clarify
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what I said before. Bar Kochba made a claim that he was the
Moshiach. Even Rav Kook and the most messianic Zionists,
excepting Lubavitchers, didn't point to any particular person as
Moshiach. Read the Parsha Pearls for Tazria and you will see
that even claiming that someone is Moshiach is not enough; that
messianic candidate has to actually do something to prove
himself, either a miracle according to the Raavad or bringing
the entire Jewish people to teshuva according to the Rambam.
Now, Rav Kook, Mendel Kasher and others attempt to circumvent
these problems by saying that the building of Jerusalem and the
wars can come before Moshiach appears on the scene. But they
fail to deal satisfactorily with the issue of the oaths. How can
all these things be done unilaterally by the Jewish people
before Moshiach comes, if the oaths are still in effect? We need
nothing less than a clear sign from God, a miracle or teshuva of
the entire people, to know that the oaths are no longer in
effect.”
Ephraim said; “What is your alternative to the state at this
point in time?”
Rabbi Krasilovsky said; “The Satmar Rav, Al Hageulah V'al
Hatemurah Chapter 44, says that if the Jews told the world they
were ready to give up their statehood, the United Nations could
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certainly find a way to settle the situation without harm to any
Jew. Some Jews could be absorbed by other countries, and others
could stay and live under whatever new government is formed. We
would put an end to a Jewish state not by taking away the state
but by taking away its Jewishness. Right now, the State of
Israel has the Law of Return. It has chief rabbis and a
rabbinate. It does not recognize marriages between a Jew and a
non-Jew. It has certain Shabbos laws. The army serves kosher
food. I could go on. Additionally, there are large non-religious
parties in the Knesset who force their agenda on the government
through their voting and coalition power. There are religious
settlers who are against giving back land. All these elements
allow the Zionist state to claim to be Jewish and act in the
name of the Jewish people. If all of religious Jewry were to
separate from the state and leave it completely secular, it
could be argued that it would no longer be a Jewish state at all
and thus not violate Halacha. Even if you argue that that would
still be Jewish enough to violate the Halacha, after a certain
amount of Arab population increase and immigration from various
countries, not to mention the return of millions of Palestinian
refugees, the Jews would still be a vocal minoriy, but it would
certainly not be considered a Jewish state. And most practically
as opposed to after 72 years of conflict, there would be peace
in Israel, and that would contribute to peace in the world.”
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Ephraim said; “Thank you Rabbi. Consider me on your side.”
Rabbi Krasilovsky said; “Thank you, Ephraim. And there you have
it folks. Our time is running out, but we have another believer
in our cause. It’s a slow process, but it has to start
somewhere. Until next time I’m Rabbi Yosef Krasilovsky wishing
peace, love, and prosperity to all my friends out there in
Radioland.”
Genetics
Do Not Enter; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license; modified.
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This highly technical DNA-genetics section is put here for
those who enjoy such things and the writer’s desire not to be
criticized for its omission. For those of you like me, who have
no interest in wading through the jargon induced lack of clarity
and lack of inclusion, suffice to say that the scientific
conclusion/exclusion is that the “experts” all disagree with
each other at tedious length, and more importantly, they agree
that they are unable to confirm the Khazar=Jewish hypothesis or
the ******=****** hypothesis, nor can they deny either either,
often jumbling one with the other. A cynic might attribute this
to a purposeful deflection from a semi-competent nitwit, though
this might be giving them too much credit. Having said that, if
I were you, I’d skip to the next chapter.
A 2005 study by Nebel et al, based on Y chromosome polymorphic
markers, showed that Ashkenazi Jews are more closely related to other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than to the populations
among whom they lived in Europe. However, 11.5% of male
Ashkenazim were found to belong to Haplogroup R1a, the dominant
Y chromosome haplogroup in Eastern Europeans, suggesting
possible gene flow. Referencing “The Thirteenth Tribe,” the
study's authors note that "Some authors argue that after the
fall of their kingdom in the second half of the 10th century AD,
the Khazar converts were absorbed by the emerging Ashkenazi
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Jewish community in Eastern Europe." They conclude: "However, if
the R-M17 chromosomes in Ashkenazi Jews do indeed represent the
vestiges of the mysterious Khazars then, according to our data,
this contribution was limited to either a single founder or a
few closely related men, and does not exceed 12% of the present-
day Ashkenazim."
Writing in “Science, ” Michael Balter states Koestler's thesis
"clashes with several recent studies suggesting that Jewishness,
including the Ashkenazi version, has deep genetic roots." He
refers to a 2010 study by geneticist Harry Ostrer which found that Ashkenazi Jews "clustered more closely with Middle Eastern
and Sephardic Jews, a finding the researchers say is
inconsistent with the Khazar hypothesis" and concludes "that all
three Jewish groups; Middle Eastern, Sephardic, and Ashkenazi;
share genome wide genetic markers that distinguish them from
other worldwide populations". Geneticist Noah Rosenberg asserts that although recent DNA studies "do not appear to support" the
Khazar hypothesis, they do not "entirely eliminate it either."
The wide range of variation between Jewish populations in their
physical characteristics and the diversity of the gene
frequencies of their blood groups render any unified racial
classification for them a contradiction in terms. For although
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modern racial theory admits some degree of polymorphism or
variation within a racial group, it does not permit distinctly
different groups, measured by its own criteria of race, to be
identified as one. To do so would make the biological purposes
of racial classification futile and the whole procedure
arbitrary and meaningless ... despite the evidence efforts
continue to be made to somehow segregate the Jews as a distinct
racial entity.
Thus, attempting to claim the existence of a "race" of Jews has
been proven to be an anthropological impossibility. Though their
God consistently warned them against intermingling themselves
amongst non-Jewish races, their miscegenistic tendencies are
well documented, and has resulted in their complete erasure as a
distinct, genetic peoples.
When, inevitably, there was mixing of Western European and
Khazarian Jews, there was a notable difference between the
educational levels of the two Jewish sub-cultures. The Khazars
greatly admired their vastly less numerous, but far more
learned, Western, German speaking brethren and quickly adopted
their language, education and cultural practices. This resulted,
also, in an assimilation of their other talents in the area of
economics, business and things politik.
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Many argue that genetic studies on Jewish populations have
refuted any claims of significant Khazar lineage, and have shown
that most ethnic Jews draw their roots from the Middle East. A
genetic study led by Dr. Gil Atzmon found that European Jews
were most closely related to Middle-Eastern Jews, Palestinians,
Druze, and non-Jewish Southern Europeans; evidence inconsistent
with Khazar/Slavic hypotheses. Another genetic study led by Doron Behar found that, despite admixture from local
populations, autosomal genetic samples from the Ashkenazi Jews,
Caucasian Jews, Middle Eastern Jews, North African Jews, and
Sephardi Jews form a relatively tight genetic cluster which
overlaps with Samaritans and Israeli Druze which is strongly
indicative of common Levantine ancestry.
This argument has been challenged by one recent genetic study by
Johns Hopkins University geneticist Dr. Eran Elhaik. However,
Elhaik's study does not fully address the findings of previous
studies, particularly the overlap between Ashkenazi Jewish
populations and native endogamous Levantine populations such as
the Samaritans and Druze. Elhaik's use of Palestinian Arabs as
representative of ancestral Israelite genetics is questionable
in light of previous genetic studies which have uncovered
evidence of significant African gene flow present in Arab, but
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not non-Arab Middle Eastern populations. Blogger Razib Khan
argues that Elhaik's conclusions rely on poorly reasoned
assumptions and that "the Caucasian component that is being
detected in this paper may simply be an indigenous Middle
Eastern ancestral element which has now been somewhat displaced
northward in its modal frequency due to the expansion of the
Arabs."
None of these studies of Ashkenazi Jews have detected evidence
of a significant Central or East Asian genetic component which
is present in other Turkic populations. The actual Khazars would
likely have been assimilated by the Krymchaks (Crimean Jews)
following the fall of Khazaria. Even so, the Krymchaks had a
long history of assimilating other Jews who came to the Crimea,
so their ancestry is still largely Levantine.
Though Ashkenazi Jews are the largest ethnic group of Jews
today, Sephardim (Jews of Spanish and North African descent) and
Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern descent) make up the majority
of the Jewish population in Israel. Furthermore, Israel has
become the home of many smaller Jewish ethnic groups, such as
Ethiopian Jews, Yemenite Jews, and Kaifeng Jews. Since the
Khazar myth doesn't address those Jews at all, any use of it to
prove that "the Jews" aren't real Jews has significant holes.
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Furthermore, Judaism has allowed for voluntary conversion
through most of its history. Indeed, the great-grandmother of
King David, Ruth, was a Moabite convert. Therefore, even if the
Ashkenazi were descendants of Khazar converts, they would still
be entirely, legitimately Jewish in the eyes of Jewish law.
Additionally there is the question of gene mixing which would
inevitably occur when two populations lived close together. No
matter how stringent social or religious constraints might be
against either, mixed marriages and extramarital sex are still
going to happen. An excellent example of this are African
Americans that have a much lighter skin tone than is common in
the West African home of their ancestors. This is of course due
to widespread marital and extramarital mixture with non-black
populations in the US, and slaves often didn't have a say in the
matter. Thomas Jefferson and his children are just one well-known example of this. Obama's mother is another good example.
It turns out that one of her ancestors happened to be among the
first Africans in the colonies and arguably the first slave. And
this a result of; at best; four centuries of living side-by-
side, not twelve centuries as would be the case with the
Khazars.
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It’s nice to see that some of them agree with the “True Torah
Jews,” insofar as they disagree with each other, even if for the
wrong reasons. You see, the “True Torah Jews” position is simply
that the vast majority of Jews are not Khazar; only the bulk of
the ruling elite is.
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**32**
Very Serious Stuff
Ring, ring, ring.
“Uh oh, I was afraid this was coming. Can’t somebody get
something melodious to play on this damn thing. Alice Cooper’s
‘School is Out’ would be good. Gotta take it.”
“Hi Ras;, buddy, buddy of mine. I was expecting and dreading
this call. No offense intended.”
“ .............. “
“Yeah, I should have called first. It was difficult for me. I
felt so badly. It’s like telling your kid that Santa didn’t
bring him his bicycle, and on top of that stole the cookies and
milk. You understand. You have kids? ......... I hope I’m not
detecting considerable anger.”
“ ......... “
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“Well, I’ll forget that. No reason to speak like a rude,
linguistically challenged Demolib.”
“ ........ “
“You must understand. To put it in your terms, I figured there
was a good chance that you wouldn’t notice. I mean it’s not as
if it was a bomb, or even anything explosive. Could have come
down in someone’s back yard, and they’d have thought it was a
communication from god. They’d start worshipping it, and you
wouldn’t hear about it until it reached David Koresh cult
status.”
“ ............ “
“Jim Jones?”
“ ..... “
“Tubby Jones?”
“ .............. “
“Yeah, yeah, that loud, fat Texan.”
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“ .............. “
“Well, I think that narrows it down somewhat.”
“ ...................... “
“One tracked mind. Well, I’m truly sorry that it landed in
Yekaterinburg. In a way, you have to admit that we got a break
in that though, as there are no rich people there anyway. We
were aiming at the moon. You know how that goes. Speaking of
which, any news about that Rumpole tower in Moscow?”
“ ........... “
“Okay, okay. After you’re capitalist a little longer you’ll
understand. No offense intended, just business.”
“ ............... “
“Stuff splatted all over Dobrolyubov Street? It wasn’t supposed
to splat. Damn. Please don’t tell me it was in the old
Zyryanovsky part.”
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“ ........ “
“Shit. I liked it there. Well, maybe it’s better to be spread
out. That stuff can kill you in concentrated form.”
“ ............... “
“Okay, relax. I was just trying to look at the bright side of
it.”
“ .............. “
“Well, I don’t know what the ebatb happened. You might ask
Zelensky. I mean, I know what the ebatb happened bottom line.
Our shit flopped all over some field in your neck of the woods.
But I thought that it was kind of banal to go into that, as even
the Demolibs can figure that one out.”
“ ........... “
“Not to bore you with the, as of now, plethora of uncertain
details, let me just say ‘drone malfunction.’ That’s for
certain.”
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“ .................... “
“MHO>KECTBO, I think. The greater than and less than signs are
less overt here, and take some getting used to.”
“ ........... “
“I’m detecting that anger again, Ras. Look, I’m being more
upfront with you than I should be. Yes, drone malfunction. The
shit is not new. I could have said that it was Obomber’s fucking
drones which have been sent everywhere and have been hitting
hospitals and apartment complexes in the Middle East since the
uncooperative bastards were invented. It’s cultural. You might
do well to understand that over here we get some holy hell over
the gas attacks, but since that, let me not say that word,
Obomber was quite okay with drones up the tuchis, and nobody
dares complain.”
“ ................. “
“Fine, fine. If you insist. Just try to calm down a little bit.
Jeez. We were trying to be responsible world citizens, and shoot
the nuclear waste into space, at great personal cost I might
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add, and for some reason the disposable shit fell in your
backyard. I can never convey how sorry I, indeed we am or are.”
“ ............... “
“All right, if you want to sit through all this stuff. As best I
can understand it, we wanted to get rid of the toxic crap, due
to reports of contaminated and aggressive libtard zombies in
Jersey, that likely the result of that ‘after, therefore because
of’ fallacy in logic ....... “
“ ............. “
“It’s that densely packed little state, where everybody was
dumping their shit, until those environmentalist weirdos started
to pretend they were worried about some fucking dodo habitat;
the commies trying to wreck free commerce. Believe me pal; you
are fortunate to not yet have to deal with this kind of
............ “
“ ...................... “
“My apologies. I thought they’d all be dead by now. I’m not
trying to divert. It’s all related. So, like we’re trying to
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avoid the zombie apocalypse as cheap as possible. Right? I mean,
that’s how it always goes with those Dems, unless you want to
bend over for Mexicans, Muslims, and other Darkies. And, it’s
not like we can dump the shit on Poland. So, the sciency guys
............. “
“ ................. “
“Okay, okay. I wasn’t disparaging. No value judgement there,
pal. Frankly, I wish we had access to a Poland. We tried Cuba
and everyone knows how that turned into embarrassing aepbmo.
That stupid fucking rube Kruschev couldn’t even keep his shoes
on at the UN, please pardon any incorrectly taken innuendos I
did not intend, and that Castro jerk who succeeded in sending
every useful Cuban to the US; thank you, you, thank you.
.......... ”
“ ............ “
“Anyway, the sciency guys told us that they could cost-
efficiently shoot the undesirable stuff into space.”
“ ......................... “
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“Yeah, you and I know that. But, what you may not fully
appreciate is that over here those pencil necks are aligned with
the Commie Resistance, and when they say something with their
supposed Ivy League honors credentials, it’s a losing fight to
argue. All of a sudden you’re a stupid layperson who doesn’t
know their ass from a korochka, and then the Dems get a month’s
play on CCCP calling you stupid ......... “
“ ................ “
“Yeah, okay; my problem. But, it’s not so simple to make them
disappear over here. I wish, but we got all these goddam
reporters, and everyone has a fucking camera, and ....... “
“ ............. “
“Figured if it fell, it would do that long after we’re both
dead; so who cares? Sure, fuck the scientists; you and I both
don’t need them to know that what goes up must come down. .....
Spinning wheel got to go round. You got no money and you got no
........ something or other. Always liked that catchy tune. It
even made the CCCP top 40 charts?”
“ ............. “
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“Still hearing some of that anger. Watch out. At our ages you
can get an aneurism. Anyway, if you insist on all the detail,
......... What was I up to?”
“ ................ “
“I didn’t mean it that way, pal.”
“ ................. “
“Chance word choice. Really. Come on, Ras. You’re beginning to
sound like one of those po-mo, pop psychology guys.”
“ .............. “
“Yeah sure, McElroy was the best and those effeminate critics
either ignore or chastise him, just because he was friends with
Mailer, as if ........ “
“ ............ “
“Sorry. Okay. Off topic. More or less. But, you know that it was
you who made the call, set the agenda, and I’m like just
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supposed to be sitting here babbling about some thing you deem
important, while it’s not the largest of unstable turds to moi.
You know what I mean? I really think it might do you some good
to take your teddy bear and go to a New Age meeting.”
“ ............... “
“Ah shit, Ras. You guys backward or what? They’re old farts who
missed the hippie thing the first time through, so they do yoga,
listen to flute music, and ‘radiate’ beautiful feelings into the
world.”
“ ...... “
“Really. No shit. Scout’s honor.”
“ ......... “
“Hehe. Yeah, Monica Blewitzky is undoubtedly one of them.”
“ ..................... “
“It wasn’t my fault. You asked. It would be beneficial to all
concerned if you got some kind of anger management.”
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“ ............. “
“Fine with me. If you want to risk that aneurism, it’s up to
you. .......... Where was I?”
“ ........... “
“Yeah, yeah. So the sciency guys told us that they could shoot
the waste into space cheap. So, you know, okay, what can you do
in the US when up against the Dems, the Ivy Leaguers, and the
libtard zombies? Then, when, and take me at my layman’s word for
this, the second stage of the rocket didn’t disengage as it was
supposed to do, as the sciency guys, supposedly under pressure,
cheaped up on the goddam disengaging devise, and the whole shit
stayed stuck together, and kept up an inordinate amount of
weight, which burned out the rocket fuel before it could leave
the atmosphere, and the goddam needle hit empty, the thing went
sput, sput, sput, sput, sput and came plunging down on
Yankeeburg ............ “
“ .............. “
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“Okay, Yekaterinburg, whatever. Damn Ras, you’re more of a
detail man than I ever thought. ...... “
“ ............ “
“Right, right. Again, no value judgement overt or implied.
Please get over your penchant to take things personally for your
own good ........... “
“ .................. “
“No, that wasn’t a threat. It was just stated out of legitimate
concern for a capitalistic pal’s flirtation with an aneurism.”
“ ........... “
“You might have noticed that I’m graciously trying to relate the
story you demanded or requested, and your persistent anger
display delays that, and then you get further angry over the
delay, your risk, and then the whole personal and friendly
relationship thing turns into a long-winded disjoint, replete
with a perennially branching set of side issues ....... “
“ .......... “
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“Fine. Just fine. You can kiss mine too, Ras. I’m starting to
understand that anger, and now I’m getting pissed. So, to end
this bullshit, the sciency nerd guys fucked up again, and, as
always, they blamed the cost constraints imposed upon them for
their deficiency, which, had they any sense, which apparently
they might have, judging by their pay, was an impediment to
their calculations, conveniently so ........ “
“ ............ “
“Look! If we wanted to pull off an ‘accidental’ intentional, and
had any real control over it, don’t you think we’d have dropped
it on that funny looking ass-pain in Seoul? Nobody would even
give a shit. Or, even Obama’s pal in Tehran. They wouldn’t even
be able to tell the difference using a Geiger counter with all
the radioactive shit they got over there. Or, I’d have dropped
it on Moscow. I’m not saying that I’m the smartest guy in the
world; maybe richest; but just give me a little credit. Jeez.”
“ ............. “
“Thank you, brother man. A trusted ancestor looked unto thine
eyes and judged you a good man. So, the shit fell down, the
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‘reasons’ fodder for a few decades of inconclusive intellectual
study, all no doubt government subsidized. For my small part I
can only offer my sincerest of apologies, with a wish that you
can make use of the waste by dosing those nutzoid, trouble-
making, small market, ‘investigative’ reporters.”
“ ............. “
“You’re a step ahead of me, bro. Put yourself in my place for a
moment. We and I know that whatever the sciency guys audaciously
suspect will be later amended, their explanation for that when
infrequently called upon to explain, consistently done in a
manner decipherable only others sciency-guy-afflicted-or-
syndromed, some testimony concerning the inadequacy of measuring
devices is proffered, ‘now upgraded and state-of-the-art,’ that
a perennial stance, perennially accepted in blind faith, the
imperfect god answer tendered by a group of increasingly heard,
thanks to the internet, and pencil-necked rejects in a false
remission of their envious false-neckededness, ........ “
“ ........... “
“Yeah, right. But besides that, if we instructed the pencil
necks to hit Yankeeburg and make it look accidental, I have
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little doubt that the shit would have come down on fucking Des
Moines or Baltimore. I was getting sick of the shit myself. Fuck
it, that not a commentary on yours, but rather a possible
incorrect inducement, personally perceived, unaware of the
redundancy which might be reasonably inferred through the easily
differentiations personally biased as ‘minor,’ if not elsewhere,
most often commonly characterized as meta .... “
“ ............................ “
“Yeah. Yeah. The shit and radioactive waste is real. Bad
analogy. More directly on topic, insofar as that can be defined
with inevitable deferences to the significance of those who pull
the strings; like forgotten, and some would say rightly so, King
Crimson 1968. I’m kind of lost for the ensuing 51 years, Ras,
old pal, old pal. There’s been a mind-shift ‘sucessfully’
popularized in the lumpen proletariat. Nyet? On a more personal
level, what exactly is it that makes you so angry and adamant
about what is an inevitable issue of borders or their lack,
multi-nationals making the latter irrelevant, the opposing
viewpoint, insofar as that manifeststs itself falsely as having
been determined, conducive to your demonstrated interest. Are
you kidding me? You gotta be jerkin’ my chain.”
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“ ................. “
“Excellent point, my hopefully not irradiated friend. No matter
the result, intent is always at the core. I suppose that it’s
easy for me to say, but consider my position. You may come to
appreciate the obviousness of it, at least in this case. Look.
Had I desired to use the subterfuge of a sciency mistake to
contaminate the land of an ‘enemy,’ long before my now
capitalistic northern friend, I’d have logically chosen to dose
North Korea, Iran, or any of a number of minor ass-pains in
those shithole countries. Being in a most similar position, you
surely appreciate that. What can I say further? Shit and
radioactive waste happen.”
“ .................................. “
“Fair enough. You have my word. No US interference if you want
to annex the Ukraine. If you have to kill a bunch of Jews to do
so, fine with me. Fucking bastards have a habit of shoving their
Zioniist asses everywhere, anyway. In fact, if you’d like to
annex Poland, no sweat.”
“ ............. “
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“Don’t blame you, bro. Just an option.”
“ .............. “
“Well, if it comes out, we can do the usual ‘fake news’ thing
and deny it. If it goes further, we can admit to some small,
insignificant extent of Jew-extinguishment, and how we mourn
that yadda yadda, and bog them down with details the ‘experts’
will still be studying and disagreeing about a half century from
now.”
“ ............. “
“You too, man. The anger has subsided, I guess.”
“ ........... “
“Once again, so sorry for the accident. Hope it’s not too much a
problem.”
“ ............... “
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“Bye, Ras, brother of mine. Hey, whenever you’re in town, feel
free to stop over for a few brewskies. Maybe we can get Monica
Blewitzky over too.”
Click.
Click.
“Hehe. I think he bought it. Frozen piroshky.”
.........................
On a plane, hovering over the continental US like a dragonfly
upon a tomb.
“Whoops. Ooooh boy. I should have told you not to touch that
button."
"Yeah, you really should have."
"Sorry, I've had a lot on my mind lately. The wife’s been
bringin’ up that ....... Whooo, would you look at that thing
go?” Let me get some more altitude here."
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"Can't you do something?"
“I’m getting it up.”
“No. I mean about the bomb, idiot.”
"Well, first of all, I think we would do well to remain civil.
You know, those techies haven’t been able to make any that work
exactky like a yo-yo yet. So, you got whatcha got; sort of like
no-draw poker. Anyway, yeah, my wife, you know, she's been
.............. "
"We're gonna get in a whole lot of trouble for this."
"Well, it’s not my fingerprints that are on the button."
"Oh, really. So it's like that, huh?"
"That was a little joke. Let me just double check something.
........... Got a break. We're somewhere over Jersey now, and
the boss can say it was part of some urban renewal project or
something. ............... Whooo, boy. Look at that mushroom
spread out. Awesome."
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"Amazing how it doesn't make that much noise."
"Damn. Excuse me. I've gotta take this one."
Click.
“Hiya from polluted space.”
“ ............................ “
"Yeah, yeah. I see it. It would be hard to miss the fucker. I
don't know."
“ ............................ “
"Well, that strikes me as being just a tad judgmental. That’s
not necessarily the case."
“ ............................... “
“Well, no I don't have one in my possession right at this very
moment. But, I’m getting there and the guys at packing may have
forgotten to load it again."
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“ .................................. “
"Yeah, helluva sight. You oughta be right here to see it. Can't
possibly be as good on film."
“ ................................. “
"Yeah, right. No problemo, chief.”
“ ............... “
“Yes, yes, all right. I said okay. Jeez.”
Click.
“Chief’s all right, but sometimes he can get so old school.
Damn. Gotta make another call.”
Click.
“Yeah listen, Beverly. I need to call in a report. We sighted a
Russian plane about ten minutes ago."
“ ...................................... “
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"Well, I was talking to the boss, and he started chronicling the
entire litany of his troubles and the whole enchilada again. You
know how that goes. I didn't want to be rude."
“ ....................................... “
“That’s easy for you to say from down there.”
“ .................... “
“Yeah, luv ya too babe. Been way too long.” Eye roll.
“ ........................ “
“Thanks. Great how you can change the time on those things.”
“ ......................... “
"No, no. The Russkie is totally out of sight now. Those suckers
can really move when they feel like it."
“ ........................ “
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"Okay, bringin’ it right in."
Click.
"What?"
"Paperwork. We gotta fill out some forms. Let’s just get our
story straight first. We saw this Russian plane and then soon
after we saw the mushroom. Beyond that we don't know nuthin’
else. Nuthin’. It'll be OK."
"Cool. ................ hey, got any idea what town got hit?"
"Ummn. Let me take a look. Thing says Atlantic City."
"Super cool. My know-it-all-brother-in-law lives or should I say
used to live there. Hahahaha."
"Hahahahahahaha."
“Think we oughta get ourselves a mouthpiece?”
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“Yeah, good idea. Cost is covered under the standard contract.
Rather than one, maybe we should get two; one for each of us.
You never know what future stuff might pop up.”
*HIGH FIVES *
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Crowd and “Lose Yourself” by Jeffrey Irwin Bass, Marshall B. Mathers, and Luis Edgardo Resto;
property of the author, the latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.
News – 5-28-22
Your Memorex Politico
May 20, 2022.
An Official War?
Whatever Will the Combatants Think?
Will It Matter?
by Seraphina Grumman-Popkin, PhD
A Coming Russia-Ukraine War?
A new draft law adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament and awaiting
Petro Poroshenko’s signature threatens to escalate the Ukrainian
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conflict, which many have already termed a war into a full blown
official war, pitting nuclear armed Russia and one Ukraine
faction against the nuclear armed United States, nuclear armed
Israel, and the other Ukanian faction, that list likely
incomplete according to Gilbert Doctorow, CCCP Eastern European
Specialist for US-Israel bashing. It is further noted that the
Ukranian factions have a habit of changing sides.
While much of America’s, and the world’s attention focused this
weekend in a further reflection upon Bailey Post Rumpole’s first
five months of his second term stint in the Oval Office, holding
one year anniversary events for the historic Women’s March and
drawing up balance sheets of his promises and achievements,
Russia has had a rather different issue on the front burner; a
possible war with Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Thisdoes not look like a happy camper.
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The situation in the Donbass region of southeastern Ukraine has
been a feature of Russia’s political talk shows for the past
couple of years, along with the military campaign in Syria and
more recently the stages in the preparation for presidential
elections.
Focus on the Donbass conflict increased in the closing weeks of
the 2019 elections, as military action on the front lines
separating the forces of the self-proclaimed republics of
Donetsk and Lugansk which enjoy Russian support from Ukrainian
militias and armed forces reached an intensity not seen for more
than a year. This is despite the heralded exchange of military
prisoners by both sides before new year under talks supervised
by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill.
Then, this past Thursday came a wholly new development; a draft
law passed by the Ukrainian Parliament that could effectively
end Kiev’s participation in the conflict resolution process
known as the Minsk Accords. Although observers in the United
States and Western Europe may have missed it, many Russians
believe this development amounts to a declaration of war.
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Dmitri Kiselyov, head of all Russian television and radio news
services, offered a sober analysis of the emotionally charged
development on his Sunday evening news wrap-up today.
According to Kiselyov, the new law, which awaits Poroshenko’s
signature, makes preparations for war and includes language
indicating a bellicose new approach to the conflict. The mission
in Donbass is no longer described as an “anti-terrorist
operation.” Rather, the mission now is to send armed forces,
including Israeli conscipts, against “military formations of the
Russian Federation” in Donbass.
Military headquarters are established to coordinate the
operation to be waged in Donbass. While up until now the self-
declared republics of Donetsk and Lugansk were considered under
the Minsk Accords as negotiating parties, now there are only
“occupation administrations” of the Russian Federation on these
territories, with Russia identified as an “aggressor.”
“This makes it all the more convenient for Ukraine to start a
war,” Kiselyov says, noting that it could have the added benefit
of enabling Ukraine not to pay its foreign debts and to ensure
Poroshenko’s continued grip on power. A Memorex Politico
reporter on the ground in Donetsk confirmed with local residents
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their view that the law means war. They see the current moment
on the front line as “the calm before the storm.” Donetsk
soldiers at their trenches say they are fully ready to engage
with the enemy.
While Kiselyov acknowledges that the draft law might not
ultimately be implemented, it nevertheless reveals a growing
mood in the Ukrainian capital in favor of escalation. The facts
speak for themselves, Kiselyov says, with Poroshenko failing to
adhere to the Minsk Accords; for example by organizing local
elections in Donbass, or to observe ceasefires along the lines
of contact. There are attacks and deaths every day and only
counter forces have pushed back recent Ukrainian attempts to
gain territory.
Kiev has seemingly written off the population of the two self-
proclaimed republics; cutting off all transport and telecom
links and failing to pay pensions and assistance to the needy.
It closed the banking system and there are no commercial ties.
For Kiev the two provinces are merely territory to take back
from the occupiers, with the well-being of the local populations
at best a secondary concern.
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On the economic front, the European Union has refused to extend
600 million euros of credit to Ukraine, citing “persistent high
level political corruption” as the reason for the decline, while
refusing to address Ukraine’s obvious inability to service
existing obligations. The International Monetary Fund recently
refused a tranche of $800 million over failure to introduce
reforms. Meanwhile, later in 2022 Ukraine is due to start
repaying earlier loans. This will come to $14 billion a year,
which amounts to half the state budget of Ukraine.
Due to dire economic conditions, Poroshenko and other government
officials in Kiev have become deeply unpopular, and with
diminished chances for electoral success may see war as
politically advantageous. And although there are indications
that some Western leaders are fed up with Kiev, the United
States has doubled down in its support for a military solution
to the conflict. With military trainers now on the ground and
the US budgeting $350 million for security assistance to Ukraine, Washington has also recently started delivering lethal
weapons including the Javelin anti-tank missile system free of
charge to Kiev. Former US Vice President Biden’s investments in
Ukraine ports have been officially denied, thereby eliminating
that as a motive for the US presence and gifts.
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In contrast to the image of Rumpole administration policies
being dictated by Moscow, as has been portrayed and fruitlessly
Mueller investigated for the past four years, by proponents of
Russia-gate conspiracy theories, the United States is instead
moving towards deeper confrontation with the Kremlin in the
geopolitical hotspot of Ukraine. For its part, the Kremlin has
very little to gain and a great deal to lose economically and
diplomatically from a campaign against Kiev. If successful, as
likely would be the case given the vast disparity in military
potential of the two sides, it could easily become a Pyrrhic
victory.
But notwithstanding Kiselyov’s reassuring words on his Sunday
evening news wrap-up, it may well be the case that Moscow feels
it has no choice. Moves by Kiev to exacerbate the conflict must
be quickly countered to prevent deeper intervention by the
United States, Israel, and US NATO allies in order to prevent
the conditions conducive to WWIII from taking hold.
The Islamic Jihadist Daily (more or less)
May 20, 2022.
ISIS Takes Credit for New Blast
by Aaban Noori
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Blast Claimed by Islamic State Kills US Troops in Syria
A bomb attack claimed by ISIS killed six US troops and twnty-two
civilians working for the US military in the northern Syrian
city of ar-Raqqah yesterday. This comes just a few weeks after
US President Bailey Post Rumpole said the group had been
defeated there and that he would pull out all American forces.
The immediate response to this action has been threefold;
1) Rumpole said that he has received no such report from his
deep state intelligence operatives, and would put no credence in
it until reported by a reputable organization not in the
business of fake news.
2) The possibility of it having been a fake flag operation is
still being investigated as it seems counter productive from the
ISIS point of view, as it poses a reason why US troops should
remain.
3) Confirming previous evaluations given by Al-Qaeda officials,
at all levels ISIS is comprised of brain damaged thugs.
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Ar-Raqqah officials could not be reached for comment, as they
have either been in hiding been in hiding or their heads have
been utilized to line ISIS coffers.
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