A handful of leaflets left outside of a Donetsk synagogue demanding Jews “register” with the eastern autonomous regional government and pay a special fee were a hoax, but the hysteria they have caused is very real.
That’s a problem for a lot of people, including eastern protest leaders falsely labeled as anti-Semites because of the forgery, but the biggest headache is reserved for Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski, who is trying to calm everyone down, and not having much luck.
Since the phony narrative is much more interesting than the idea of someone leaving a couple forged documents outside trying to start a ruckus, that’s what most people keep going with, and US and Ukrainian officials continue to cite the incident as though it was absolute fact, and proof of Russia plotting a pogrom.
Interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk insisted he has ordered the military and the Ukrainian Department of Homeland Security (it is unclear if that even exists) to “find these bastards,” and made it clear in his comments that he means the Donetsk officials who were wrongly implicated, not the forgers. Ukraine has been attacking the east anyhow, and this is the latest pretext.
Rabbi Vishedski wishes everyone would just leave Donetsk Jewish community out of this nonsense, noting that actual anti-Semitism in eastern Ukraine is “rare, unlike in Kiev and western Ukraine.”
Speaking of which, reports have emerged over the weekend that a synagogue in Nikolayev, near the western city of Lviv, was firebombed by persons unknown. Western Ukraine, particularly around Lviv, has a significant presence of the neo-Nazi Right Sector, which despite its swastika-wearing, truncheon-wielding ways, insists it has nothing to do with any anti-Semitism.
Interim PM to 'Find These Bastards', look no further then your closet, under your bed or those whom you have early morning briefing about situation in Ukraine, by the way don't forget to ask Anders Fogh Rasmussen or that Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt for help, that is to say if you can't see these bastards which you are looking for.
I think the citizens of North Korea are better informed than we are here in America, because they know that what they hear is government propaganda and most Americans believe what they hear from our "free and independent" press is the truth and they accept as fact what they hear from our corporate controlled media without question.
The secret weapon that will subjugate the American people is the remote control.
Used properly, it could also set them free.
I don't think the antiwar readers are always so badly misinformed . I believe they are getting a fair perspective of all sides by what they say here .
Who benefits from a disinformation campaign or firebombings designed to depict western Ukrainians as "fascists" and eastern Ukrainians as sweet people whose only desire is to be clasped to the bosom of Mother Russia?
who benifited when Yugoslavia was destroyed , The same people that took over Ukraine
Ok, can anyone explain why
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-…
says that Nikolayev, at position
49.5261,23.981724
near Lemberg (Mises' birthplace, right?) is in "southeastern Ukraine"?
Maybe there is a confusion with the other Niklolayev, near Odessa at
46.985874,31.990585 ?
Which one is it now?