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April 16, 2020 | 9,217 Comments »

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  2. Where’s Ukraine? 84 Percent of Americans Don’t Know,

    Sebastien, about the same percentage of Americans could not find Israel on the map, even if it were put in front of their eyes. Is that a valid reason, to let it fall to the Arabs?

  3. It is utterly nonsensical to place any faith in any poll…

    …and what should I have faith in? Peloni’s word? The fact remains, that the vast majority of Americans are pro-Ukrainian.

  4. @Honeybee You should have said the title. Marvelous. “LA SERENA – Sephardic Music / Ladino Love Song | Ke Guo (Gu? K?)s”

    ”
    2,297 views Oct 25, 2020
    Performance as part of the online concert “Homenaje a la cultura y concierto de musica en Ladino”, hosted by Amigos Por Israel (Argentine).

    Entire concert video:

    • HOMENAJE A LA CULTURA Y EL IDIOMA LADINO
    Transcript”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjACC9O7kE

  5. Ukraine continues to hold less and less Ukrainian land by the day

    Peloni, The front lines in Ukraine are essentially right where they were a year ago. Check it out. Meanwhile, yes, Russia has lost half its Black Sea fleet to a country that has no navy, and has lost about 300.000 men. It has also lost hundreds of tanks, plus armored vehicles, antimissile batteries, etc., considerably more than the Ukraine. I am more certain that the war will be going full tilt this coming November, than I am that the US will have presidential elections this year.

  10. @Michael

    76% of Americans believe Ukrainian victory is important

    It is utterly nonsensical to place any faith in any poll in a nation where elections are brazenly stolen as has been the case in the US. Even if the pollsters conducting this poll had not been implicated in the election fraud of 2020, and Fox played a major role in validating that fraud, the only value which an honest poll might have is how much fraud might be needed for the Selectees to be reelected.

    In fact, if the Congress believed the outcome of this Fox poll, where three out of four Americans would support sending billions to Ukraine while the US economy is flagging, the Ukraine bill wouldn’t need to be pasted to aid for Israel, as it would sail thru without any need of such shenanigans to pass. Instead, there is less, not more, Congressional support for Ukraine in recent months, while the Israeli aid package has also not provided the needed leverage to push for the Ukrainian bound Neocon boondoggle thru the Congress.

    No doubt the correct mix of promises and pretenses will be added to the Ukraine aid bill to someday push it uphill across the finish line, but the reality is that this poll from Fox lacks all credibility based on everything we know about Fox, and every action being taken in the Congress on Ukraine aid.

  11. @Michael

    Russia’s Black Sea fleet is getting annihilated

    The irony remains that no matter how many elements of the Black Sea fleet are or are not sunk, Ukraine continues to hold less and less Ukrainian land by the day, without any mention by those who claim to support Ukraine. As the Russians continue to make gains across Ukraine, most significantly and materially in Avdiika and Chavis Yar, the celebration of the sinking of the whole Black Fleet would seem to make little difference to the war effort which is a terrestrial campaign, and yet the Neocons grow delirious with excitement with claims of another naval success in this land war, demonstrating their true interest in this war which was never Ukraine. Indeed, if the war was designed to keep Ukraine in Ukrainian hands, we could only lament that this war has been an utter failure. Truthfully, he fact that this war goes on without any hope of supplying Ukraine with the means which it lacks to win this war exposes the reality that the war was always designed to simply degrade the Russian military, which is why the West will not allow Ukraine to negotiate a settlement. In fact, this war will continue until wiser leadership in the West replaces the Neocons who now control such matters, to th ruin of Russia and Ukraine alike. I will remind you of what Tom Luongo stated a year ago: what do the Neocons call a million or so dead Slavs [plus or minus the Black Sea Fleet] – a good start.

  15. Mayorkas has Obama halo!

    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822/489131

    https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/6/3/1433336926729/25cb9010-a2e0-4fad-b630-28c11667f574-2060×1236.jpeg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none

    (Either Mayorkas has a bigger head, or Obama has a bigger halo). Read JP article: US Jewish groups think impeaching a Jew is “antisemitic”

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-786830

  16. @ketzel2 You may have a point. And, do Muslims invite Jews to talk about their experiences on their religious holidays? Or even set foot there? Jews get arrested for praying on the Temple Mount. Who are the real racists, here? Yes, I’ve changed my mind.

  19. Netanyahu said today:

    “We actually want to bring to the demilitarization of the Strip. This requires our security control and responsibility over the entire area west of the Jordan, including the Gaza Strip. There is no alternative to this in the foreseeable future. We are saying this to the international community as well, to the President of the US, and to all leaders. There is no alternative.

  20. Edgar

    Thanks. I know enough to know this history is very complicated and consider Putin being attacked (by Tucker also even) for raising history.

    I have been placing some general points down and will let you guys know when finished.

    1812 for sure. That is certainly there.

  22. The problem has been the absence of a level playing field in Gaza but I’m pleased to see the IDF beginning to rectify that situation through affirmative action at least to the extent that Biden, Blinken, Gallant and Ganz will permit.

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  25. From Mako.co.il:

    • Sources in Israel report that the desire to maneuver in Rafah is to pressure Sinwar to compromise

    • The Egyptians fear refugee movement in their direction following the attack and have installed protective measures on the fence

    • In Israel they claim that the Egyptians are not opposed to the IDF entering Rafah, but want the move to be done in coordination with them

    • As part of the IDF’s plan Refugees will be evacuated from Rafah to places south of the Gaza River and the coastal area of ??southern Gaza, but not to the north of the Gaza Strip

  26. FELIX-

    I think that Russia, when it concerned defence, was deeply influenced by the 1812 result of Napoleonic invasion. They surely felt that if they could hold out until winter, they’d win.

    Even so I recall that inn WW2, the Russians, seeing the Bazis so swiftly advancing and capturing large swathes of territory, and how ineffectual were the Russian defences, had already made plans to remove beyond the Urals if Moscow was captured.

    Stalin was a megalomaniac monster who murdered on slight or no pretext, , and, as you say the most of the senior Army officers, leaving Russia with almost no defences against Hitler.
    I always recall the murder of the Jewish doctors.

    You are our Russia expert and would know far more than any of us about those times.

  28. Hi, Felix. I see that you addressed me:

    I would like Michael to learn that words and actions on any forum have relevance. Michael consider this…

    Highlight was Putin patience in explaining how in Turkey April 2022 there was a peaceful outcome almost certain until Johnson’s lies and MICHAEL’S LIES ALSO intervened with the scalliwag confusionist Zorn confusing everything he touches…happened HERE

    The bitter result up to a million dead people. THAT is yours to own Michael. IMHO.

    Before Putin finally got around to mentioning April, 2022, he led us through perhaps an hour of rehashing Russian history, Putin style. He began by appropriating Ukrainian history (Kievan Rus) as Russian. For reference, Kiev was made a political entity, as Putin notes, by Varangians from modern-day Sweden, who were called “Rus”.

    Russia and Ukraine were wild places then, as was the rest of Europe: At one point, Burgundy, in modern Switzerland, was the scene of a battle between Magyars from the east, Arabs from the south and Norsemen (akin to the Rus) from the north. I read somewhere that the Rus were so violent, their chief had to have five bodyguards protecting him while he relieved himself.

    Meanwhile, as Putin pointed out, the “Russians” (i.e. Russians and Ukrainians both) were “baptized” into Eastern Orthodox Christianity. At the same time, their Slavic brothers in Poland (who shared a common language with them), were inducted into Roman Christianity by Charlemagne, the Frankish king.

    After this, an event occurred that Putin quickly glossed over: the Mongol invasion of Europe. Poland and Lithuania successfully drove back the Mongols and their Pagan Turkish allies, while the Russians became subject to them. Belarus, meanwhile, was absorbed by Lithuania and Ukraine by Poland. Putin claims the Poles mistreated the Ukrainians; but in fact, they were allowed, as Polish subjects, to freely practice Christianity. Russia, meanwhile, were under the Golden Horde, which became Muslim. They adopted Asian ways, to the point that Russian czars

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_monarchs#/media/File:Simeon_Dumny.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_monarchs#/media/File:Vasili_III_of_Russia.jpg

    resembled Mongol khans more than Western kings and princes. Ukraine, meanwhile, shared Poland’s more civilized ways — including the absorption of most of Europe’s Jews, who had largely been driven out of Western Europe.

    Enter the Russian-speaking Cossacks,

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Ilja_Jefimowitsch_Repin_-_Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks_-_Yorck.jpg/800px-Ilja_Jefimowitsch_Repin_-_Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks_-_Yorck.jpg

    the vanguard of Russian imperialism. During 1648-1657, Bohdan Khmelnytsky and his Russian-backed Cossack army rose up in rebellion against the Poles and their Jewish allies, slaughtering thousands. Putin refers to this time, mentioning the year “1652” more than once. This was the real beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it was sanguinely Antisemitic.

    I won’t bore you, as Putin did me, for two hours; so I just hit some highlights. There have certainly been some lies making their rounds here, but they were not from Michael S and Boris Johnson.

  29. More blatant disinformation from Michael. He never rests. There is a patriotic feeling for this unwelcome war in Russia. They understand the significance of nukes on a Ukraine border with Bandera Nazis as proxies of NATO.

    Others should fight this misinformation by Michael. It is not without harm.

    The key moment was April 2022. Place was Turkey. Player to watch was Mr Boris Johnson. Britain again. Cost 1 million lives.

    Not rocket science to understand.

  30. Hi, Edgar.

    …Behind them were Commissars who would drive them forward into the grinding mill.
    If thy needed more bullets they were to search the bodies and/or rifles of whatever dead soldiers that they were surrounded by.

    That was their “training” for non-stop war.

    I never studied Stalingrad, to the depth that you have. Your account lines up very well with current Russian tactics, in places like Bakhmut and Avdiyvka.

  32. @Felix

    “Only Marxism which is what I am based on can survive because it is scientific.

    Marxism only interprets past events. Name an event Marxists successfully predicted.

  33. Edgar

    Behind them were Commissars who would drive them forward into the grinding mill

    All of that may be true but most likely partially true

    My take…Stalin was the gravedigger of the 1917 revolution

    Just prior to 1941 was the Moscow Trials so a total brute

    And he left Russia nearly without defence when the Nazis struck.

    But you must realise there was very much more to this story because Russia did win.

    We have been robbed of knowledge of this history just as has happened concerning this war in Ukraine

  34. I meant something like this…no theoretical foundation. A closeness to Bakunin type anarchism so that you tore Russia out of history and pronounced it Fascism same as Hitler.

    Out of such things will grow really false characterisation

    See my comment on the interview where I wrote about how the establishment will try to bury the interview.

    In general there is massive pressure on Zionism by the ruling class because they know Zionism is a very important influential thing.

    Only Marxism which is what I am based on can survive because it is scientific.

    I believe that Israel is facing Nazi or Fascist movements in Hamas/Fatah

    This is an issue for all.

    You mention hobbies. For me no. I truly wish there was no need for this stuff but the opposite is the case.

    We are now caught in a vice… necessity

    Of global warming if no answer then 2 degrees will be messy

    First year last year to pass 1.5 degrees…….Chile much loss of life…the evidence too many things to mention here.

  35. @Felix

    “People also ask
    What did Scallywag mean?
    In United States history, the pejorative scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › S…
    Scalawag – Wikipedia”

    OK, I can live with that. Had to look it up. You’re not an “old Commie”” as Laura suggested, you’re an antiquarian Commie. But we already knew that. Tres cool. We each have our hobbies. 😀

  36. The first thing to say about the interview was that it was a lesson in communication. Tucker representing the western media method all about you must be INTERESTING.

    Immediately Putin put that to bed saying do you want a show or a relaxed discussion?

    Tucker was not at all able to carry an informed discussion. Not strictly his fault. Trained in a faulty method. He realised his situation and listened.

    Then followed a masterclass in clarity which will make our media forever seeking vengeance.

    I would like Michael to learn that words and actions on any forum have relevance. Michael consider this…

    Highlight was Putin patience in explaining how in Turkey April 2022 there was a peaceful outcome almost certain until Johnson’s lies and MICHAEL’S LIES ALSO intervened with the scalliwag confusionist Zorn confusing everything he touches…happened HERE

    The bitter result up to a million dead people. THAT is yours to own Michael. IMHO.

    So it does come home to Israpundit thanks especially to those two.

  37. I recall reading several accounts by Russian survivors of the battle for Stalingrad.
    They were generally the same in saying that they were scooped up by “press gangs” of Soviets led by Commissars, shoved into worn out uniforms often with bullet holes and blood on them, then brought straight to the Battle, lined up and as the line advanced it was seen that they would be climbing over dead bodies of Soviet “soldiers” like themselves, given a rifle and 5 bullets, and told to shoot in front of them. Behind them were Commissars who would drive them forward into the grinding mill.
    If thy needed more bullets they were to search the bodies and/or rifles of whatever dead soldiers that they were surrounded by.

    That was their “training” for non-stop war.

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  39. @Michael S.

    “Ketzel was right — they are trying to bore us to death. This is Sun Tzu unrestricted warfare.”

    Actually, that’s Lenin. It’s the strategy he called, “Boring from within” 😀

  45. The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust.[4] Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive.[5]

    At least 40 ethnic Poles carried out the killing; their ringleaders decided on it beforehand with Germany’s Gestapo, SS security police or SS intelligence, and they cooperated with German military police.[

    https://www.israpundit.org/chit-chat/comment-page-122/#comment-63356000272561

  49. @ketzel2 Both true. So what? The irony of events as they are unfolding is that for most of the last few hundred years, Western Ukraine (Ukrainian Ukraine) was part of Poland and Eastern Ukraine (Russian Ukraine) was part of Russia and then the Soviet Union. I just had an idea for a Broadway musical based on this. It could be called, “West Side Story.” What do you think?

    “The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union … Wikipedia

    And everybody massacred the Jews so why have sympathy for any of these bastards?

    “For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941.”

    https://www.britannica.com/event/Katyn-Massacre

    “Poland says the 1943-44 massacre of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists was genocide. Entire villages were burned down and all their inhabitants killed by nationalists and their helpers who sought to establish an independent Ukraine state.”

    https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-poland-volhynia-massacre-reconciliation-0a44c28c5ae5aa6c9e8afa020f27d72e