"Mishenichnas Adar..."

1 Adar Bet 5782
Rosh Chodesh Bet

BS”D Parashat Pekudei 5782
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Mar 2, 2022

Three Parts: Unwanted Guests – Jew Be Proud – Eisav vs Eisav

There are many people here in Eretz Yisrael whose very presence is delaying the miracles which will usher in the age of the Mashiach; they will have to leave. My brother and sister Jews – Be proud. We are Hashem’s chosen people!

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MISHENICHNAS ADAR MARBIM B'SIMCHAH!

~ SHABBAT SHALOM - CHODESH TOV ~

FOREBODING

30 Adar Aleph 5782
Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet 

Smart Jews have to be asking themselves why Israel, Jews and Holocaust imagery are being so prominently and persistently featured in a war between Russia and Ukraine.  Smart Jews have to be wondering if we are being set up for something awful.  It's just too weird.  

The President of Ukraine, who tried to play down his Jewish origins prior to this, has suddenly come out as Jewish in a big way.  Not only has his Jewish identity (such as it is) been trumpeted around the world, but now, he seems to think it entitles him to pressure Israel publicly to do the "Jewish" thing and trade him military arms to fight Russia while accepting in return any number of non-Jewish Ukrainians fleeing the mayhem.  He even called for Bennett to set up a mediation for peace in Jerusalem! [See further: Zelenskyy: “Jews Around The World Must Protest Against Russia”]

Yesterday, the whole world seemed to erupt over the Russian 'atrocity' of bombing a Holocaust memorial.  The "Jewish" President of Ukraine hysterically declared that the victims were being murdered all over again.  And, of course, all the Jewish organizations had to weigh in.  But, guess what?  IT NEVER HAPPENED!!  An Israeli journalist on site has confirmed that the memorial remains intact and untouched, but no retractions are in evidence in any other media!

Then, there is the way the US has publicly pressured us to take their side against Russia and to demand that we vote their way at the UN - not once, but twice!  And then publicly praise us, not just for our cooperation, but apparently for going above and beyond what was required and encouraging others to follow suit - not that I believe for a moment that such was the case!

  

I'm not even going to get into the issue of the Jewish Oligarchs - criminals all - and their part in all this.  Just what the world needs to know right now, how many millions of the public's money has been stolen and transferred to Jewish interests:  "Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their donations come under threat of Western sanctions amid Ukraine war."

I fear we are being set up for something; therefore, I urge my fellow Jews everywhere to be prepared.  Increase Torah, mitzvot, tzedakah and acts of chesed.  Do real teshuvah! And pray!!

~ CHODESH TOV L'KULAM ~

And May All Their Schemes Against Us 

Return Upon Their Own Heads 

As in Purim Past

If you missed this earlier among the mass of war news, here is the latest timely shiur from Rabbi Richter...

Eisav - East and West

30 Adar Aleph 5782

Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet

People like to think of the USA as a wholly unique entity - like its Statue of Liberty - standing alone, apart (and above it all), a beacon of freedom.  Instead, it is simply the outgrowth of colonial Europe, the new home base for the British Empire and Nazi ideology - the "Western" side of Eisav.  They share all the same "values." 

On the other hand, there is Russia - the "Eastern" side of Eisav - which has "values" more compatible with Yishmael.  (This is where the contract between Eisav and Yishmael is made.)  Even among the godless, they are divided into godless communism vs. godless humanism - East and West.  But since Christianity is the religion of Eisav, what is of interest to me today is the schism between Western and Eastern Christianity as represented in the US/EU - Russia divide.

Jul 16, 1054 CE: Great Schism

On July 16, 1054, Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius was excommunicated from the Christian church based in Rome, Italy. Cerularius’s excommunication was a breaking point in long-rising tensions between the Roman church based in Rome and the Byzantine church based in Constantinople (now called Istanbul). The resulting split divided the European Christian church into two major branches: the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. This split is known as the Great Schism, or sometimes the “East-West Schism” or the “Schism of 1054.”

The Great Schism came about due to a complex mix of religious disagreements and political conflicts. One of the many religious disagreements between the western (Roman) and eastern (Byzantine) branches of the church had to do with whether or not it was acceptable to use unleavened bread for the sacrament of communion. (The west supported the practice, while the east did not.) Other objects of religious dispute include the exact wording of the Nicene Creed and the Western belief that clerics should remain celibate.

These religious disagreements were made worse by a variety of political conflicts, particularly regarding the power of Rome. Rome believed that the pope—the religious leader of the western church—should have authority over the patriarch—the religious authority of the eastern church. Constantinople disagreed. Each church recognized their own leaders, and when the western church eventually excommunicated Michael Cerularius and the entire eastern church. The eastern church retaliated by excommunicating the Roman pope Leo III and the Roman church with him.

...Today, the two branches of Christianity remain distinct expressions of a similar faith. Roman Catholicism is the single largest Christian denomination, with more than a billion followers around the world. Eastern Orthodoxy is the second-largest Christian denomination, with more than 260 million followers. Eastern Orthodoxy includes national churches, such as the Greek Orthodox Church and Russian Orthodox Church.

However, if Ukraine was to become more Western oriented, its church had to reflect that new reality, too.  Hence...

Russian Orthodox church splits with Orthodoxy's leader in seismic rift over Ukraine

Russian Orthodox Church leaders have announced that the church is severing relations with the historical seat of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, opening a major rift in the global Orthodox Church.

At a synod in Belarus on Monday, Russian Orthodox Church leaders said the church was cutting ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the seat of the global spiritual leader for 300 million Orthodox worshippers.

The rupture is a response by the Russian Church to the Constantinople Patriarchate’s decision last week to allow Ukraine to establish an independent church, one no longer under the authority of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Now, this brings us to Putin's role in all this, because religion is very much a part of what is driving current events. Vladiir Putin, President of Russia is actually a very religious man.

Putin’s spiritual destiny

Threatened by an uprising of his treacherous generals, the Christian Emperor Basil II, based in the glorious city of Byzantium, reached out to his enemies, the pagans over in the land of the Rus. Basil II was a clever deal maker. If Vladimir of the Rus would help him put down the revolt, he would give him the hand of his sister in marriage. This was a status changer for Vladimir: the marriage of a pagan to an imperial princess was unprecedented. But first Vladimir would have to convert to Christianity.

Returning to Kyev in triumph, Vladimir proceeded to summon the whole city to the banks of the river Dnieper for a mass baptism. The year is 988. This is the founding, iconic act of Russian Orthodox Christianity. It was from here that Christianity would spread out and merge with the Russian love of the motherland, to create a powerful brew of nationalism and spirituality. In the mythology of 988, it was as if the whole of the Russian people had been baptised. Vladimir was declared a saint. When the Byzantine empire fell, the Russians saw themselves as its natural successor. They were a “third Rome”.

Soviet Communism tried to crush all this — but failed. And in the post-Soviet period, thousands of churches have been built and re-built. Though the West thinks of Christianity as something enfeebled and declining, in the East it is thriving. Back in 2019, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, boasted that they were building three churches a day. Last year, they opened a Cathedral to the Armed Forces an hour outside Moscow. Religious imagery merges with military glorification. War medals are set in stained glass, reminding visitors of Russian martyrdom. In a large mosaic, more recent victories — including 2014’s “the return of Crimea” — are celebrated. “Blessed are the peacemakers” this is not.

At the heart of this post-Soviet revival of Christianity is another Vladimir. Vladimir Putin. Many people don’t appreciate the extent to which the invasion of Ukraine is a spiritual quest for him. The Baptism of Rus is the founding event of the formation of the Russian religious psyche, the Russian Orthodox church traces its origins back here. That’s why Putin is not so much interested in a few Russian-leaning districts to the east of Ukraine. His goal, terrifyingly, is Kyev itself.

He was born in Leningrad — a city that has reclaimed its original saint’s name — to a devout Christian mother and atheist father. His mother baptised him in secret, and he still wears his baptismal cross. Since he became President, Putin has cast himself as the true defender of Christians throughout the world, the leader of the Third Rome. His relentless bombing of ISIS, for example, was cast as the defence of the historic homeland of Christianity. And he will typically use faith as a way to knock the West, like he did in this speech in 2013:

“We see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilisation. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual. They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.”

Putin regards his spiritual destiny as the rebuilding of Christendom, based in Moscow. When the punk band Pussy Riot wanted to demonstrate against the President, they chose to do so in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, a vast white and gold edifice, demolished by the Soviets and rebuilt in the Nineties. It is a synthesis of Russia’s national and spiritual aspirations. It’s not just Russia, it is “Holy Russia”, part religious project, part extension of Russian foreign policy. Speaking of Vladimir’s mass baptism, Putin explained: “His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilisation and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.” He wants to do the same again. And to do this he needs Kyev back.

“The spiritual choice made by St Vladimir still largely determines our affinity today” Putin wrote only last year. “In the words of Oleg the Prophet about Kyev, “let it be the mother of all Russian cities”.

..Last year, on the anniversary of the baptism of the Rus, Kirill preached to his people, urging them to stay true to Vladimir’s conversion and the blood of the orthodox martyrs. He told them to love “our homeland, our people, our rulers and our army”.

The Western secular imagination doesn’t get this. It looks at Putin’s speech the other evening, and it describes him as mad — which is another way of saying we do not understand what is going on. And we show how little we understand by thinking that a bunch of sanctions is going to make a blind bit of difference. They won’t. “Ukraine is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space” Putin said. That’s what this is all about, “spiritual space” — a terrifying phrase steeped in over a thousand years of Russian religious history.

While the Western "Catholic" Church is forgiving pedophilia and homosexuality, the Eastern "Orthodox" Church is forbidding gay marriage, pride parades, transgenderism, and surprisingly, missionary activity "outside of the church."  Clearly, the West has much more to gain by isolating Russia and destroying Putin's credibility than just a "free" Ukraine.  The entire NWO agenda is at stake here!

Let me tell you why this matters.  Today, a weakened West is more self-destructive, but the strengthening East is becoming more of an existential threat to us.  The Eisavian East is morally superior to the Eisavian West and when HKB"H decides whether "GOG" will be the President of the US or the President of Russia, He will choose the most "worthy" opponent for Yisrael.  That does not bode well for the USA/EU coalition aka the NWO.  They will be the first of our enemies to fall.

U.S. says China and Russia seek 'profoundly illiberal' world order

...Referring to an upgraded "no limits" partnership that China and Russia announced this month in which they pledged to collaborate more against the United States and the West, [U.S. State Department spokesman Ned] Price said the direction of the development of China-Russia relations was of "great concern."

"We think that Russia and the PRC also want a world order," he said. "But this is an order that is and would be profoundly illiberal, an order that stands in contrast to the system that countries around the world ... have built in the last seven decades.

Eisav and Yishmael's interests will align at the End of Days.  In the East, Eisav and Yishmael come together.  But, what would be Putin's interest in Israel?  Again, the clash of East and West - the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church are battling for supremacy in Jerusalem.

Russian Orthodox Church in Israel

1840s up to Russian Revolution

While the first Russian Orthodox archimandrite arrived in Palestine in 1844, Russia's focus on the area began when Napoleon III took over control of France in an 1851 coup d'état and moved to seize control of properties in the Holy Land held by members of the Greek Orthodox Church (GOC). The court of the Czar had long held itself to be the main patron and protector of Orthodoxy, especially after most of the membership of the Greek Orthodox Church from 1460 until 1821 fell under the control of the Islamic Ottoman Empire.... Through diplomacy and a show of force Napoleon III forced the Ottoman Empire to recognize France as the "sovereign authority" in the Holy Land. This moved control of many Christian holy sites and buildings out of Orthodox hands and under Catholicism. These events were one of the main triggers for the Crimean War of 1856. Despite defeat in the war by 1856, Russia continued actively pursuing its interests vis-à-vis the position and influence of the Ottoman Empire and its European allies. Czar Alexander II continually worked to make sure Russia would have a presence in Palestine. Towards these ends a consulate was created in 1858.

By 1860 the Russian Palestine Society was founded. The society guided pilgrims to the Holy Land and bought property in Jerusalem and Nazareth. In addition it ran a theological seminary that also focused on teaching politics.[3] The Russian Palestine Society built hospices for Russian pilgrims and churches (where the liturgy was in Slavonic) all over the country "to the great annoyance of the Greek patriarchal element."[1] The ROC soon attracted more Arab Christians as it championed the idea that local Arab clergy should be promoted to bishops and hierarchs instead of having clergy from Greece imported and put in authority over them.[1] Also in the 1860s the Russians began building an extensive group of buildings outside the city of Jerusalem on Jaffa road, known as the Russian Compound.

These consisted of a large and elaborate church where the Russian archimandrite officiated, massive hostels for the pilgrims, a hospital and several other buildings capable of housing 1000 pilgrims, all within walking distance of the Russian consulate headquarters at the time. The ROC also built an ornate church at Gethsemane, and another at the site where their tradition holds that Jesus made his Ascension at the Mount of Olives. Another Russian hospice was built in the Muristan, along with an asylum for the insane, and schools. Russian pilgrimages were not only encouraged, but even subsidized by the Czar's government. At the time both Russia's political enemies and many within the GOC saw these projects as an intrigue of the Czar to make himself "a center of the Greek faith [i.e. Orthodoxy] which should rival Rome itself." This would all change with the fall of the Russian monarchy.

After the Russian Revolution

With the rise of the communists most of the church properties in Palestine remained in the hands of those at odds with the Bolsheviks, and the majority of these joined with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). Some properties of the ROC remained completely closed until 1941, when the Politburo ordered the churches reopened. An invitation was extended by the Soviets for all Orthodox prelates in the Middle East to come to Moscow to witness the installation of Patriarch Alexei I.

After Israeli Independence

When Israel became a state in 1948, all of the property under the control of the ROCOR within its borders was handed over to the Soviet dominated ROC in appreciation for Moscow's support of the Jewish state (this support was short-lived). The ROCOR maintained control over churches and properties in the Jordanian-ruled West Bank unmolested until the late 1980s.

In 1952 the Soviets reopened the Russian Palestine Society under the direction of Communist Party agents from Moscow, replaced Archimandrite Vladimir with communist trained Ignaty Polikarp, and won over many Christian Arabs with communist sympathies to the ROC. The members of other branches of Orthodoxy refused to associate with the Soviet led ROC in Palestine.

Russia to get disputed J'lem property

The government plans to transfer ownership of the land on which the capital's St. Sergius Church stands to Russia in the coming weeks, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. The issue, which has been under negotiation since then-Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed the site in Jerusalem's Russian Compound and others nearby as property of the Russian Orthodox Church four years ago, is extremely delicate as Israel is concerned over the precedent that might be set for other churches' properties in the capital.

...Negotiations continue over the handover of a second property that is already listed as Russian-owned and houses the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, Margalit said. The decision to transfer ownership of the St. Sergius site comes after a Jerusalem court approved transferring ownership of the property from the Custodian General to the government, the last legal move required ahead of the transfer to the Russians, officials said. A few more properties are reportedly being claimed by Russia as well.

Putin’s Religious Soft Power Hits Jerusalem

In January 2020, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin struck a deal that rescued Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar from a Russian prison and brought her safely home in exchange for Russian sovereignty over the Alexander Courtyard in Jerusalem, which is near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This deal was a major win for Vladimir Putin as he pursues his aim of Russian global imperialism.

Since 2000, Putin has worked hard to return Russia to the status of global superpower, and the Russian Orthodox Church has been a cardinal component of this plan. Putin’s object is not only to preserve Russian culture but to turn it into a dominant force in the Middle East.

...The dispute over the Alexander Courtyard began in 1917. In May 1948, the Soviet Union appointed a “Russian Property Affairs Commissioner” who “did everything possible to transfer this property [the Alexander Courtyard] to the Soviet Union.” This was desired not only because the Russian Orthodox Church wanted the property, but because it had value in terms of foreign policy and national security.

Putin has dramatically upgraded the status of the Russian Orthodox Church during his tenure as national leader. In almost every major speech, he has made sure not only to mention the Church but to support its faith narratives. Powerful pro-Putin oligarchs have sponsored the Church and funded Church charities he has touted. He has regularly used the language of the Church and quoted from the Russian Christian bible, sometimes even using it to justify his foreign policy steps. He has used such language to hold onto the hearts and minds of pro-Russian Ukrainians, for instance.

Now you should understand why I say we can't pick a side as BOTH "world orders" are "bad for the Jews." That's why HKB"H is sending our righteous redeemer to deliver us!

The "V'Nahafoch Hu" this Purim may very well see the US/EU turned on its head and Russia in ascendance instead.  Hashem yerachem and save us from all of our enemies - both East and West!

The World of Lies on Steroids

29 Adar Aleph 5782

Yom Kippur Katan

The lies that abound in this World of Lies have never been more bold, yet so obvious, and at the same time, so cherished.  Our governments and media were always lying to us, but so very few citizens were aware of it.  That is changing, thank God.  On the other hand, those who continue to trust the 'experts' and the 'authorities' whom they believe have only our best interests at heart cling more fiercely than ever to the lies they tell and anyone who disagrees or questions the official narrative is an enemy, no, worse - a demon in human form - someone not fit to live in the same world with them.  Their hatred for anyone who varies from the official (acceptable) narrative can be palpable.

It's astonishing and disheartening to see the same old emotional appeals and psychological tricks being rolled out all over again and with the same level of success.  From fake pandemic to scripted war - the manipulation is masterful, and in some cases, even deadly.

Is the censorship now old hat?  Does it no longer bother us that it is impossible to hear Russia's side of anything?  All Russian reporting has been banned from platforms and anyone supporting even their right to be heard is censored from social media.  Today, Western diplomats walked out on the Russian Foreign Minister's speech at the UN!  Isn't the UN supposed to be the place where every nation can be heard?  Wow!

The shameful, one-sided, biased reporting that is being allowed does not tolerate any challenge or opposing view.  Is this consistent with human rights in the marketplace of ideas so lauded by the principles of democracy?  Of course not!  The 1% only pays lip service to the ideals of humanism and democracy because in truth it is they who are demonic, who worship the Satan as their god.  

The only reports the world is allowed to hear is what is coming out from Western sources which is again full of over-the-top fear-mongering - "Putin is going to invade Ukraine and take over all of Europe!"  It's so insane in its demonization of Russia and its white-washing of Ukraine that you just know some agenda has to be at work behind the scenes.  There is no other way to explain it.

I am decidedly NOT taking a side because they are BOTH "bad for the Jews."  This is not our fight, but it IS instructive for when it becomes our fight.  In an effort to shake some sense into the heads of my fellow Jews who have joined in this free-for-all, headlong rush to embrace the lies glorifying Ukraine/Zelensky ("Maccabee" indeed!!  He couldn't be more of a Hellenist!), I'd like to give you something else to think about.  Feel free to investigate further on your own.  The truth hasn't been totally expunged - yet.

In his most recent speech, Putin said, in part, that he wants to "de-Nazify" Ukraine and the West made a joke out of it. "Ukraine has a Jewish president for goodness sake - they can't be Nazis!"  Oh, yeah?

Winning ‘hearts’ and PR war, but Ukraine has a “Nazi” problem that NATO and USA do not talk about

...Over the years, neo-Nazism ideology has not only taken root in the Ukrainian conscience but has also gained the Ukrainian government’s imprimatur.

...What the NATO and the United States fail to highlight, either wittingly or unwittingly, is the creeping emergence of the neo-Nazi supporters in Ukraine, who do not baulk at using intimidation and even violence to advance their agendas, and who often do so with the implicit approval of government agencies.

One such neo-Nazi group that enjoys Ukrainian state patronage is the Azov Movement, one of the 30-odd privately-funded “volunteer battalions”, that does much of the frontline fighting with Ukraine’s army against the pro-Russian separatists in the country’s restive eastern region. The Azov is not just known for their reputation of being ruthless on the battlefield but also for espousing a militant ideology that wreaked havoc in Germany in the second world war.

...Azov Special Operations Department or Azov Battalion, as it is commonly known, is a right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi unit of the National Guard of Ukraine. Formed in 2014 as a volunteer militia during the Odesa clashes, the Azov Battalion was soon incorporated into the National Guard of Ukraine, serving in the state capacity despite having allegiance to and drawing inspiration from the supremacist Nazi beliefs.

In fact, the Azov Battalion is a source of inspiration for white supremacists around the world. At the time of its formation in 2014, Andriy Biletsky, a veteran fascist and the founder of the volunteer group, stated that the mission of the group is to empower Ukraine to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival … against the Semite-led Untermenschen.”

...the United States government is partly to be blamed for the ominous rise of the neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine. Over the years, the cooperation between the Azov Battalion and the American Military has only grown deeper. In 2018, it was reported that Azov Battalion had received teams of American military advisors and high powered US-made weapons. In November 2017, a US military inspection team had also visited the Azov Battalion on the frontlines to deliberate on strengthening cooperation and providing logistical support in their military operations.

Recently, Democrat Senate member in the United States, Bob Menendez, introduced legislation that sought to grant Ukraine $500 million for the purchase of arms and impose what he called “mother of all sanctions” on Russia should it dare to attack. However, what was striking was the absence of any mechanism to oversee if the weapons bought from the US aid would be used by white supremacist organisations like the Azov Battalion. The US legislators had no qualms with the arms they donated to Kyiv going into the hands of anti-semitic outfits like the Azov Battalion so long as they helped them in discouraging Russia from launching an attack into eastern Ukraine.

Another North American country, Canada, is also being accused of fostering neo-Nazis and war criminals in Ukraine. Earlier last year, many Jewish groups raised concerns regarding the involvement of Canadian troops in training neo-Nazis and war criminals from Ukraine. They pointed to a video that highlighted Ukrainian paratroopers singing a song to praise Stepan Bandera, an anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator whose organisation was linked to the murder of more than 100,000 Jews and Poles during the second world war.

A litany of human rights abuses has been listed against Azov and other neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine. Even the United Nations and the Human Rights Watch have accused Azov and similar other groups of committing atrocities in the pursuit of fulfilling their bigoted objectives. They are also known for sympathising with the Nazi collaborators, regularly staging torchlight marches for Nazis who wrecked unspeakable atrocities against Jews during World War II. Many of these neo-Nazis are also Holocaust deniers, alleging that the Holocaust was a construct fabricated by the Jews to keep in check white supremacy.

Several Jewish groups, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, Yad Vashem, and the World Jewish Congress, are among prominent organisations that have condemned Kyiv for rehabilitating Nazi collaborators—a distinct characteristic of the far-right movements in Europe.

And yet, Putin is the one being portrayed in prominent Western media with a Hitler mustache! There have been reports all over Twitter of black, Indian, oriental, and Jewish refugees being harassed, denied transport and even being shot and killed while trying to flee the country, very likely by these same Ukrainian Nazis!! 

Ukraine’s Ultra-Nationalist Azov Battalion Pledges to Fight to the Last Man Against Advancing Russian Forces in Mariupol

...there are certainly some Ukrainian territorial defence groups who are overtly and unabashedly hard-right in their ideological orientation. Militarily, forces like the infamous Azov Battalion have been active in southeastern Ukraine, though not exclusively.

These actors have developed media apparatuses to recruit, raise funds, and build international support amongst ideological sympathizers. In recent months, during Russia’s massive military buildup and in the period since the invasion began, said elements have intensified their media warfare against Russia, posting propaganda to build morale amongst its rank and file as well as its supporters around the country, and putting out funding requests for weapons and supplies to fight the Russians.

The ultra-nationalist militants are accused of war crimes (Moscow uses “genocide”) against Russian-speaking people in contested breakaway areas, allegedly committing torture, shelling of civilians, and other atrocities.

The Azov Battalion is a hard-right formation that was formally established during the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and incorporated into Ukraine’s National Guard. The broader movement and media network is spread throughout parts of the country, and one of their operational hotspots is Mariupol, a city on the north coast of the Azov Sea.

As Russia was increasing its troop buildup prior to the invasion, Azov Battalion posted propaganda materials showing their fighters training and planning for the coming escalation. Then, when Vladimir Putin issued his official declaration of war, the militia switched gears and quickly began to make their final war preparations in anticipation of advancing Russian forces.

Far-right militias in Europe plan to confront Russian forces, a research group says.

The Russian attack on Ukraine has prompted a flurry of activity among far-right European militia leaders, who have taken to the internet to raise funds, recruit fighters and plan travel to the front lines to confront the country’s invaders, according to a research group.

In recent days, militia leaders in France, Finland and Ukraine have posted declarations urging their supporters to join in the fight to defend Ukraine against a Russian invasion. The posts have been located and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, a private organization that specializes in tracking extremist groups.

Rita Katz, the director of SITE, said that numerous far-right white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups throughout Europe and North America had expressed an outpouring of support for Ukraine, including by seeking to join paramilitary units in battling Russia.

The motivation to travel to Ukraine, she said, was to gain combat training. It was also ideologically-driven, she added, since these far right groups viewed the fight against Russia as a fight against communism, clinging to World War II historical narratives, and associating modern-day Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin, with the former Soviet Union.

“Instability in Ukraine offers white supremacy extremists the same training opportunities that instability in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria has offered jihadist militants for years,” said Ali Soufan, who heads The Soufan Group, which has been documenting for several years how the conflict in eastern Ukraine has emerged as an international hub of white supremacy.

(JTA): Report: Ukraine had more anti-Semitic incidents than all former Soviet countries combined

MOSCOW (JTA) — In its main annual report on anti-Semitism, Israel’s government singled out Ukraine as unusual in Eastern Europe for the alleged increase in attacks there, triggering protest by Kiev.

The allegation appeared in the anti-Semitism report for 2017 that the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs under Education Minister Naftali Bennett published last week, ahead of the Jan. 27 International Day of Holocaust Remembrance.

“A striking exception in the trend of decrease in anti-Semitic incidents in Eastern Europe was Ukraine, where the number of recorded anti-Semitic attacks was doubled from last year and surpassed the tally for all the incidents reported throughout the entire region combined,” the report said.

The report did not name the total number of incidents reported but a ministry spokesperson queried by JTA said that throughout 2017, more than 130 incidents of anti-Semitism had been reported, including violent assaults, in Ukraine. The data came from Jewish communities and Nativ, an Israeli government agency that used to be part of the intelligence services but today deals exclusively with issues connected to aliyah, or immigration by Jews and their relatives to Israel.

The report also said that 2017 was the second consecutive year that Ukraine had the largest number of anti-Semitic incidents of any other country from the former Soviet Union.

Violent Anti-Semitism Is Gripping Ukraine — And The Government Is Standing Idly By  (May 2018)

A wave of anti-Semitism has swept over Ukraine. In the past three weeks alone, a far-right leader publicly called for cleansing Ukraine of zhidi (a slur equivalent to “kike”); a Holocaust memorial in Ternopil was bombed; hundreds marched through Lviv, in honor of an SS unit, complete with Nazi salutes; “Death to Zhidi” graffiti was scrawled in two cities; a revered rabbi’s tomb was vandalized; a Romani camp in Kiev was attacked and burned by far-right nationalists, and hundreds rocked out at a neo-Nazi concert clad in swastikas and throwing up Nazi salutes.

This outpouring of hatred got the attention of the World Jewish Congress, which put out a short video condemning the surge of anti-Semitism.

Shortly afterward, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko issued a press release affirming his commitment to combating anti-Semitism. In turn, WJC president Ronald Lauder thanked Poroshenko for his statement, which made Lauder feel “gratified.”

But we shouldn’t heave a sigh of relief just yet. Unfortunately, WJC’s willingness to accept Poroshenko’s word is premature. Over the past four years of Poroshenko’s presidency, Ukraine has experienced a steady growth of anti-Semitism, including the glorification of Nazi collaborators, vandalism of Jewish sites and public threats against Jews — and the rate of anti-Semitic incidents appears to be escalating.

Indeed, the day after Poroshenko issued his empty promise, which was so effusively celebrated by Lauder, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry flatly denied the growth of anti-Semitism in Ukraine. How can Poroshenko combat anti-Semitism when his own Foreign Ministry (which he theoretically has control over) refuses to acknowledge the problem?

After the WJC welcomed Poroshenko’s commitment to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred, a Ukrainian mayor was caught spewing vitriol about Jews seeking to kill gentiles; the Ukrainian consul in Hamburg was suspended following allegations of writing anti-Semitic Facebook posts, including blaming the Jews for WWII; the tomb of the daughter of a revered rabbi was defaced for the fifth time in two years; far-right thugs stormed the home of a TV station co-owner; the neo-Nazi C14 gang carried out another Roma pogrom, torching an encampment in L’viv; and ultranationalists affiliated with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion shut down an LGBT event sponsored by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in Kiev while authorities refused to act.

Poroshenko became president following the bloody Maidan uprising of 2013-2014, in which ordinary Ukrainians died for the right to live in a democratic, Western nation. But at best, Poroshenko’s government has ignored the anti-Semitism problem in its midst; at worst, it has actively encouraged it.

The April 28 march in L’viv, during which a thousand people honored SS Galichina, a Ukrainian division in Hitler’s Waffen-SS, was not an isolated event planned by a fringe group. The march was the culmination of a weeklong celebration of SS Galichina promoted by the L’viv city council. Bizarrely enough, this included a contest encouraging teenagers to submit fan artwork of the SS.

How does a European city come to glorify an SS unit whose members took a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler? It helps to have a healthy dose of historical revisionism. Last year, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory — an official department of the Kiev government — declared that SS Galichina fighters were actually “war victims.” This, of course, raises the question: if the SS were victims, what does that make the Jews and other ethnicities they slaughtered?

SS Galichina is far from the only WWII-era paramilitary sanctioned by modern Ukrainian authorities. In 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed laws that proclaimed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis and was responsible for liquidation of thousands of Jews, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which carried out the ethnic cleansing of 70,000-100,000 Poles, as well as other ethnicities on its own accord, to be heroes of Ukraine.

Thanks to Kiev’s laws, as well as public campaigns conducted by the Institute of National Memory (whose 2018 budget is around two million dollars), these butchers are now celebrated across the land.

It should come as no surprise that state-sponsored glorification of anti-Semites is often accompanied by anti-Semitic outbursts. On January 1, 2017, thousands marched through Kiev in honor of OUN leader Stepan Bandera. Chants of “Jews Out!” rang through the crowd, yet the next day, police denied hearing anything anti-Semitic. Last June, L’viv had a three-day festival in honor of UPA leader Roman Shukhevych, and a synagogue was firebombed during the festivities. In November, Radio Free Europe reported seeing Nazi salutes as 20,000 torch-wielding men marched in honor of the UPA.

MAY I REMIND YOU THAT JEWISH LAW REQUIRES THAT BOTH SIDES MUST BE HEARD AND INVESTIGATED BEFORE JUDGMENT CAN BE RENDERED?

THIS WE KNOW, UKRAINE IS NOT LILY-WHITE!  AND REMEMBER THIS...

THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS

NOT TO PLAY THE GAME

"The Great Reset: Purim. Conspiracy Theories?" (Part 1/2)

29 Adar Aleph 5782 
Yom Kippur Katan

The Great Reset: Purim. Conspiracy Theories?

Rav Yehudah Richter (Part 1/2)

 

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE JEWS

28 Adar Aleph 5782

In case we needed reminding - everything is about the Jews.  Whether they want to kill us or assimilate us out of existence, the nations of the world have one common obsession - destroy the Jews.  Of all the plans throughout the ages, the Holocaust was genius.  It's the 'gift' that just keeps giving.

First, it outright murdered 1/3 of world Jewry, but then afterwards, it continued to be used against us in other ways...

• Hitler's definition is the one the Zionist government uses to determine who is a Jew, which allows our nation to be infiltrated and influenced by hordes of non-Jews.
• Our nation is compelled by humanitarian demands to accept refugees from among the nations, since we know what it was to be refugees, further watering down our numbers and our strength.
• When we attempt to fight the Arab enemy, we are called "Nazis," doing to the 'innocent' Arabs what was done to our own innocents.

That's what Lapid is referring to when he talks today about "being on the right side of history."

Israel is clobbered in the self-righteous UN which holds up the mirror of the Holocaust and says to us, "Look what you have become.  Aren't you ashamed?  How could you?"  Already, evil is calling attention to us and drawing equivalency between what Putin is doing in Ukraine and what Israel does in 'Palestine' or in Syria (take your pick).

Everything is about the Jews.  Don't you know that?  If you didn't, here is a reminder...

And what about Israel being dragged into the spotlight with Bennett prevailed upon to arrange peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.  What???!!!!

Since Abraham's legacy fell to the sons of Ya'aqov - Bnei Yisrael - everything, but everything has been about the Jews!!  And so it remains to this day.  Best we not forget that.  We are wed to the Master of the Universe and our loyalty and allegiance is to HIM ALONE!!

If you want to survive all this, you have to stop playing their game - STOP TAKING SIDES - even when it might seem to be the moral thing to do.  We are not called to be philosophers.  We don't decide what is moral and what's not.  We are servants of HKB"H and so we just obey our Torah and mitzvot without questions or calculations.  "He who is merciful to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful."  That's Torah!  That's Judaism!

The nerve of this silly little dancing Erev Rav.  What does he know about being a Jew?!

Says the President of Ukraine whose primary interest is the welfare of the Ukrainian people, not JEWS!!  This is precisely why he was chosen for this part, so his Jewishness, such as it is, could be used as a weapon against us.  Cursed be the day his mother gave birth to him.

I warned people that choosing Trump over Hillary was just an illusion as there really is no choice - they are working for the same people at the top and the end result is the same - not good for the Jews.  The choice between the greater and lesser of two evils is still E-V-I-L!

I warned people about choosing between the pro-vaccines and anti-vaccines camps.  Even though I was against taking the mRNA vaccines, I saw that bringing Jews into the global fight against it alongside the non-Jews was not good - and even possibly dangerous - for the Jews.

Now, here we are yet again with another opportunity presented by the globalists whereby we must choose a side - who is the real 'devil' here - Putin or Zelensky?  Inasmuch as they each represent an aspect of Eisav, we have no basis upon which to align ourselves with either of them.  Israel is a nation that was meant to dwell alone.  The whole world must understand that we have One Ally only - one relationship only - and that is HKB"H!!  

But before the nations can understand that, the Jews must first understand it.  What is it going to take anyway?!  Hashem yerachem!

PLAYING BOTH SIDES

27 Adar Aleph 5782

The globalists' game is to play both sides and keep the 99% believing that one side is good and the opposing side is evil so they can play them off against each other and thereby manipulate people's thoughts, emotions, actions and conclusions.  They are doing a bang-up job of it, too.

But, now that the geulah is arriving, the light is spreading and it is getting harder and harder for them to hide in the shadows.  A lot of people are catching on to their schemes.  The most intriguing question to me is do the recruits who end up being 'sacrificed' for the cause (like Hitler, y"sh or Putin, or even Hillary Clinton, etc.), do they know in advance or are they kept in the dark about the real plan and only discover the truth after it's too late.  I tend to think that each side is told the win is in the bag, so that the scenario will play out more realistically.  Then the loser discovers the double-cross.  Putin has been played.  But, will he go quietly when they are done with him?  

Why do the globalists want a world war right now?  At the end of each world war, they make another advance towards world domination.

• World War I   - The League of Nations
• World War II  - The United Nations
• World War III - The UN 2.0

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (and the UN75 Declaration to be adopted by Member States) offers a unique opportunity to rethink how global affairs are managed, as the world recovers from the pandemic and its attendant financial, economic, and social consequences. As world leaders and global civil society together pursue the inextricably linked issues of “reform and recovery,” their interplay can generate political momentum for overhauling global governance on, heretofore, difficult and contested issues and renew a greater sense of shared global responsibility.

...In the midst of a past period of global turmoil— the Second World War, on the heels of the 1930s Great Depression—leaders from the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom gathered, in 1944, at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., to con­sider a new postwar international architecture to succeed the failed League of Nations. Six months later, a gathering of delegates from fifty nations convened in San Francisco to negotiate over two months and then sign, on June 26, the Charter of the United Nations.

This September, world leaders will mark the UN’s seventy-fifth anniversary. On this occa­sion, they will endorse, through the adoption of a Declaration, a renewed vision for collective global action and a set of commitments to re­spond to the pandemic, climate change, extreme poverty, armed conflict, disruptive technologies, and other global challenges. Can UN75 be an in­flexion point like Dumbarton Oaks, and catalyze a broader global conversation toward a new “San Francisco Moment” for a more inclusive, just, and effective global governance system? [See further here and here]

Third time is the charm, right?  A UN with teeth.  A UN that has the power to enforce its will on humanity.  We had a glimpse of the world they envision for the 99% during the worst parts of the COVID plandemic.  The world population has been softened up but there are still too many holdouts.  [Ukraine's vaccination rate is relatively low at 35.7%.]  Their greatest weapon - fear of COVID - has lost its power now, so a new and greater fear must be invoked.  Nuclear war?  Will they go so far as to detonate one (or a few) in order to make the threat real enough?  They might.  Anything is possible as there is no one more insane than a globalist who believes he can fight God and win!  But then again, HKB"H has His own plan.

Rabbi Yitzchak said: "In the year that the Messiah will be revealed, all of the leaders of the nations will provoke each other.

"The king of Persia will provoke the king of Arabia, and the king of Arabia will go to Edom to receive advice from them.

"And the king of Persia will go and destroy the entire world, and all the nations of the world will shake and panic and fall on their faces and feel contractions like those of giving birth, and Israel will shake and panic and ask: 'Where will we go?'

"And (God) will say to them, ‘My children, do not fear, because everything I did, I did for you. Why are you afraid? Don’t be afraid. The time has come for your redemption’.”  (Source of this translation unknown.)

THESE ARE THE MAIN THINGS TO REMEMBER:  

NO FEAR - HKB"H REIGNS - REDEMPTION IS COMING

THE THEATER OF WAR 2022

26 Adar Aleph 5782

Usually, when we refer to the "theater of war"  it is a reference to "the entire land, sea, and air area that is or may become involved directly in war operations."  

In our circumstances, I am referring to the literal theater, i.e. the media.  Today's "theater of war" has become the television, live-streams on the computer or smart phone, and all forms of social media.  And theater it is - everyone is playing his assigned part...

We know this is a 'Great Western' production because you have 'pure goodness' and 'pure evil' faced off against each other.  Woe to anyone who chooses the wrong side!  In truth, however, these two are cut from the same cloth and one of them was literally an actor playing this part before he was elected to office!

People will die and infrastructure will be destroyed.  Refugees will be uprooted and businesses will flounder and fail, but the main characters are all on the same side and they will win either way.  Or so they imagine.

This looks to me like the next phase of the globalists' plan for world domination.  I am beginning to think that the plandemic was just to soften us up.  WW3, if this really is it, will likely be the instrument for the Great Reset - economic enslavement and yet millions more people dead.   Remember, war is big business (and so was the plandemic) and it also brings about global societal changes in record time.  The same group instigated WW1 and WW2.  The fact that it is planned and coordinated by an overlord cabal does not make it any less real to the people at the bottom of the food chain - the cannon fodder.  

We can't possibly determine from what we see in the media coverage what the true situation is, so the only thing that really should matter to Hashem's children is that this is the major indicator of the nearness of Mashiach and the Geulah Shlaimah.  Mashiach is the only one who can defeat the Globalists and at the end of this war - if it really does turn into WW3 (and why shouldn't it, it's clearly part of the plan after all) - there WILL be a whole New World Order, but a world of righteousness without any evil at all.

The Guy's an Actor, He's Reading a Script!