Ukrainian Jews form defense force to combat anti-Semitic attacks

By JTA

Members of Kiev’s recently-established Jewish rapid intervention force Photo: JTA

Ukrainian Jews with combat skills formed a rapid intervention force to stop anti-Semitic attacks.

The force, which was set up in recent weeks, currently is made up of eight men who served in the Ukrainian or Israeli armies or have martial arts skills, the team’s founder, Tzvi Arieli, told JTA Thursday.

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The defenders are armed with baseball bats that an American donor whose family hails from Kiev sent the team, he added. “We are trying to raise funds for bullet-proof vests which would greatly increase safety if the situation escalates,” said Arieli, a Latvia-born former soldier of a special forces unit in the Israel Defense Forces who lives in Ukraine.

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What's Happening in the Ukriaine

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"What's happening in Ukraine is very sad for those people, but it's a civil war that we have no business interfering in," Savage said to his audience, adding:

I know some of you disagree with me.

The fact of the matter, however, is that most people don't care about very much anymore.

They only care about their own survival. In a way, I can't blame them.

When you have an out-of-control government, and when people feel disconnected from their so-called representatives, can anyone fault a man who says he only cares about himself?

At the very most, people care about domestic politics but not what's happening internationally.

The Roman historian Cato the Elder said that the average Roman didn't care what the legions were doing in Germania; they were only interested in "the pebble in the shoe."

In other words, they cared about the price of bread and meat, and the amount of taxes he had to pay.

Even in the age of the Internet, nothing has changed since Roman times.

Visit the Michael Savage website here. 

Crimea/Ukraine crisis - follow the money

Russian forces cross Crimea border to seize gas plant on eve of referendum

Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region should seek annexation by Moscow, a Ukrainian official said. 

Fox News confirmed Russia troops took over a gas plant in the Kherson region, located between Crimea and Russia. 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/15/2-dead-in-ukraine-shootout-reportedly-between-pro-russian-protesters-and/

Follow the money, and read on

16% of Natural Gas Consumed in Europe Flows Through Ukraine

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, IHS EDIN, and International Energy Agency
Note: Representations of international boundaries and names are not authoritative.

Europe, including all EU members plus Turkey, Norway, Switzerland, and the non-EU Balkan states, consumed 18.7 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas in 2013. Russia supplied 30% (5.7 Tcf) of this volume, with a significant amount flowing through Ukraine. EIA estimates that 16% (3.0 Tcf) of the total natural gas consumed in Europe passed through Ukraine's pipeline network, based on data reported by Gazprom and Eastern Bloc Energy.

Two major pipeline systems carry Russian gas through Ukraine to Western Europe—the Bratstvo (Brotherhood) and Soyuz (Union) pipelines. The Bratstvo pipeline is Russia's largest pipeline to Europe. It crosses from Ukraine to Slovakia and splits in two to supply northern and southern European countries. The Soyuz pipeline links Russian pipelines to natural gas networks in Central Asia and supplies additional volumes to central and northern Europe. A third major pipeline through Ukraine (Trans-Balkan) delivers Russian natural gas to the Balkan countries and Turkey.

In the past, as much as 80% of Russian natural gas exports to Europe transited Ukraine. This number has fallen to 50%-60% since the Nord Stream pipeline, a direct link between Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, came online in 2011.

http://theenergycollective.com/todayinenergy/354301/16-natural-gas-consumed-europe-flows-through-ukraine

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/m/money_quotes.html#SspU4LodCuGHeWKd.99

Hilary Clinton compares Putin to Hitler - not heard on Fox or CNN -

You won't hear this clip of Hilary Clinton comparing Vladmir Putin to Adolph Hitler on Fox or CNN, or at any other "conservative" talk shows, but you can find it at the Michael Savage website, with a link here.

http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2014/03/hillary-compares-russian-invasion-to-hitler/

AUDIO: Hear Hillary compare Russian invasion to Hitler

Click here to listen to Hillary Clinton’s remarks

Click here to read a report from the London Daily Mail

So what's the story FOX, CNN, and the rest of "Coservative" Radio? 

Do you want your neighbor's son to die for the Crimean peninsula?@

Welcome to The Michael Savage Newsletter, your daily insider report on all things "Savage." 

In today's issue: Obama is issuing empty threats while John McCain and John Kerry seem to be beating the drums of war.

Dr. Savage asks whether or not we really want to go to war over the Crimean peninsula, comparing American intervention there to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion.

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"John McCain, the neocons and John Kerry have gotten what they wanted," Savage told his audience, noting:

We're on the verge of a possible confrontation not seen since the Bay of Pigs invasion.

The idiots running this country have put themselves in a no-win situation.

They told Russia they have no right to defend their own territorial integrity.

So now what is America going to do?

They can't win.

Would you like your neighbor's son to die for the Crimean peninsula?

I want everyone to pray for peace, because sometimes, if enough people refuse to get hysterical, you can stop something bad from happening.

Let's pray for the children of Ukraine, of Russia, of Venezuela and the world.

Let's pray that the adults running this world don't take us into the Third World War.

Visit the Michael Savage website here. 

#Ukraine nationalists wear "Beat the Yids" t-shirts

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#Ukraine nationalists wear "Beat the Yids" t-shirts, amid fears Ukraine's #Jews will be targeted. @WorldJewishCong pic.twitter.com/bmk7usqQes 4:10 a.m. Tue, Mar 4 Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is an area of Russia long known for its anti-semitism and murder of Jews. I am currently reading a book called "Resistance" which details the Belorussian Jewish Partisans and their flight from the Nazis in the forests of Western Russia. Many of these #Ukraine nationalists are Neo-Nazi thugs reborn in the 21st century.  See  Holocaust Resistance: The Bielski Brothers and the “Otriad”, Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently “formally” annexed, the situation was particularly volatile. The Bielski Partisans During the two year occupation till the Soviet-German war outbreak in1941, the Soviets carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles considered as a potential threat to full annexation of these territories into Soviet Union. Hundred of thousands of Polish officials, officers, soldiers, policemen, teachers, churchmen, landowners, and civilians with their families were sent to Siberian concentration camps. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/BielskiBrothers.html This book on the Jewish resistance in Western Russia is an excellent source of information and historical background on the region and its history.

PUTIN PLAYS CHESS WHILE OBAMA PLAYS MARBLES

By: John Hayward  
3/3/2014 09:34 AM

RESIZE:AAA

House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) summed the Ukraine crisis up perfectly on Fox News Sunday by saying “Putin is playing chess, and I think we’re playing marbles.”  The degree of disconnect between reality on the ground in the Crimean region, and the Obama Administration’s hapless stream of babble and bluster, is amazing.  The message other global leaders and miscreants must be taking from the confrontation is profoundly disturbing.

Rogers relates an old geo-strategic saying: “Russia without the Ukraine is a country.  Russia with the Ukraine is an empire.”  The scary thing is that nobody in the Obama Administration seems familiar with that saying, or much of anything else about the region.  The fallback position for nervous Obama apologists at this point is to snarl at critics, “Well, what do you think he should do, nuke Moscow?”  The point is not that a better President would be on a war footing against the Russian empire, but that a better President might have kept this crisis from bubbling over the way it has, or at least avoided further damage to American diplomatic prestige by fumbling the response so badly.

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/03/03/putin-plays-chess-while-obama-plays-marbles/

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The American state of California is a former Spanish territory.  Consider the situation if Mexicans living in that state agitated and wanted to rejoin Spain.  What would we do?

What is Russia decided that this was somehow in their interests, and decided to intervene, via trade sanctions, diplomatic moves and the like.

What would our response be?

Even a president like Obama would tell them to buzz off and mind their own affairs.

This one is none of our business and we have enough problems at the moment. 

Stay out and stay safe.

Sarah Palin Ukraine prediction of Russia invasion may have come true

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a tax day tea party rally in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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March 2, 2014 -- Sarah Palin may be having a bragging rights moment.

Back in 2008 while running for president, the former Republican governor said then-Senator Barack Obama's reaction to Russia invading Georgia would "encourage" Russia to invade Ukraine next.

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Foreign Policy magazine labeled Palin's prediction as "strange." Palin was happy to highlight her prediction on Facebook Friday after reports that Russian military forces are believed to have moved by air to a Russian base in Ukraine.

She says she anticipated the crisis despite her prediction -- in her words, "being derided as 'an extremely far-fetched scenario.'"She says she anticipated the crisis despite her prediction -- in her words, "being derided as 'an extremely far-fetched scenario.'"

PUTIN CROSSES OBAMA'S PINK LINE

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Let me make sense of what’s happening in Ukraine for you as that country descends into armed chaos, threatening to oust the legitimately elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and place the country in the hands of rebel forces spearheaded by Ukrainian neo-Nazis and Chechen Islamist radicals.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/obamas-ukrainian-pink-line/#2FdkoPBysh9vJ8ie.99

Ukraine Reform shul defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti

The Reform synagogue in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine’s Crimean republic, was vandalized Thursday night as the city saw clashes between thousands of armed pro-Russian protesters and Ukrainian nationalists.

Simferopol’s 150-member Reform congregation, Ner Tamid, is housed in the city’s historic Old Synagogue building, which was returned to the Jewish community after the fall of the Former Soviet Union through Holocaust restitution efforts.

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This area of Western Russia has a long history of Anti-Semitism and Pro-Nazi activity:

see:

Holocaust Resistance:
The Bielski Brothers and the “Otriad”

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Holocaust Resistance: Table of Contents | Photographs | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently “formally” annexed, the situation was particularly volatile.

The Bielski Partisans

During the two year occupation till the Soviet-German war outbreak in1941, the Soviets carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles considered as a potential threat to full annexation of these territories into Soviet Union.

Hundred of thousands of Polish officials, officers, soldiers, policemen, teachers, churchmen, landowners, and civilians with their families were sent to Siberian concentration camps.

Some Jews had welcomed the Soviets as liberators, believing that life under the communists might be preferable to that of the Poles.  However time would soon disprove that theory.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/BielskiBrothers.html

A true story of the Jewish resistance in the forests of Belarus. 

Vandals spray painted anti-Semitic messages on the outside walls of the historic building, Ukraine’s Chief Reform Rabbi Alexander Dukhovny told The Times of Israel on Friday.

Early Friday, Ukraine accused Russia of a “military invasion,” saying that Russian troops had taken up strategic positions in the Crimean peninsula. Later in the day, the chief of Ukraine’s security council seemed to back away from those claims, saying that gunmen had attempted to seize airports in Simferopol and Sevastopol.

Read more: Ukraine Reform shul defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-reform-shul-defaced-by-anti-semitic-graffiti/#ixzz2ukPwnywx
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Fox News Hacked, or just sloppy Webmaster?

Fox News, in their current coverage on the Ukraine crisis features a  post:

Here's what's really going on in Ukraine

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The page you are looking for has either moved or is no longer available, but you may be interested in the content below.

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EU reportedly agrees to impose sanctions on Ukraine as truce falls apart

The European Union reportedly has agreed in an emergency meeting Thursday to impose sanctions against Ukraine after violence flared up again in Kiev, leaving at least 33 people dead.

In other developments:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly is sending an envoy to Ukraine to try to mediate discussions with anti-government protesters – at the request of the country’s president. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the envoy announcement after Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych talked over the phone, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported, according to Reuters.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/20/ukrainian-president-announces-and-protesters-have-agreed-to-truce/

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Even the mighty red (And still drunken) Russian bear breaks down when faced with the potential enemormous financial consequences that santions imposed by the EU and US can bring.

Just never forget who the Russians are and NEVER FORGET their bloddy history.