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antisemitism, HamaNazis, Israel v. Hamas, Israel-Hamas War, KGB and Palestinians, MEC, Medieval v. Modern, middle east conflict, RusNazis, Russia and Nazism, Russian Antisemitism
09 Saturday Dec 2023
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antisemitism, HamaNazis, Israel v. Hamas, Israel-Hamas War, KGB and Palestinians, MEC, Medieval v. Modern, middle east conflict, RusNazis, Russia and Nazism, Russian Antisemitism
22 Saturday Apr 2023
Remember who handles the Palestinians.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-698736 (“Close ties with Russia stop Palestinians from taking sides in Ukraine war” by Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2022).
Under the guise of “liberation movements”, Russia’s “caretakers”, like Arafat and Abbas, plunder their own communities. The Palestinians remain both too vulnerable as weak parties before western power and its modern character and consequently too egotistical and proud themselves to believe it. In essence, they have imprisoned themselves in the dogma of “resistance”, and there they keep themselves ideologically, intellectually, financially, and, for the most part, physically trapped and suffocated.
“Bogdanov, Palestinians” serves as a useful starting search string on both the assertion, topic, and theme involving Russia’s power of persuasion in keeping the Palestinians hooked on a liberation theology that has no true foundation in anyone’s reality, not even that of the Palestinian leadership. All Russia has known through the 20th and 21st Centuries has been the horror that comes with the “leadership” of delusional thieves, Stalin to Putin with just a moment of post-Cold War sunlight between.
Related on BackChannels: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/07/26/ftac-palestinian-kgb-the-palestinians-abused-and-plundered-by-their-own/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/11/28/a-short-page-referencing-works-by-or-associated-with-ion-mihai-pacepa/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/ .
For seriously curious, independent, and industrious Palestinians, there’s a lot to unpack, a lot of Muscovian agitprop (intellectual infection) to address, and then only repairs to be done in relation to community-wide financial arrangements, security, and transparency.
For political philosophy in relation to the bullshit Moscow has been selling for decades to dictators, extremists, and useful idiots all along, I would suggest there is no justice but rather a better and happier side to history, and that it is more the true history of the assertion of human dignity, freedom, liberation, inclusion, and security. For Palestinians, it would be better to cross over to the happier side of history–and the future–than remain mired in the darkest and deepest pools of confusion, hate, and resentment.
Byman, Daniel L. “The 1967 War and the birth of International terrorism.” Brookings, May 30, 2017.
CNN. “Yasser Arafat: Palestinian Authority President.” Special Section: Struggle for Peace, 2000.
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12 Wednesday May 2021
No introduction needed this day for this quick opinion —
“Look how the authorities made sure to plunge the country into war and civil conflict. Is it a coincidence? Is it?”
Palestinian agitation, manipulation, and propaganda account for the experiential and intellectual poisoning of the Palestinians en masse. The “Palestinian Narrative” — more or less, “The Jews stole your land and God wants you to win it back” — has never held water, but for a black-and-white thinking rabble born to capitalize on tales of its own abuse, the myth serves for truth and sustained war for peace.
No Israeli politician invited this latest boiling over, and even though all will stump about it differently, the truth is the Palestinians have been lied to and exploited for decades by their own leaders and other powers intent on enriching themselves at Palestinian expense or proving (while getting some loot for doing so) some Islamic, nationalist, or racist point that might be attributed to their theater-of-the-real “heroism”.
From 2019: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191128-hamas-and-russia-the-benefits-of-growing-relations/
The duped Palestinians haven’t yet figured out who is really getting them killed.
Perhaps this time, Israel will make the truth a little more clear for all to examine.
Related on BackChannels — https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/07/29/ftac-antidote-to-what-poisoned-the-palestinians/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2018/02/06/set-palestinian-kgb-and-other-backchannels-observations-related-to-the-middle-east-conflict/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/03/08/bds-cult-modules/ |
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12 Wednesday May 2021
Perhaps nowhere else does the tension between medieval and modern worlds erupt with deadly force so periodically and predictably than in the Middle East Conflict in which the political methods of the feudal world — lies outright; misguidance; misdirection; political suppression; incitements to riot; corruption and exploitation in the “handling” of the main Palestinian population base — come head to head with modern democracy, empiricism, liberalism, and humanism.
This time, perhaps, Israel will go after Hamas intelligence and related “enterprise” leaders as it quells missile fire from Gaza, and given the violence it faces on its own streets, it may not be so fastidious about settling affairs.
From a part of my presence in the conversation on social media —
Palestinian “leadership” would rather see its people battered and impoverished than subject to the economic and political norms of the modern world.
That posture represents feudal-medieval outlooks and relationships, excessive greed and narcissism — the Palestinians are “marks” for Palestinian authorities and thugs — and a complete absence of conscience and empathy but for the purposes of political theater and related blackmail.
FTAC: Antidote to What Poisoned the Palestinians
You want change?
Get to the Palestinian mind with a good dose of honest, high-integrity truth.
Free The Palestinians From Their Own ‘Protectors’!
Recommended search terms: “Hamas, corruption”; “Hamas, political repression”; “corruption, Palestinian Authority”; “political repression, Palestinian Authority”.
“People have been waiting for elections for 15 years, hoping this would be the light at the end of tunnel, especially given the absence of a peace track with Israel,” said Fadi Elsalameen, a Palestinian democracy activist and prominent critic of Abbas, speaking before the announcement. “Closing this window will have severe consequences…I believe it will lead to violence against the Palestinian leadership.”
Estrin, Daniel. “Palestinian Authority Postpones Parliamentary Elections.” NPR, April 29, 2021.
Recommended: “FTAC: Antidote to What Poisoned the Palestinians“; “Set: ‘Palestinian KGB’ and Other BackChannel’s Observations Related to the Middle East Conflict“.
Israel has declared a state of emergency in the central city of Lod after rioting by Israeli Arabs, as conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants intensified.
Cars were set alight and a father and daughter – both Israeli Arabs – died when a rocket from Gaza hit their car.
BBC. “Israel declares emergency in Lod as unrest spread.” May 12, 2021.
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01 Monday Feb 2021
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Khazar Kingdom, Russia, Russian anti-Semitism, Russian history, Turkic Khazar Jews, Turkic Khazar v Arab Muslim War, Varangian v Khazar War
Nazism inflicted history’s most horrendous crimes against Jews. But Germany has by no means been history’s top purveyor of global antisemitism.
That distinction goes to Russia, which spread antisemitism more widely and durably.
Heinze, Eric. “Russia is the global leader in Jew-hate.” The JC. February 24, 2017.
Emphasis added to the above quotation from Eric Heinze’s analysis in The JC.
Rise of Rus
Originally the Khazars were probably allied with various Norse factions who controlled the region around Novgorod. The Rus’ Khaganate, an early Rus polity in northwestern Russia, was probably heavily influenced by the Khazars. The Rus’ regularly travelled through Khazar-held territory to attack territories around the Black and Caspian Seas; in one such raid, the Khagan is said to have given his assent on the condition that the Rus’ give him half of the booty. In addition, the Khazars allowed the Rus to use the trade route along the Volga River. This alliance was apparently fostered by the hostility between the Khazars and Arabs. At a certain point, however, the Khazar connivance to the sacking of the Muslim lands by the Varangians led to a backlash against the Norsemen from the Muslim population of the Khaganate. The Khazar rulers closed the passage down the Volga for the Rus’, sparking a war. In the early 960s, Khazar ruler Joseph wrote to Hasdai ibn Shaprut about the deterioration of Khazar relations with the Rus: “I have to wage war with them, for if I would give them any chance at all they would lay waste the whole land of the Muslims as far as Baghdad.”
The Rus warlords Oleg of Novgorod and Sviatoslav I of Kiev launched several wars against the Khazar khaganate, often with Byzantine connivance. The Schechter Letter relates the story of a campaign against Khazaria by HLGW (Oleg) around 941 (in which Oleg was defeated by the Khazar general Pesakh; this calls into question the timeline of the Primary Chronicle and other related works on the history of the Eastern Slavs.
Sviatoslav finally succeeded in destroying Khazar imperial power in the 960s. The Khazar fortresses of Sarkel and Tamatarkha fell to the Rus in 965, with the capital city of Atil following circa 967 or 969. A visitor to Atil wrote soon after the sacking of the city: “The Rus attacked, and no grape or raisin remained, not a leaf on a branch.”
“Khazars”. Wikispeedia.
The Roman Empire had never been Europe’s only organizing power.
The Germanic tribes, the Norse, the Mongols, and many others had been crossing that landscape for political community, trade, and war for centuries. However, it appears to have been the Varangians — descendants of the Vikings — who corrupted the Turkic Jewish Khazar, and when the protective kingdom thought better of looting some of its own villages (Muslim) in concert with the Varangians (and sharing the loot), the Varangians made war on the Khazar and destroyed the kingdom. Legends about that warfare — and the Jews — MAY have floated across northern, central, and eastern Europe for generations. Combined with Christian supersessionary ambitions for subscription and the elimination of Judaism as a contemporary religion, the seeds for Russian (and Greek Orthodox) anti-Semitism may have flourished.
Encyclopedia Britannica. “Khazar People”.
When asked about admitting Jews into the Empire, Peter the Great stated “I prefer to see in our midst nations professing Mohammedanism and paganism rather than Jews. They are rogues and cheats. It is my endeavor to eradicate evil, not to multiply it.”
Wikipedia. “Antisemitism in the Russian Empire”.
From time to time, cogent reference crosses my desktop, and I may add the same to reference.
Motyl, Alexander J. “Why Russophobia Has Become a Moral Obligation.” The Messenger, June 19, 2023.
Link rot appears to have masked off references in the main body of this post. It looks like I’ll be building this fill-and-correct section for a short while. Note: I’ve removed out-of-service URLs, so this page and post now serves as a portal the Jewish presence in Byzantine Era Ukraine, the availability of Judaism as a choice for the Turkic Khazar tribes in their drive for independence and security against Constantinople, Mecca, and Rome. If Kyiv were not at the time Jewish, it had certainly the influence and presence of the Jews and Judaism within it. The period in history: approximately 6th to 10th Centuries.
The McGill University “Wikispedia” article “Khazars” has shown up on a mirror at this address: http://mirror2.polsri.ac.id/wiki/wp/k/Khazars.htm . Whether the “memory hole” was created by politics or technology remains to be found out (and I so don’t wish to pursue the matter down the proverbial rabbit hole), but as of the evening of this addendum’s date, it’s available online.
Related online->
ADL. “Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Abound Around Russian Assault on Ukraine.” March 9, 2022.
American Jewish Committee. “Khazars”.
Brook, Kevin Alan. “The Jews of Khazaria.” Northvale, New Jersey, 2003.
Brook, Kevin Alan. “The Khazar Fortress of Sarkel.” Last updated June 22, 2022.
The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. “Khazaria”.
The Turkic Khazar tribes and their protectorate have been framed as colonialists in Israel and wholly without relationship to “real Jews” as well as being denied historic existence by being dismissed as mythical. The first and antisemitic position belies the question of how the Khazar came to identify with Judaism sufficiently to call themselves Jews. For that, there must have already been Jews within the region they came to control. The dismissal as myth begs the origin of names, “Khazar” itself and “Jewish names” like Kagan. Here’s another video on the matter:
HUJI. “Shaul Stampfer: Khazar Myth and Jews of Eastern Europe.” YouTube Video, May 31, 2022. Note: According to the McGill Wikispedia entry, neither the Vikings nor the Varangians organized the region associated with the Khazar between the 6th and 10th Centuries.
If swayed by the dismissive simplicity of the above explanation, feel welcome to revisit the matter and have a look at the coin of the realm:
Mayim Achronim (blog). “The Surprising Story of Russia, Ukraine, and the Jews.” March 9, 2022.
For independent research, start with the “Schechter Letter” and “Khazar Coinage”. For another launch from this page:
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In the 830s, coins were minted in Khazaria bearing the Arabic text “There is no God but Allah, and Musa (Moses) is His messenger.” These coins can be seen as evidence that the Khazars—or some of them—had converted to Judaism. However, we should recall, that the first Polish coins, from the time of Mieszko I had Jewish references, too—they had Mieszko Krul Polski written in Hebrew characters. Still, these Polish coins tell nothing about the religious adherence of Mieszko or Polish peasantry or gentry. The same can be true for the Khazar coins with a Jewish-like text—in both cases, the coins were minted by Jews for their purposes, and that’s all we know.
Shapira, Dan. “So, Who Were the Khazars.” Tablet, January 29, 2021.
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While Dan Shapira dismisses Khazar Jewish identification as impossible to confirm on a racial basis, there being no genetic material from the past with which to compare with some present sample, one may remind that Judaism is an idea shared with a religious cohort that spans language cultures and races worldwide. In the near past, the 20th Century, Germany and Russia could boast the presence of millions of Jews worthy of defaming, corralling, harassing, herding, and murdering in similar numbers.
The Jews have been referred to as “a people apart” (and there is today a title, Vital, David. A People Apart: A Political History of the Jews in Europe 1789-1939. Oxford University Press, 2001) and perhaps the Jewish Diaspora of the Byzantine Era simply lived with power amicable or terrorizing by turns.
Judging by today’s Jews, however, I believe the Jewish communities and families of the Byzantine would have wielded an influence on Power in the region similar to today’s myriad halls of state, and that would make the same a rival to other power bent on expansion or greater and perhaps unquestionable authority. Perhaps the Khazar were lucky to have them aboard for so long.
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27 Wednesday Jan 2021
Posted 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, Anti-Semitism
inDuring Joe Biden’s presidential confirmation, the entire free world watched in horror and fear at the onslaught of incited crowds on the sanctuaries of American democracy – the Senate and House of Representatives. But for those of us who noticed Israeli flags hoisted alongside the neo-Nazi shirts, the experience was even more shocking.
For anyone for whom Zionism and humanism are important, especially those who remember the trauma of the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism, it is hard to think of a more disturbing connection than the one we witnessed that night.
Tamir, Nadav. “New antisemitism hates Jews, loves Israel – opinion.” The Jerusalem Post, January 20, 2021.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by urging people to keep a close watch on ideological extremism, because “these things can happen again”.Slideshow ( 3 images )
Pullella, Philip. “On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope warns against new nationalism.” Reuters, January 27, 2021.
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10 Thursday Dec 2020
Get the picture?
The portent is chilling.
Related online: Shafran, Rabbi Avi. “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t Ilhan Omar or Rashida Talib — especially on Israel and anti-Semitism.” JTA, March 14, 2019.
“AOC” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — arrives online so filtered and slanted by a media process more abundant with opinion than primary data that I just don’t wish to take so many presentations at face value. Conservatives in general and self-branded conservative Jews tend to demonize her in ways long on accusation and short on substantial material.
With regard to the image at the top of this post, I would like to know exactly when and where AOC held that sign, IF she actually held that sign.
Notice, please, the QAnon promotion of the same AOC image but with different signs providing the message.
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08 Saturday Aug 2020
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America First, American history, BLM Character, Christian Nationalism and American History, Demonizing George Soros
That a certain portion of conservative and reactionary Republicans have chosen to develop and spread lies about George Soros — it’s practically an industry — comes as no surprise. Push-back, however, seems to me comparatively rare. The Political Correctness of the Far White Right immediately demonizes those who would defend the billionaire’s spacious philanthropy on behalf of authentic democracy, freedom, and progress.
The post that follows came about through involvement in one such conversation.
Soros’s funding engages and liberates. Some of the people you hate so much appear to be fashionably “Marxist” but in fact hustling capitalist and modern Americans themselves, but they are leveraging substantial American challenges (involving bigotry) into careers.
The Anti-Defamation League has commented twice in the past two years on the demonizing of George Soros: https://www.adl.org/blog/the-antisemitism-lurking-behind-george-soros-conspiracy-theories & https://www.adl.org/blog/soros-conspiracy-theories-and-the-protests-a-gateway-to-antisemitism.
Sometimes, some features of the “New Nationalism” and its Christian focus may remind many of the mission taken up by Gerald L. K. Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_L.K._Smith) and his own (failed) “America First Party” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party(1943).
BackChannels has come to regard the co-founders of Black Lives Matter as fashionably “Marxist” and perhaps misguided in the ways set by Soviet/Post-Soviet Active Measures — the term “Marxist” has been overplayed as a dog whistle for the nation’s reactionaries — but in fact deeply “capitalist” in their operating behavior as public figures — i.e., making their way — as modern moral entrepreneurs, each uniquely engaged in the address of the more stubborn aspects of America’s issues with class and race.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alicia_garza
https://www.ted.com/speakers/opal_tometi
https://www.ted.com/speakers/patrisse_cullors
With the Trump Administration playing up the term “Antifa”, some easily seduced may come out to play, as it were, and by doing so actually create an organized and visible Antifa movement, but for the most part, such claims have been Big Lies and undeniably fake news, e.g., “FBI did not say teacher is the most common occupation of antifa activists” (Ali Swenson for AP, July 9, 2020).
The Trump Administration lies to Americans — not as yet a still conscionable FBI (please do look up “FBI, Antifa” up to this day (August 8, 2020) and let BackChannels know of any substantiation of claims about either “Antifa” and “Black Lives Matter” as the direct drivers of protester violence.
BBC. “Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?” September 7, 2019.
Epstein, Nadine. “No, Holocaust Survivor George Soros Was NOT a Nazi.” moment, Winter Issue 2019.
Reuters. “Fact check: False claims about George Soros.” September 29, 2020.
Reuters. “Fact check: Photograph shows Nazi bookkeeper, not George Soros.” June 18, 2020.
In an open society, the role of the state is to protect the freedom of the individual; in a closed society, the role of the individual is to serve the rulers of the state. Other issues that concern all humanity – fighting pandemics and climate change, avoiding nuclear war, maintaining global institutions – have had to take a back seat to this systemic struggle.
Soros, George. “The Fight of Our Lives.” Project-Syndicate, May 24, 2022.
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