The Importance of a Jewish Education For Russian Jews and Others

  Nadene Goldfoot                                            

Russian-Jewish rapper sparks diplomatic spat between Israel  and Ukraine

Ukraine’s embassy in Israel filed a formal protest after Russian rapper GeeGun was invited as part of an Israeli Tourism Ministry campaign, saying the Odessa-born artist supports Russia’s war and appears on Kyiv’s sanctions list.  (each country lies and makes out they they are the best, especially Trump!) 

Ukraine’s embassy in Israel filed a formal protest with the Foreign

Ministry after Russian-Jewish rapper GeeGun was invited to Israel as

part of an Israeli Tourism Ministry campaign, calling the move

“immoral and unacceptable.”

He was born in Russia, all right; in Odessa which the Jewish community

founded in 1798. Up to WWI, it controlled 90% of its grain trade and

50% of its shop-keepinag and banking. In the 19th century, Odessa was

a center of Russian-Jewish assimilation with the 1st school for Russian

Jews in 1824; Russian synagogue with choir, 1st Russian Jewish news

paper 1860, people like Bialik, and 1880 was center of haskalah.

After WWI and after 1941's WWII of Nazi occupation, the 180,000 Jews

fled or were slaughtered. 26,000 were massacred on October 23-25,

1941 alone. Jewish population for Odessa province in 1988 was up to

120,000.

Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both banks of the Dnieper River. Jews moved there in waves from 

Khazaria, the Caliphate, and Byzantium between the 9th to 12th

Centuries; then from the 14th-15th cents, and from Poland in the 

16th  to 18th centuries.  Severe massacres happened there 

during the Chmielnicki and Haidamak uprisings in 17th-18th cent.

This was close enough to bring about Zionism.  Pogroms took

place in 19th century-from Galicia and White Russia and in 1905

and 1918-1920.  

Russians encouraged Jew to be educated in agricultural settle-

ment in southern Ukraine from 1804-1859.  By 1897 there were

21 Jewish colonies in Kherson province and 16 in Yekaterinoslaav with 26,326 people.  The Soviet government in 1920s promoted

Jewish settlement in Ukraine using money from American Joint Dis-

tribution Committee in regions of Kalinindorf, Zlatopol, and Stalindorf, a and by 1930 there were 90,000 Jewish farmers there.  In Jan-

uary 1918, a regime of national autonomy was established in the

Ukraine.                                        

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a

 Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has 

served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously 

served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister

 of Russia from 1999 to 2000^[i] and again from 2008 to 2012

 He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 1999.

Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Putin worked as a 

KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank

 of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political 

career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996,

Jewish economy and culture suffered under Soviet Rule.   Half of

Soviet Russia's 3 million Jews lived there before WWII.  Under

Nazi rule  were wiped out by the Germans and Ukrainians from

19411942.  The Jewish population was officially part of 777,126

in 1970 and at 484,129 in 1989.  It grew because people were

born, were familiar with it and could speak the language and no

other.                                             

Now these young people, all of them, need to understand that

Russia has been the aggressive one and Ukraine is defending  

 themselves in this war.  

Preventing Western Integration: Russian President Vladimir 

Putin sought to stop Ukraine's pivot toward the West. He viewed Ukraine's growing alignment with the European Union and

 NATO as a threat to Russia's historical sphere of influence and

 a challenge to his regime. 

Imperial Ambitions: Putin has repeatedly questioned Ukrainian statehood, asserting that Russians and Ukrainians are "one single people". Moscow aims to reclaim territorial control and restore a large Russian sphere of influence.

He's thinking of the days of USSR (The Soviet Union, officially

 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from

1922 until its dissolution in 1991.  We reading teachers said it

stood for undisturbed silent sustained Reading.  Ha ha!  

Ideology and Propaganda: At the onset of the 2022 invasion,

 Putin justified the military action through the false claim that 

the Ukrainian government was a neo-Nazi regime committing genocide against Russian speakers in the Donbas region.

Escalation of the 2014 Conflict: The 2022 full-scale invasion 

was an escalation of a conflict that began in 2014. After mass protests in Ukraine ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia illegally annexed Crimea and backed armed separatists

 in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Arab Nations Urge Hamas to Stop Fighting While France and England Decide To Back Hamas

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

    File photo - New photo of Jordan Royal Family, from L : Prince Hashem (12), Princess Iman (20), King Abdullah II, Queen Rania, Princess Salma (16) and Crown Prince Hussein (22), posing at Royal Palace, in Aman, Jordan

Looks to me like the Arabs have more sense than Europeans. 

• Arab and Muslim countries: For the first time, countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey joined a declaration condemning the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and demanding the group disarm and end its rule in Gaza, according to The Times of Israel.
• If Israel decides, G-d forbid, to appease Hamas, the rest of the world will also be forced to do so in any other conditions they face for the world will know that all you have to do is act like Russia; enter someone's land and fight to the last man, but you are guaranteed to get your way.  Brute force wins.  

 They never have taken in Palestinians but urged them to live in refugee camps.  They have continued with this refugee status since 1948.  The UN has kept them as such by aiding and abetting them to prefer this position over leaving.  They also helped them during Oct 7, 2023 as well in their 3 year of plotting to attack Israel, confessed some questioned.  

                                                      

Israel has always had to be a defender of their tiny state which has gone from the promise of the Palestinian Homeland by the League of Nations and the UN, to quickly becoming 1/10th of that size.  Our soldiers are the Israel Defense Force, defending their people from other's never-ending attacks. 

I just heard England say they expect Israel to stop attacking Hamas in this war, and that is crazy.  It's Hamas who has refused to do so, and they of course started it on October 7, 2023.  Is England's short-term memory that bad?  They must be ready for assisted living. France's reputation of giving into power is well understood;  not surprised with them at all. They have no back-bone.  But England! 

 Remember, In an attempt to appease Nazi Germany, England, under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, initially yielded to Adolf Hitler's demands, most notably by signing the Munich Agreement in 1938, allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. However, this policy of appeasement was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing World War II, and Winston Churchill, a strong critic of appeasement, eventually replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister. Churchill then led Britain through the war, advocating for a more confrontational stance against the Axis powers.  Churchill is no doubt turning over in his grave  with England's appeasing Hamas, when even the Arab countries see that doing so would be wrong.  

Numerous Palestinian refugees live in Arab countries, with UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) reporting 5.9 million registered Palestine refugees eligible for their services in its areas of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. However, their legal status and treatment can vary significantly between countries. 

 What we can take from this is that England would have rather followed  Chamberlain, which France did, and not lose so many of its population.  Go Appeasers!    In England, during World War II, approximately 450,700 people died, including both military and civilian deaths according to The National WWII Museum | New Orleans. This figure includes about 383,600 military deaths and 67,100 civilian deaths, according to UK Parliament. Many civilian deaths were a result of German bombing raids during the Blitz. 

"Black September" refers to a military conflict in 1970 between Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It is also the name of a Palestinian militant organization that emerged from the conflict. The conflict resulted in the expulsion of the PLO from Jordan and its subsequent relocation to Lebanon. 

King Abdullah II of Jordan is married to Queen Rania, who is of Palestinian descent. Her family is originally from Tulkarm and Nablus in Palestine, but she was born and raised in Kuwait. They married in 1993.  Until this happened, Jordan was defending itself.  Black September, also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by chairman Yasser Arafat.

Some Arab countries, notably Jordan, have granted citizenship to a large number of Palestinian refugees. But in others, particularly Lebanon, Human Rights Watch reports that governments have actively resisted the permanent settlement and naturalization of Palestinians, citing concerns about altering the demographic balance or national identity. 

These governments often express support for the Palestinian "right of return" to their original homeland, but their policies can be interpreted by some as aiming to prevent permanent integration in the host countries. Palestinians in these countries often face significant obstacles in obtaining citizenship, residency rights, property ownership, and access to the formal job market and social services, leading to precarious living conditions and limited opportunities. 

Additionally, some Arab states have had complex and sometimes volatile relationships with Palestinian political movements, leading to periods of conflict and contributing to restrictions on Palestinian refugees.