JPOST: Putin OK, beware CIA and Kiev

[Michael K.]

Todays headlines from the Zionist media seem to confirm a sea change in the Jewish state's alliances.

http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Candidly-speaking-Israel-and-Putins-Russia-A-tenuous-relationship-431747#article=6017ODRFMDYyMEJCMTM3NEZDOERBREJFOTNGQ0NFQTk0NjE=

Candidly speaking: Israel and Putin's Russia - A tenuous relationship

By ISI LEIBLER
Sun, 01 Nov 2015, 03:08 PM

For over 30 years, my principal public occupation in the global Jewish arena was to promote the struggle for liberation of Soviet Jewry.

This brought me into direct contact with Soviet ministers, officials and apparatchiks, enabling me to appreciate firsthand the obsessive anti-Semitism underlying the Kremlin's policy toward Israel and the Jews.

This contrasts starkly with current Russian President Vladimir Putin's positive attitude to Jews in general, despite the fact that he was a former officer of the Soviet secret police agency, the KGB, a body notorious for its anti-Semitism. This is even more extraordinary taking into account the fact that Putin today exploits nationalism as a major element to rally public support. And Russian nationalism, from the time of the czars and heavily reinforced by the Soviets, operated in tandem with a feral anti-Semitism.

There are no rational explanations for Putin's extraordinary attitude toward Jews, which some have gone as far as to describe as being motivated by philo-Semitism. Some say he was influenced as a youngster by his Jewish German teacher, Mina Yuditskaya, now living in Israel and whom Putin invited for a social chat to the King David Hotel during his last visit.

He may also be highly sophisticated and pragmatic, and having seen the outcome of Soviet anti-Semitism, may have come to a realization that Jewish support would represent an asset at many levels.

Putin has ruthlessly suppressed violent anti-Semitism. He has gone out of his way to attend Jewish functions, such as the opening of a Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, to which he contributed $50 million of state funds and even symbolically personally donated a month's salary.

He also attended Hanukka celebrations and conveyed warm messages of praise and goodwill to Jews on the advent of the Jewish New Year – utterly unprecedented, especially from a nationalist Russian leader.

It is also astonishing that, despite his strategic involvement and alliance with the Syrians and Iranians, Putin has determinedly kept the channels to Israel open, making a point to personally visit Israel. In fact, in June 2012, Israel was the first country he visited after his election. He frequently speaks warmly about the Jewish state, expressing pride that it contains the largest diaspora of former Russian citizens. At the Western Wall, accompanied by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, he donned a kippa, which undoubtedly made his Bolshevik predecessors turn in their graves. He also seemed quite indifferent to the rage this created among his Arab allies.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has deftly steered a delicate diplomatic course, seeking to retain a good relationship with the Russians without antagonizing the Americans in relation to both Ukraine and Georgia.

No Israeli minister has criticized Putin despite his alliance with Syria and Iran.

Indeed, until recently, Netanyahu managed to persuade Putin to postpone providing the Syrians with the S-300 air defense system, whose deployment would make it far more difficult for Israel to penetrate Syrian airspace in the event of a military confrontation.

However, due to US President Barack Obama's incredible mismanagement, Putin's major geopolitical breakthrough has transformed Russia overnight into a dominant power in the Middle East with greater influence in the region than even at its peak during the Cold War. Even Egypt has been alienated by US support for the Muslim Brotherhood to such an extent that it too has moved closer to the Russian camp.

The US has effectively enabled an economically weak Russia to seal an alliance with the Shi'ites, purportedly to combat Islamic State (IS) but in reality concentrating on rescuing Syrian President Bashar Assad, who, despite massive support from Iran and Hezbollah, was close to collapse.

Putin mocked the Americans for trying to promote "democracy" and in so doing creating the vacuum that was rapidly filled by IS. At the UN General Assembly, Putin, speaking about Western support for the so-called Arab Spring, said, "Do you realize what you have done? ... Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster – and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life."

In contrast to a bumbling Obama, he emerged as a shrewd and tough strategist who can be relied upon to stand by his allies and confront his enemies.

As a consequence, the situation has become immensely more complicated for Israel and there are logical grounds for concern that Russia's ongoing confrontation with the US will override Putin's emotional philo-Semitism. His recent meeting in which he expressed solidarity with Assad in Moscow was hardly reassuring.

But the situation remains far from black and white. Immediately after announcing Russia's intervention, Putin agreed to a three-hour summit meeting with Netanyahu, who flew to Moscow where parameters were drawn up in order to minimize any possible military overlap and try to protect some of Israel's security concerns.

Coordination has been maintained at the very highest military levels between both countries, with Russia operating a direct hotline with Yossi Cohen, Israel's national security adviser, informing him in advance of Russia bombing targets in Syria.

Furthermore, according to Ehud Ya'ari of Channel 2, the Russians have allocated a future role for Israel in their area of influence by offering to buy a substantial chunk of Israel's newly discovered gas fields and provide military guarantees against Hezbollah attacks on the offshore locations. It is also proposing to export this gas to Europe.

But Israel remains the meat in the sandwich. It must walk on eggshells to avoid alienating the US Congress, which is bitterly opposed to Putin's global expansionism.

Some predict that Putin is merely taking advantage of the opportunity to establish Russia as a Mediterranean Great Power. He is most unlikely to involve his ground forces after Russia's ordeal in Afghanistan. Realizing that a complete victory is not in the cards, Putin may secure Assad, settle on a divided Syria and leverage Assad's retirement in return for US concessions such as easing sanctions relating to Ukraine.

Profoundly conscious of the Iranian regime's messianic aspirations to wipe Israel off the face of the planet, optimists consider the possibility that the Russians will inhibit the Iranians from directly attacking Israel. They argue that Shi'ite fundamentalists like the Iranians also pose long-term threats to the Kremlin with Russia's growing and increasingly aggressive Muslim minority which is also being affected by IS – a large proportion of whose fighters originate from Russia and former Soviet countries.

The Netanyahu government is to be commended for its efforts to isolate itself from the conflict. But the situation is volatile and could unravel in the course of intensified superpower confrontations in this region. Israel is also cognizant of potential confrontations with the Russians should they continue to intervene when Iranians seek to transfer advanced missiles to Hezbollah.

However, it is a consolation that all things being even, Putin would prefer not to confront Israel and does not aspire to bring about its destruction, as did the Bolsheviks. However, that could change if Putin were to conclude that Israel represents a major barrier to his objective of creating a new Middle East.

It remains somewhat surrealistic for me to juxtapose Putin's positive attitude with my experiences with Soviet anti-Semites. Neither I nor any of the refuseniks would have remotely dreamed that, living in Israel, we would witness the visit of a former KGB officer as president of Russia who displays friendship rather than malevolence to the Jewish people. We must pray that this will not be swept aside by realpolitik.


IDF warns soldiers: Beware of CIA recruitment

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Sun, 01 Nov 2015, 07:44 AM
Channel 2 reports warning issued to all IDF personnel.

Channel 2 reported Sunday that the information security department, part of the IDF's intelligence force, issued a call to its officers and soldiers to beware of recruitment attempts by the CIA.

The advisory called on soldiers to "be aware and report any unusual incidences."

The warning was issued to all officers and soldiers of the IDF.

Attached to the warning was an article from Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot chronicling a phenomenon circa 2012 in which post-army youngsters, upon arrival in the United States, were taken in for extensive questioning by American authorities in an attempt to recruit their services.

"Every security body fears having its confidential information leaked," an Israeli security source told Channel 2.

It remains unclear why the IDF chose to issue the warning now.



Prominent Ukrainian Jewish politician arrested in security raid

By SAM SOKOL
Sun, 01 Nov 2015, 12:25 PM

A prominent Ukrainian Jewish politician linked to tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of running an organized crime organization.

Hennadiy Korban, who served under Kolomoisky as deputy governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region until earlier this year and currently heads the UKROP political party, was detained during a massive raid by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) that also targeted the Kolomoisky-linked Fund for the Defense of the Country and the office of Kolomoisky confidant and legislator Boris Filatov.

Korban is a member of the board of trustees of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community.

Kolomoisky, who is also closely connected with the community, was removed from his position by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March after the tycoon, along with a force of masked men, bulled his way into the offices of state-owned companies in what was described as a takeover bid.

While authorities were emphatic that the arrest was non-political, Filatov expressed skepticism.

"The security forces came up. They forced open the doors. Korban was standing by the entrance. They grabbed him and took him away without explanation and without presenting any kind of document," he said, according to Ukraine Today television.

Linking the arrest to local elections recently held across the country, Filatov said that it was a form of "political persecution" and Poroshenko was "sending us a signal."

Korban's lawyers termed the arrest a kidnapping and stated that they had minimal information regarding how it came about.

According to the Kyiv Post, Korban stands accused of several politically motivated kidnappings during his time in the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, as well as of embezzling millions of hryvnia from the Fund for the Defense of the Country.

"There is no connection between his arrest and the Jewish community," Eduard Dolinsky of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Jewish Committee told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. "It can only hurt the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community as he was one of the donors."

However, Dolinsky pointed out, there are still several tycoons involved in the community and the financial harm will not likely be great.

"I think his conviction is pure criminal but in this unstable situation we should be very careful that the law enforcement would not be used as a tool against political enemies," he added.

The Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community declined to comment.

[yankeedoodle]

More God-damned fucking jew propaganda bullshit.

Who doesn't know that the fucking jews love themselves?

If you spent some more time, you would find a similar article about Obama, Merkel, and everybody else, and then you would realize that this self-love propaganda bullshit article is just that - self-love propaganda bullshit.

And, do you know what "tenuous" means?  It means wishful thinking on the part of the fucking jews.  Putin is what's known as a "statesman," promoting his country.  If the jews think that he likes them, he's doing a good job.   

[Michael K.]

You wouldn't care to try and prove any of your assertions would you?  I mean, I am not asking you take my word for anything here, why then should I give your unsubstantiated and profanity ridden assertion any serious consideration?