Instead, Knesset members gave in and agreed to host the Ukrainian leader.
After a few brief polite preliminaries, Zelensky once again appropriated the Holocaust, falsely comparing the German Nazi and Ukranian mass murder of Jews to Putin’s invasion.
In a familiar appropriation, Zelensky declared, “Our people are now scattered around the world. They are looking for security. They are looking for a way to stay in peace. As you once searched.”
From there it got worse.
Zelensky repeated the lie that, “You saw Russian missiles hit Kyiv, Babyn Yar. You know what kind of land it is. More than 100,000 Holocaust victims are buried there. There are ancient Kyiv cemeteries. There is a Jewish cemetery. Russian missiles hit there.”
Russian missiles were aimed at an installation obscenely built over the cemetery.
At that point, the speech turned into a smear campaign.
“What is it? Indifference? Premeditation? Or mediation without choosing a party? I will leave you a choice of answer to this question. And I will note only one thing – indifference kills. Premeditation is often erroneous. And mediation can be between states, not between good and evil.”
That was rich coming from the leader of a state that voted in lockstep with Russia against Israel at the UN, and has deep economic links to Iran.
“One can keep asking why we can’t get weapons from you. Or why Israel has not imposed strong sanctions against Russia. Why it doesn’t put pressure on Russian business,” Zelensky demanded.
One can ask why Ukraine keeps funding Iran.
Zelensky’s speech, which the Knesset was bullied into hosting, was a combination of Holocaust revisionism, emotional blackmail, and a smear campaign.
There’s a pretty clear lesson here.
Zelensky is entitled to tell any lie he likes in the hopes of saving his country, but only idiots would provide a forum for him to attack their country.
give him a break already, he's fighting for the survival of his nation. he is Jewish I think this gives him some permission to talk candidly in Israel, nevertheless he overstepped and whitewashed history to fit current needs but there's no question on which side Israel should be now and it us on Ukraine's side
ReplyDeleteYes, we should provide humanitarian aid to the Ukraine, and try to facilitate a resolution. But Israel's first obligation is to provide for its own defense. And we need to remember who the Ukrainians are, and what their tendencies have proven to be over the past few hundred years (including their votes against Israel in the UN.).
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Zelensky is of Jewish descent is a red herring here; he is no more helpful to Israel than Ronnie Kasrils is.
Zelensky "tsheppet" with the Russian Bear.
ReplyDeleteSo he got the war he wanted.
Now this egocentric maniac, insted of apologizing andretreat, wants to shlepp the US and NATO into a confrontation with Putin and igniting a WWIII.
This two faced fellow married his Shiksa in a church and had his kids baptized. But when es "toig" him, he plays the Jewish card.
This liar tells the Knesset how the history of the 2 nations are intertwined.
You bet they are: The cursed Ukrainians butcherd us and we were butchered by them.
Not "stam azoi", but to the tune of 1 1/2 Million Jews killed in the years 1940 and 1941, before the Nazis even dreamed up Auschwitz and the final solution. The Germans were so disgusted by the cruelty of the killing that they could not even watch the Ukrainian doing their dirty work.
Now they beg for mercy.
Karma is for sure a bitch, but Zelensky is the war criminal here.
He wants to drag all countries into this conflict to ח"ו become WW3
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