Geopolitical Focus – November 2023
Geopolitical Focus – November 2023: The Law of the Power in Israel and Ukraine
The issue of Jewish settlements is one of the most contentious between Israel and the Palestinians.
About 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are widely considered illegal under international law, though Israel has always disputed this.
The Palestinians have long called for the removal of all settlements, arguing that their presence on land they claim for a future independent Palestinian state makes it almost impossible to make such a state a reality.
In the shadow of the war in Gaza, violence has also increased in the West Bank. According to the UN, more than 180 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas attacked Israel. Hundreds were driven from their villages. The violence also emanates from radical Jewish settlers, among others. Journalist Gisela Dachs in Tel Aviv on the situation in the West Bank.
So, when Russia invades Ukraine, International Law will be interpreted in favor of the West. However, when Israel does the same, the same sources call it legal, and in both cases, a war was the welcome result to justify it. In both instances, history is completely blended out or distorted to the benefit of the aggressor (provocateur) in the first place. Is the endgame eradication of Palestine and Russia, or Hamas and Putin’s allies? (Note: Condemning the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, yes, but as with Ukraine, is there a story in the buildup?)
Have any of these people ever studied the backgrounds? Are the Jewish people just more successful in integrating into political systems, or do they really integrate or simply build a power structure within?
Of the 2016 and 2020 presidential candidates, many front runners were either married to Jews, had children who were married to Jews, or were Jewish themselves. Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, and Marianne Williamson are Jewish. Michael Bennet's mother is Jewish. Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris are married to Jews. Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism and married the Jewish real estate developer Jared Kushner. Both were active in Trump's administration. Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton married the Jewish investor Marc Mezvinsky, the son of U.S. Representative and felon Edward Mezvinsky. Lastly, all three of Joe Biden's children who lived into adulthood married Jews.
And here are the Jewish people in the current administration. I wonder what makes them all so special, and perhaps George Soros, the most famous Jew fighting for democracy globally—again, what makes them special? Is there another reason to fund the war in Ukraine, besides the Western-owned grain fields? Just asking the questions we all should. The world is more than power.
As of 2012, Ukraine had the fifth-largest Jewish community in Europe and the twelfth-largest in the world, behind South Africa and ahead of Mexico. The majority live in Kyiv (about half),[9] Dnipro, Kharkiv and Odesa.[147] Rabbis Jonathan Markovitch of Kyiv and Shmuel Kaminetsky[148] of Dnipro are considered to be among the most influential foreigners in the country.[149] Opened in October 2012 in Dnipro, the multifunctional Menorah center is among the world's largest Jewish community centers.[150][151]
A growing trend among Israelis is to visit Ukraine on a "roots trip" to learn of Jewish life there.[152] Kyiv is usually mentioned, where it is possible to trace the paths of Sholem Aleichem and Golda Meir; Zhytomyr and Korostyshiv, where one can follow the steps of Haim Nahman Bialik; Berdychiv, where one can trace the life of Mendele Mocher Sforim; Rivne, where one can follow the course of Amos Oz; Buchach – the path of S.Y. Agnon; Drohobych – the place of Maurycy Gottlieb and Bruno Schulz.[152]
If you study The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) you will understand or follow the current world order, especially the hatred he held for Russia. The book is one of the major works of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Brzezinski was prominently critical of the Clinton administration's hesitation to intervene against the Serb forces in the Bosnian war.[89] He also began to speak out against Russia's First Chechen War, forming the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya. Wary of a move toward the reinvigoration of Russian power, Brzezinski negatively viewed the succession of former KGB agent Vladimir Putin after Boris Yeltsin. In this vein, he became one of the foremost advocates of NATO expansion. He wrote in 1998 that "Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire."[90] He later came out in support of the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia during the Kosovo war. Zbigniew harbored a deep hatred of the Soviet Union, something that he was not afraid to voice out time and again. He spoke out against former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s political decisions, including his policy of rollback that he believed may cause Europe to build an alliance with Russia instead of the United States. His stance against Russia came to a forefront during the four years that he served as Carter’s National Advisor. He backed China’s decision to support the inhuman reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia for the single reason of not letting the Vietnamese gain control of the region, since the latter was backed by the Soviet Union. He also rallied behind the sanction of massive military aids for Islamic militants who were battling the Soviet troops trying to invade Afghanistan.
Sometimes, you just wonder if war is always the best choice, or if investing the money for real democratic and economic reasons would be more beneficial. Imagine if all the military bases were educational and economic institutions, especially in Africa and South America, rather than sources of cheap labor.
This idea provides a link to the so-called G-7, or the 'Club of Democracies' as some people call it, united in the fight against war in Ukraine. As the sound of defeat becomes louder, perhaps bankruptcy awaits at least the EU, as the autocrats in Brussels continue to spend money they do not have. Other voices are more clearly pointing to provocation and defeat, as seen in the articles in German.
"The background was that President Putin declared in the fall of 2021 and actually sent a draft treaty that Russia wanted NATO to sign. In it, NATO should promise no further expansion. That's what he sent us. And was a prerequisite for not invading Ukraine. Of course, we didn't sign that." -Stoltenberg
As Ukraine appears to be losing the war, most analysts believe this outcome, differing from the perspective of propagandists.
The stated goal of last summer's long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive was to inflict a major strategic defeat on Russia by cutting through the land corridor to Crimea. But hardly anyone in the military and political establishment of the West with real expertise believed that Kiev would be able to achieve such a result. It would have been strange to expect anything else: throughout the war, the Ukrainians never managed to break through the fortified defenses of the Russian troops.
Some optimists are placing their bets on the
G7, akin to Ukraine winning a war against Russia to fulfill Brzezinski's prophecies.
Here's a look at the world population from 1950 to 2023 and projections for 2050, along with a glance at religion around the world. Take your pick for 2050.
Meanwhile, as US elites dine with President Xi, they are also lamenting Putin as evil.
The apparent aim is to strip Muslims of any adherence to their faith, ethnicity, or independent political views. Detainees’ ability to recapture their freedom depends on persuading their jailers that they are Mandarin-speaking, Islam-free worshipers of Xi and the Communist Party. This brazen endeavor reflects a totalitarian impulse to reengineer people’s thinking until they accept the supremacy of party rule.
Perhaps its not as bad, as we all fight Islam – or Christianity in the West, for the same reasons? So the World gathers at the
COP28 to save the world from climate destruction,
while the Leader of the free World keeps its focus on Wars?
