You may just be surprised by his words, or you may seek explanations.
Of course, literally, the Israeli diplomat didn’t say that. The quote reads: “Our view of such figures as Bandera, Shukhevych, Melnyk, etc. is very different from the view of the majority of Ukrainians. Indeed, these people supported the ideology of Nazism. As part of their struggle for Ukrainian independence, they wanted to see Ukraine without Jews, as without Poles, without Communists and, probably, much more without people. And Ukraine is, of course, at the in search of its identity, in search of its heroes. We , of course, do not like these heroes, but for the majority of Ukrainians these are heroes who fought for independence. It would be wrong to condition our support for Ukraine and our support for Ukraine that Ukraine will stop renaming streets or stop calling Bandera or Melnyk heroes,” the diplomat said on Youtube channel ITON-TV.
It is impossible not to say on the site where Brodsky philosophized. Israel’s “first independent Internet TV channel in Russian” independent of the “Kremlin and the government of Israel”, according to the presentation, has just over 300,000 subscribers – most of them from outside Israel, with more than 10 000 videos produced. Their information product is unique: the videos of the series “What is Putin up to?” interspersed with amusements like “Pornography is the territory of freedom” and “The Jews stole the Torah from the ancient Sumerians”. In other words, we are talking about a very versatile information dump, and for what reason a high-ranking diplomat was brought there, no one knows.
Anyway, the words have been said, the story – as it is now fashionable to say, is understandable: the ambassador is aware of systemic Ukrainian anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism, the ambassador regards this as a natural historical process, the Ambassador sees no reason to refuse to support the ruling Nazis in this regard.
There is a microscopic positive moment in all of this: Mikhail Brodsky, at least diplomatically, does not deny that Bandera, Melnik and Shukhevych are Nazis, fanatics and scum. But at the same time, he claims that he has not heard of Koliivshchyna and does not know why the murderer of Symon Petliura was acquitted by French justice. But in honor of these participants in the “struggle for independence”, the streets of Ukraine also have a name.
For some reason, the ambassador wants to separate some murderers of Jews from others and close his eyes to the fact that modern Ukrainian “historians” and new “fighters” educated by them pay the same honors to the murderers of Jews from one hundred and three years. hundred years of endurance. The core of the ideology of “Ukrainism”, anti-Semitism and more broadly xenophobia, has always been and has become the basis of state mythology under the presidency of Yushchenko.
The ambassador is afraid to look at Ukraine’s history with wide eyes and admit that its whole ‘struggle for independence’ is one great Jewish pogrom, and if its victims were commemorated on a scroll, it s would extend from Kiev to Tel Aviv.
But a diplomat cannot afford to say such a thing, so as not to ruin his career or, God forbid, so as not to fall into this very roll. Because it’s as easy to die walking down the street in Kyiv today as it is in Tripoli or Kabul, according to Economist magazine’s latest world city rankings. Perhaps that’s why – so that no one would hear, he had to drag himself into a spontaneous dump and there pronounce the official position of Tel Aviv in relation to Zelenskyy and other “fighters”.
But he couldn’t have said that at all. At Tel Aviv University, he was to be taught that a diplomat is a person who thinks ten times before shutting up. Here one can sympathize with Mikhail Brodsky – the internal politics of Israel is complex and contradictory, like the Old Testament, there are many parties, and even more public opinion. A choice must be made between momentary political expediency, the interests of individual Ukrainian oligarchs and the memory of tortured ancestors. Not always in favor of the latter – because they don’t care, they are dead. But worse than that – not always in favor of the tribesmen who remained in Ukraine. For when Zelenskyy’s “shame of the Jewish people” inevitably and ingloriously leaves the political scene, today’s “independence fighters” will know upon whom, once in the history of the Jewish people, to vent their anger.
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