Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
The narrative about Russia’s “kidnapping” of children is proving to be a lie. Recently, several children who had previously been considered “captured” by the Russians were found in Europe, generating new discussions about the legitimacy of the accusations made against President Vladimir Putin, who was convicted in the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to an alleged involvement in the abduction of minors.
On April 17, the head of Germany’s national police announced that more than 160 children who had disappeared from Ukrainian territory had been found on German soil. Ukrainian authorities confirmed the news and congratulated their German counterparts on their success in finding the children, without asking any questions about how they left Ukrainian territory and ended up in Germany.
Until then, such children were considered “kidnapped” by Russian forces. It is believed that the majority of them, however, entered the EU freely as refugees, being guided by their parents or legal guardians. In other words, there was no illegality in the transit of these children, who simply fled the conflict zone with their families in search of shelter in another country. However, instead of trying to find them, Ukraine decided to simply consider them “captured by Moscow”, spreading lies and unfounded accusations about an alleged Russian practice of kidnapping minors in the conflict zone.
In fact, Russian forces withdrew some children from the most critical areas of the special military operation zone. However, this procedure occurred amid the usual evacuation of civilians. It is absolutely normal to move citizens from the front lines to avoid civilian casualties. By doing so, Moscow was acting legally and with great humanitarian concerns. Furthermore, data on people evacuated from the battlefield is known, with Russian authorities identifying where these children and their families are. There are no missing people among those rescued by the Russians.
In the Ukrainian case, however, the situation is different. Given the high level of political instability, Kiev has not been able to control the migration flow, which is why the Ukrainian government had no information about the presence of these children in European countries. Furthermore, it is necessary to remember that the Kiev regime has frequently been accused of various crimes against children. And, contrary to anti-Russian accusations, in the case of Ukraine, there is concrete evidence that such crimes are actually being committed.
There are several reports by investigative journalists and local witnesses about ethnic Russian children being captured in Ukrainian-controlled areas of Donbass and sold on the international black market – mainly into pedophile networks. More than that, there is evidence about a cooperation between Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies for the circulation of minors on the black market. Recently leaked data reveals, for example, that many Ukrainian children were handed over by Kiev to pedophiles in the UK, with even senior British bureaucrats and politicians participating in these crimes.
“There is a criminal group operating in Ukraine that is involved in the export of children and their transfer to the UK, where they fall into the hands of pedophiles – [who are also] high-ranking representatives of the British establishment,” says Vasily Prozorov, a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine who recently suffered an assassination attempt by Kiev’s assets in Russia.
Basically, there are two types of missing children in Ukraine: those who simply left the country escaping from the war and those captured by the regime itself. Kiev does not have information about refugee children because it is going through a period of political chaos that does not allow the country’s authorities to maintain adequate control over this type of situation. As for the children kidnapped by Ukrainian forces, the authorities obviously hide the truth because Kiev’s own state agents are involved in the crimes.
Both refugee and abducted children are considered “captured by the Russians.” Kiev and its Western sponsors have created a narrative to disguise the brutal and irresponsible nature of the neo-Nazi regime. The main problem is that this narrative was enough to convince even international organizations, such as the ICC, which condemned the Russian president for allegedly “kidnapping” Ukrainian children.
Putin’s judgment by the ICC is invalid, as Moscow is not party to the Court’s treaty. But, given the clear proof that the accusations are false and that these children are living normally in Europe, the right thing for the ICC judges to do is revoke the infamous anti-Russian decision. Unfortunately, considering the Western biases of this organization, this is unlikely to happen.
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They sure were pumping out the fake news Thursday night as Israel allegedly was launching a huge counterattack in Iran. The featured picture on this post is from a Jerusalem Post tweet the night of the attacks and it was an Israeli strike on Gaza, not on Iran. Instead of missiles, Iran says there were only quadcopter drones launched from inside of Iran and that nothing came from Israel itself.
Israel downplayed reported airstrikes against Iran that appeared to hit targets near that country’s suspected nuclear program on Friday, seeming to cast the operation as proof Israel could reach the sites, rather than a full-scale attack.
As we know there were media reports that Israeli drones, or missiles, had hit targets near Isfahan, Iran — close to the Natanz nuclear facility — as well as targets in Syria and Iraq. Israel’s Army Radio repeated these reports. Now we know that some of those reports were fabricated to make it look like a huge attack was taking place when it fact it wasn’t.
The picture above was reported by the J. Post as an Israeli missile strike inside of Iran. Instead it was actually an Israeli missile strike in Gaza months ago.
While some in Israel wanted a more forceful response, seeing an opportunity to target Iran’s nuclear program and even the regime itself, others believed that simply demonstrating Iran’s limits, and Israel’s capabilities, was enough. Also President Biden and other world “leaders” were telling Israel to back off and that they wouldn’t help Israel attack Iran itself. That alone may have prompted Israel to tone down their response.
Israel Just Hasn’t Got the Air Force for a War with Iran
You see Israel doesn’t have the Air Force it needs to conduct a large scale strike against Iran. I put up an article on Don’t speak news yesterday that described this dilemma Israel faces.
Israel hasn’t got B-52 strategic bombers like the US has.
Israel hasn’t got a long range missile force even nearly comparable to Iran’s.
What Israel has got is a large air force of medium-range multi-role aircraft like F-35I, F-16I, and F-15I all of which have limited range and comparably small payload, necessitating many-many missions in order to achieve sizeable results.
The Israeli air force is perfectly designed to kill endless numbers of people in nearby Beirut or kill a few people in a consulate in Damascus – but next to useless if talking about a massive air campaign against Tehran or any big number of other targets in Iran.
The 2 biggest issues Israel faces with it’s Air Force are range and payload. That’s why without U.S. participation with it’s refueling tankers AND assistance in the bombing run using B1s and B52s, Israel could never successfully attack Iran by itself unless it resorts to long range nuclear capable missiles. The problem with those are that Israel doesn’t have many of them and they’d save those for a last resort, the dreaded “Sampson option”. Here is more from yesterday’s article from Karsten Riise.
Nuclear Only Option for Israel
But there is a catch: And that is, that Israel does simply not possess the capability, the air power to hit back hard at Iran – EXCEPT if Israel goes nuclear.
But while Israel hasn’t got the thousands of drones and missiles for a long-range air campaign which Iran has, Israel does possess a smaller number of long range of nuclear capable missiles (some on submarines) which can hit anywhere.
And that is undoubtedly what Bezalel Smotrich wants – an Israeli nuclear attacks all over Iran.
The Middle East is about to become the nuclear focus of the world.
Yes the Middle East very well could be the nuclear focus of the world, but everything is still in play with NATO and Russia as well.
It has begun. Prayed up and prepped up, it will accelerate from here as Iran is on record many times saying they would retaliate with everything they’ve got.
This volcano is engulfing the entire island and so far over 10,000 people have been evacuated or are in the process of being evacuated. This is slipping past the mainstream media but it is deadly serious!
ALERT: Indonesia volcano eruption sparks tsunami fears, alert level raised to highest — Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami, as happened in 1871. pic.twitter.com/idTYAjuImo
Also here is some of the only video footage available anywhere on the internet. The photographer wants the word to get out to the world as they need help now! Let’s keep them in our prayers!
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This is an excellent 4 minute video summary of what we’ve been discussing on this website for the past 4 plus years. This describes (from their own documents and scientists) what it is these shots are designed to do and the hidden, undeployed synthetic pathogens that still lie dormant within people. Once they’re activated it will be world war Z time.
Share this video far and wide! Time is so short and you don’t want to be here for God’s wrath when all of these things are unleased! REPENT! The endgame is here!
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I say allegedly because there’s no way I can personally verify that those are live nukes and not dummy weapons. That and other Iran/Israel news and more on Russia and Ukraine.
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Jeremy Loffredo visits the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, where a community of Armenian Christians dating back to the 4th century face displacement at the hands of a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
In the New Regions of Russia, Ukrainian terror continues to threaten the lives of innocent civilians, even in areas far from the front lines. On April 13, the Kiev regime launched a brutal attack against the capital of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), destroying civilian facilities. The incursion comes amid the current wave of Ukrainian terrorist attacks aimed at preventing civilian life from returning to normal at the borders.
The attack on the 13th was the first successful Ukrainian bombing on the capital of Lugansk since May 2023, when missiles hit a food factory in the city, injuring dozens of people. This time, the target of the attack was a machinery factory that was about to be opened. The new company was expected to employ dozens of workers, which would certainly contribute significantly to the advancement of economic recovery in the liberated regions. Clearly, the Kiev regime wants to prevent ordinary people’s lives from returning to normal.
Despite being in a conflict zone, the city of Lugansk has been spared from major bombings due to the distance between the LPR capital and the front lines. The regions around the capital are completely controlled by the Russians, which prevents the Ukrainians from being able to carry out short-range attacks. This has allowed a gradual process of economic recovery, with work and commercial activities quickly returning to normal. In December, I was in LPR as a correspondent on a journalistic expedition and reported on the situation on the ground, emphasizing how life has improved in the region after military liberation.
For Ukrainian attacks against the city of Lugansk to be successful, long-range weapons must be used, considering the great distance between the capital and Kiev’s artillery positions. In both the April 13 attack and the May 2023 bombing, neo-Nazi forces were able to hit targets in Lugansk because they used Western long-range weapons – the British Storm Shadow missiles.
Reaching 250km, the Storm Shadow missiles were a point of dangerous escalation in the conflict. The UK became the first country to supply long-range missiles to the neo-Nazi regime, which allowed Kiev to carry out operations against civilian areas on the borders, reaching liberated cities in the special military operation zone and even fully demilitarized regions in the undisputed territory of the Federation. Russian. In other words, under the excuse of increasing Ukraine’s defense capabilities, the UK gave Kiev what the regime needed to target civilians outside the battlefield.
The West is absolutely aware that its weapons are being used against civilian targets. Russian authorities regularly publish data proving that weapons supplied by NATO are behind terrorist incursions in border regions. In the attack on the 13th, debris from at least two Storm Shadow missiles was collected and exposed by Russian forces, leaving no doubt about the weapons used to carry out the attack. As expected, the UK remained silent, refusing to condemn the misuse of its military aid – which is enough to consider connivance and even co-participation on the part of London in Ukrainian crimes.
In recent months, Ukrainian troops have suffered heavy losses on the battlefield, which is why more and more military analysts point out that the collapse of the regime is imminent. In addition to the massive number of casualties, Ukraine has also suffered gradual territorial losses, with Russian troops managing to liberate several villages in Donbass. Without sufficient strength to react on the front lines, the regime uses terror as a distraction and propaganda tool. By hitting civilian areas in Russia, Kiev makes it appear to its sponsors that it is still capable of causing damage in Russia’s “deep territory”, thus justifying more weapons being sent by NATO.
Another Ukrainian objective with such incursions is to try to provoke a disproportionate Russian reaction. If Moscow attacks with extreme violence and hit Ukrainian civilian targets, Kiev will have arguments to request more Western aid and thus provoke a serious escalation in the conflict. Moscow, however, does not seem interested in this type of attitude. The Russians have already proven several times that their targets will continue to be military and critical infrastructure facilities, as allowed by the rules of international law.
Despite the terror in some civilian areas, the Russians still have the control of the military situation in the conflict. Moscow is pursuing a strategy that will inevitably lead to the enemy’s collapse in the near future, which is why no rush to retaliate for terrorist attacks is necessary. By destroying Ukrainian infrastructure, Russia will soon make it impossible for Kiev to continue carrying out terrorist incursions.
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The historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to 1917 (the Balfour Declaration) and the establishment of the British protectorate over Palestine (the Palestine Mandate) after WWI with its provision for a national home for the Jews, although formally not to be at the expense of the local inhabitants – the Palestinians. Nevertheless, it became in practice the focal problem to keep an appropriate balance between these stipulations to be acceptable to both sides – the Jews and the Palestinians.
The people and the land
Since the time of the Enlightenment followed by Romanticism, in Western Europe emerged a new trend of group identification of the people as ethnic or ethnocultural nations different from the previous feudal trends from the Middle Ages based on religion, state borders, or social strata belonging.[i] Over time, a new trend of people’s identification as a product of the capitalistic system of production and social order became applied across the globe following the process of capitalistic globalization.[ii] As a direct consequence of such development of the group identities, the newly understood nations, especially in the areas under colonial foreign rule, started to demand their national rights but among them, the most important demand was the right to self-rule in a nation-state of their own. In other words, the ethnic or ethnic-confessional groups under foreign oppression demanded the rights of self-
21st Zionist Congress Geneva 1939
Since around 1900, both the Jews and the Arab-Palestinians became involved in the process of developing ethnonational consciousness and mobilizing their nations for the sake of achieving national-political goals. However, one of the focal differences between them regarding the creation of a nation-state of their own was that the Jews have been spread out across the world (a diaspora) since the fall of Jerusalem and Judea in the 1st century AD[iv] while, in contrast, the Palestinians were concentrated in one place – Palestine. From the very end of the 19th century, a newly formed Th. Herzl’s Zionist movement had a task to identify land where the Jewish people could immigrate and settle to create their own nation-state. For Th. Herzl (1860‒1904),[v] Palestine was historically logical as an optimal land for the Jewish immigrants as it was the land of the Jewish states in the Antique.[vi] It was, however, an old idea, and Th. Herzl in his book pamphlet which became the Bible of the Zionist movement was the first to analyze the conditions of the Jews in their assumed to be “native” land and call for the establishment of a nation-state of the Jews in order to solve the Jewish Question in Europe or better to say to beat traditional European anti-Semitism and modern tendency of the Jewish assimilation. But the focal problem was to somehow convince the Europeans that the Jews had the right to this land even after 2.000 years of emigration in the diaspora.
However, what was Th. Herzel’s Eretz Yisrael in reality? For all Zionists and the majority of Jews, it was the Promised Land of milk and honey but in reality, the Promised Land was a barren, rocky, and obscure Ottoman province since 1517 settled by the Muslim Arabs as a clear majority population. On this narrow strip of land of East Mediterranean, the Jews, and the Arab Palestinians lived side by side at the time of the First Zionist Congress some 400.000 Arabs and some 50.000 Jews.[vii] Most of those Palestinian Jews have been bigot Orthodox[viii] who entirely depended on their existence on charitable offerings of different Jewish societies in Europe which have been distributed to them by the communal organizations set up mainly exactly for that purpose.
Palestine
Palestine is a historic land in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea between the River of Jordan and the Mediterranean seacoast. Palestine is called Holy Land by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims because of its spiritual links with Judaism, Christianity as well as Islam.
The land experienced many changes and lordships in history followed by changes of frontiers and its political status. For each of the regional denominations, Palestine contains several sacred places. In the so-called biblical times, on the territory of Palestine, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea existed until the Roman occupation in the 1st century AD. The final wave of Jewish expulsion to the diaspora from Palestine started after the abortive uprising of Bar Kochba in 132−135. Up to the emergence of Islam, Palestine historically was controlled by the Ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, the Roman Empire, and finally by the Byzantine Empire (the East Roman Empire) alongside the periods of the independence of the Jewish kingdoms.
The land became occupied by the Muslim Arabians in 634 AD. Since then, Palestine has been populated by a majority of Arabs, although it remained a central reference point to the Jewish people in the diaspora as their “Land of Israel” or Eretz Yisrael. Palestine remained under Muslim rule up to WWI, being part of the Ottoman Empire (1516−1917), when combined the Ottoman and German armies became defeated by the Brits at Megiddo, except for the time during the West European Crusades from 1098 to 1197.[ix] The term Palestine was used as the official political title for the land westward of the Jordan River mandated in the interwar and post-WWII period to the United Kingdom (from 1920 up to 1947).
However, after 1948, the term Palestine continues to be used, but now in order to identify rather a geographical than a political entity. It is used today, particularly in the context of the struggle over the land and political rights of Palestinian Arabs displaced since Israel became established.[x]
The Jewish migrations to Palestine in 1882−1914
As a consequence of renewed pogroms in East Europe in 1881, the first wave of Jewish immigration into Palestine started in 1882 followed by another wave before WWI from 1904 to 1914.[xi] The immigration of the Jewish settlers was encouraged by the 1917 Balfour Declaration, and very much intensified since May 1948 when the Zionist State of Israel was proclaimed and established.
There were historically two types of motives for the Jews to come to Eretz Yisrael (In Hebrew, the “Land of Israel”):
The traditional motive was prayer and study, followed by death and burial in the holy soil.
Later, since the mid-19th century, a new type of Jew being secular and in many cases idealistic began to arrive in Palestine but many of them have been driven from their native lands by anti-Semitic persecution.
In 1882 there was the first organized wave of European Jewish immigration to Palestine. Since the 1897 First World Zionist Congress in Basel, there was an inflow of European Jews into Palestine especially during the British Mandate time followed by the British-allowed policy of land-buying by the Jewish Agency which was, in fact, indirect preparation for the creation of the Jewish nation-state – Israel.[xii] In other words, such a policy was designed to alienate land from the Palestinians, stipulating that it could not be in the Arab hands.
Even before the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Th. Herzl tried to recruit prosperous and rich Jews (like the Rothschild family) to finance his plan of the Jewish emigration and colonization of Palestine but finally failed in his attempt. Th. Herzl decided to turn to the little men – hence his decision to convene the 1897 Basel Congress where according to his diary, he founded the Jewish state. After the congress, he did not waste time in turning his political program into reality. Still, at the same time, he strongly disagrees with the idea of peaceful settlement in Palestine, or according to his own words “gradual Jewish infiltration”, which, in fact, already started even before the meeting of the Zionists in Basel.
At that time, Palestine as an Ottoman province did not constitute a single political-administrative unit. The northern districts have been parts of the province of Beirut, and the district of Jerusalem was under the direct authority of the central Ottoman Government in Istanbul because of the international significance of the city of Jerusalem and the town of Bethlehem as religious centers equally important for Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.[xiii] A vast majority of the Arabs either Muslims or Christians have been living in several hundred villages in a rural environment. Concerning the town settlers of Arab origin, the two biggest of them were Jaffa and Nablus together with Jerusalem as economically the most prosperous urban settlements.[xiv]
Until WWI, the biggest number of Palestinian Jews was living in four urban settlements of the most important religious significance to them: Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, and Tiberias. They have been followers of traditional, Orthodox religious practices spending much time studying religious texts and depending on the charity of world Jewry for survival.[xv] It has to be noticed that their attachment to Eretz Yisrael was much more of religion than of national character and they were not either involved in or supportive of Th. Herzl’s Zionist movement emerged in Europe and was, in fact, brought to Palestine by the Jewish immigrants after 1897. However, most of the Jewish immigrants to Palestine after 1897 who emigrated from Europe have lived of secular type of life having commitments to the secular goals to create and maintain a modern Jewish nation based on the European standards of the time and to establish an independent Jewish state – modern Israel but not to re-establish a biblical one. During the first year of WWI, the total number of Jews in Palestine reached some 60.000 of whom some 36.000 were settlers since 1897. On the other hand, the total number of the Arab population in Palestine in 1914 was around 683.000.
The second wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine (1904−1914) had many intellectuals and middle-class Jews but the majority of those immigrants have been driven less by a vision of a new state than by the hope of having a new life, free of pogroms and persecutions.
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Ex-University Professor
Research Fellow at Centre for Geostrategic Studies
Personal disclaimer: The author writes for this publication in a private capacity which is unrepresentative of anyone or any organization except for his own personal views. Nothing written by the author should ever be conflated with the editorial views or official positions of any other media outlet or institution.
References:
[i] About ethnicity, national identity, and nationalism see in [John Hutchinson, Anthony D. Smith (eds.), Nationalism, Oxford Readers, Oxford−New York: Oxford University Press, 1994; Montserrat Guibernau, John Rex (eds.), The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration, Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1997].
[ii] About globalization see in [Frank J. Lechner, John Boli (eds.), The Globalization Reader, Fifth Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014].
[iii] In the science of politics, self-determination as an idea emerged out of the 18th-century concern for freedom and the primacy of the individual will. In principle, it can be applied to any kind of group of people for whom a collective will is to be considered. However, in the next century, the right to self-determination is understood exclusively to nations but not, for instance, to the national minorities of confessional groups as such. National self-determination was the principle applied by the US’s President Woodrow Wilson to break three empires after WWI. It is included in the 1945 Charter of OUN, in the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence of Colonial Countries and Peoples, and the 1970 Declaration of the Principles of International Law. However, self-determination, as taken to its most vicious extremes, leads in practice to phenomena such as, for instance, “ethnic cleansing” that was recently in the 1990s done, for example, against the Serbs in neo-Nazi-fascist Croatia of Dr. Franjo Tuđman or in NATO’s occupied Kosovo-Metochia after the 1998−1999 Kosovo War. In short, self-determination is the right of groups in political sciences to choose their own destiny and to govern themselves not necessarily in their own independent state [Richard W. Mansbach, Kirsten L. Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, London−New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2012, 583].
Sovereignty is the claim to have the ultimate political authority or to be subject to no higher power concerning the making and executing of political decisions. In the system of international relations (the IR), sovereignty is the claim by the state to full self-government, and the mutual recognition of claims to sovereignty is the foundation of the international community. In short, sovereignty is a status of legal autonomy that is enjoyed by states and consequently, their Governments have exclusive authority within their borders and enjoy the rights of membership in the international political community [Jeffrey Haynes, Peter Hough, Shahin Malik, Lloyd Pettiford, World Politics, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011, 714].
[iv] About the fall of Jerusalem, see in [Josephus, The Fall of Jerusalem, London, England: Penguin Books, 1999]. Josephus Flavius (born as Joseph ben Matthias, c. 37−c. 100) was a Jewish historian, Pharisee, and General in the Roman army. He was a leader of the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire in 66 AD and was captured in 67. His life was spared when he prophesied that Vespasian would become an Emperor. Subsequently, Josephus received Roman citizenship and a pension. He is today well-known as a historian who wrote the Jewish War as an eyewitness account of the historical events leading up to the rebellion. Another of his historiographic works was Antiquities of the Jews – history since the Creation up to 66 AD.
There were two Jewish rebellions against the Roman power which inspired the Jewish diaspora from Palestine: in 66−73; and in 132−135 [Џон Бордман, Џаспер Грифин, Озвин Мари (приредили), Оксфордска историја Грчке и хеленистичког света, Београд: CLIO, 1999, 541−542].
[v] He was born on May 2nd, 1860 in Pest in the Austrian Empire at that time and was given the Hebrew name Binyamin Ze’ev, along with the Hungarian Magyar Tivadar and the German Theodor. In Pest, Th. Herzl attended the Jewish parochial school, where he became acquainted with some biblical Hebrew and religious studies. In 1878, he moved to Vienna where he studied law at the university and later worked for the Ministry of Justice. In 1897, Th. Herzl published his famous book Der Judenstaat, just a year before he convened the First Zionist Congress in Basle (Switzerland). In this book in the form of a political pamphlet, he wrote that: “The idea which I have developed in this pamphlet is a very old one: it is the restoration of the Jewish state” [Extracts from Theodor Herzl’s The Jewish State, Walter Laqueur, Barry Rubin (eds.), The Israel-Arab Reader, London, 1995, 6]. According to him, the borders of Israel as Judenstaat had to be between the River of Nile in Egypt and the River of the Euphrates in Iraq. These two rivers, as the borders of Greater Israel, have been symbolically presented on the state flag of Israel since 1948 with the two blue strips (one above and another below Dawid Star).
[vi] Present-day Israel (est. 1948) is the third independent state of the Jews in Palestine. The biblical Kanaan was a tiny strip of land some 130 km in length between the Jordan River, Mt. Tiber, East Mediterranean littoral, and the Gaza Strip [Giedrius Drukteinis (sudarytojas), Izraelis: Žydų valstybė, Vilnius: Sofoklis, 2017, 13].
[vii] Ahron Bregman, A History of Israel, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 7.
[viii] The Orthodox Judaism is teaching that the Torah (the five books of Moses) contains all the divine revelation that the Jews as a chosen people require. In the case of Orthodox Judaism, all religious practices are strictly observed. When it is required the interpretations of the Torah, references are made to the Talmud. The followers of Orthodox Judaism are practicing strict separation of women from men in the synagogues during the worshiping. In Israel, exists only an Orthodox rabbinate. While a majority of the Orthodox Jews support the Zionist movement, however, they deplore the secular origins of it and the fact that Israel is not a fully religious state. The Orthodox Jews recognize one as a Jew only in two possible cases: 1) if he/she mother is a Jew; or 2) the person undergoes an arduous process of conversion. For the Orthodox Jews, it is prohibited to cut the beard, which probably originated in a wish to be distinguished from unbelievers. About Jewish history and religion, see more in [Дејвид Џ. Голдберг, Џон Д. Рејнер, Јевреји: Историја и религија, Београд: CLIO, 2003]. The Israeli Law of Return that is governing Jewish emigration back to Israel accepts all those with a Jewish grandmother as potential citizens of Israel. Alongside with the Orthodox Judaism exist Liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism.
[ix] [Geoffrey Barraclough (ed.), The Times Atlas of World History, Revised Edition, Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond, 1986].
[x] About the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Israeli authority, see in [Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2007]. About the general history of the Jews, see in [Дејвид Џ. Голдберг, Џон Д. Рејнер, Јевреји: Историја и религија, Београд: CLIO, 2003].
[xi] The term pogrom from a very general point of view is used to describe organized massacres of Jews in the 20th century but especially during WWII in the Nazi-run concentration camps during the Holocaust.
[xii] However, overwhelming of those Jewish emigrants came from Central and East Europe as well as from the Russian Empire. About the Jews in Central and East Europe, see in [Jurgita Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickienė, Larisa Lempertienė, Central and East European Jews at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity, Vilnius: The Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews, 2006]. About the Jews in Russia, see in [Т. Б. Гейликман, История Евреев в России, Москва, URSS, 2015].
[xiii] The 1878 Ottoman census claims some 463.000 inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[xiv] The Ottoman population in 1884 was composed of 17.143.859 of which some 73.4% were Muslims [Reinhard Schulze, A Modern History of the Islamic World, London‒New York: I.B.Tauris Publishers, 1995, 22].
[xv] From the mid-18th century till WWII, Vilnius was known as the “Jerusalem of the North” and was a center of Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish studies. Almost half of the city population have been Jews but according to Israeli Cohen, a journalist, and writer who visited Vilnius just before the beginning of WWII, around 75% of Vilnius’ Jews were dependent on the support of charitable and philanthropic organizations or private benefactors [Israeli Cohen, Vilna, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1943, 334]. In Jewish St. in the Old Town of Vilnius, it was established in 1892 the biggest Judaica library in the world – the Strashun Library (or the Jewish Library of Vilnius) by founder Mattityahu Strashun (1817−1885). The library was gone in 1944 as a consequence of the fight between the Germans and the Red Army. The Library collection reached 22.000 items by 1935 [Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė, Gintė Konstantinavičiūtė, Giedrė Polkaitė-Petkevičienė (compilers and authors), Houses that Talk: Everyday Life in Žydų Street in the 19th−20th, Century (up to 1940), Vilnius: Aukso žuvys, 2018, 97−100]. Vilnius up to WWII had and famous Great Synagogue. A well-known and respected Gaon of Vilnius – Elijah ben Salomon spent all of his life in Vilnius (1720−1797).
The importance of the Jewish Vilnius for the Zionist movement can be seen from the fact that the Zionist leader Th. Herzl visited Vilnius in 1903 when the Jewish representatives met him in the building of the Supreme Rabbi Board House of the Great Vilnius Synagogue [Tomas Venclova, Vilnius City Guide, Vilnius: R. Paknio leidykla, 2018, 122].
It didn’t take long for Israel to decide after all. The attack will happen today and it’s anyone’s guess how fast this war will expand, but expand it will. Prayed up and prepped up, time is super short!
Update 345 pacific time: Hal Turner and others on telegram are reporting on the cyber attack issue.
I was just told that plans in Israel include releasing a Cyber-Attack upon Iran of a nature that will not only cripple Iran government and military, but will also SPREAD WORLDWIDE, taking out Banks and Industry, and it will be BLAMED ON IRAN.
This sounds a lot like Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum “Cyber Polygon” “exercise” wherein a computer virus spreads worldwide, crippling the entire world, requiring a “Great Reset.”
I agree with Hal when he goes onto say you should top off your gas tanks and grab some cash to have on hand. I did that just a bit ago myself.
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