- The current violence, i.e., war, between Ukraine and Russia, as war always do, is hurting many innocent people. However, there has been an over emphasis on the implications of this war on the Jewish communities. This war is not about the Ukranian Jewish people. They are not the centre, although the media is giving emphasis to it because the claims of Jewish ancestry by Zelenski. What about the Gypsies? What about ethnic Russians? What about the Ukranians? Jews and non-Jewish people are suffering on both sides this insane war. See the excellent reflection on this issue by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein at https://cross-currents.com/2022/03/09/why-to-shed-tears-for-the-ukraine/
- Zelenski appeals to the Jewish people around the world, including Russia. This places Jews in a dangerous situation. Anti-Semitic groups use any excuse to blame Jewish people of any tragedy.
- Being Jewish does not make anyone more righteous neither right in everything he or she does. We had very good leaders in ancient Israel and very bad evil ones too. Today we have both good and bad Jewish leaders in Israel and around the world. We do not support someone as a politician just because he or she is Jewish, as antisemitic propaganda claims. If that was the case, Bernie Sanders would have become the President of the USA.
- Putin is doing so much wrong in his attempt to do something good for the Russian people in Ukraine. However, the fact that Russia's approach to the conflict with Ukrainia is wrong, does not make Ukraine to be right.
- How soon the world have forgotten how Ukrainians were dealing with the Gypsies a few days ago, or with ethnic Russians, Jews, et al. Of course, that's not a reason for war. It is a reason for nations to challenge the racist policy of Ukraine just as they challenge Putin's administration. Today Black African immigrants workers are still suffering discrimination in Ukraine as they try to return home, as well as the Gypsy communities seeking refuge from the war.
- The fact that President Vladimir Putin is wrong, doesn't make President Volodymyr Zelenski right. The same way Tevye der Milkhiker told "You are also right" to a third disagreeing person, we can say "you are also wrong" to Zelenski, Putin and the NATO.
- Neo Nazi ideologies and power is very real in Ukraine, regardless of a previous Jewish Prime Minister or the current President. Just as the institutionalized racism is present and is a tragic reality in the USA regardless of an African American Irish President. Russia also has its neo Nazism problem and the reality of antisemitism.
- One of the worse consequences of this war is how is giving excuses to NATO, especially Germany, to build up their military.
- Perhaps, Israel neither the USA have the moral to lecture Putin, as some news writers have said; however, Israel's biblical tradition has so much to teach Putin and Zelenski. If Europe and the USA and Canada would speak as loud as they are now when war crimes are committed in the Middle East, Africa and human rights abuses are done within their own countries, this world would be a different place. Especially since so many of the politicians claim to be people of faith.
- If Zelenski is in fact Jewish, he must listen to the words of the Hebrew prophets. If Putin is in fact an Orthodox Christian he should listen to the words of Jesus of Nazareth.
Would it be good to tune into Moskova Radio to listen the Soviet soldiers,
Ukrainians and Russian singing,
instead of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers fighting each other?
