40 "former" Israel Defence Force veterans fought in Majdan to bring democracy to Ukraine

The ex-Israeli soldier who led a Kiev fighting unit 'Delta' has headed 'the Blue Helmets of Maidan' of 40 men and women - including several IDF veterans - in violent clashes with government forces.

He calls his troops “the Blue Helmets of Maidan,” but brown is the color of the headgear worn by Delta — the nom de guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated in the Ukrainian revolution. Under his helmet, he also wears a kippah.

Delta, a Ukraine-born former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, spoke to JTA Thursday on condition of anonymity. He explained how he came to use combat skills he acquired in the Shu’alei Shimshon reconnaissance battalion of the Givati infantry brigade to rise through the ranks of Kiev’s street fighters. He has headed a force of 40 men and women — including several fellow IDF veterans — inviolent clashes with government forces.

Source:  Haaretz

Jews ask new Ukraine government to reassure Jewish community

Dmitro Yarosh, leader of Right Sector, met with Israel's ambassador to Ukraine, Reuven Din El, and told him that their movement rejects anti-Semitism and xenophobia and will not tolerate it. He said their goals were a democratic Ukraine, transparent government, ending corruption, and equal opportunity for all ethnic groups.

The day before, Ukrainian Jewish journalist Eleonora Groisman interviewed Sergei Mischenko, the leader of "Spilna Sprava," and told him that Ukraine's Jews were worried about the nationalists. Mischenko responded that Jews will not have any problems and shouldn't worry. He went on to say, 

"On the Maidan there were Jews with us who served in the Israeli Defense Forces. We got along excellently and fought shoulder to shoulder."

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abraham-h-foxman/in-ukraine-new-government_b_4875833.html

Will Ukraine's Revolution Be Good for Its Jews?

The most ardent Jewish supporter of Maidan has been Joseph Zissels, chairman of the Va’ad—Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities in Ukraine. Since his days as a young dissident in the 1960s, Zissels has worked to bring together the Ukrainian and Jewish movements. He spent six years in the Soviet Gulag, and went on to found the Va’ad in 1989. Zissels argues that Jews and Ukrainians need to turn a new page in their relations, and overcome old grudges, suspicions, and stereotypes. Maidan represents integration with Europe, he says. That is good for Ukraine, and is especially good for its Jews.

On the night of February 20, after the bloodiest day in modern Ukrainian history, with more than 70 people dead in the streets of Kiev and society on the verge of civil war, the country’s most respected TV political talk show, “Freedom of Speech,” featured an interview with Zissels.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/193410/will-ukraines-revolution-be-good-for-its-jews/?p=all#ixzz2xHCminId

Picture of Benjamin Netanyahu casting 'Hitler mustache' shadow on German Chancellor Angela Merkel goes viral

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been caught on camera unintentionally pointing his finger to form a shadow looking like a 'Hitler moustache' on German chancellor Angela Merkel's face

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What this picture shows in reality is that of extreme German obedience. The dialogue between the two figures speaks volumes: master looks down upon slave, invades its private space, commands and slave complies super-obediently not daring to eye up his master...

U.S. pushing Israel to stop assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists

Although Israel has never acknowledged it, the country's famed espionage agency - the Mossad - ran an assassination campaign for several years aimed at Iran's top nuclear scientists. The purpose was to slow the progress made by Iran, which Israel feels certain is aimed at developing nuclear weapons; and to deter trained and educated Iranians from joining their country's nuclear program.

At least five Iranian scientists were murdered, most of them by bombs planted on their cars as they drove to work in the morning. Remarkably, the Israeli assassins were never caught - obviously having long-established safe houses inside Iran - although several Iranians who may have helped the Mossad were arrested and executed.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-pushing-israel-to-stop-assassinating-iranian-nuclear-scientists/

^ Of course this article comes from controlled media and wastes time making Obama look as if he has an option to object against Israel's demands.

US upgrades Israel to status above any other country

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved on Wednesday a bill that would enhance US-Israel defence ties and waived US entrance visa for Israelis.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Congressman Ted Deutch initiated the bill as they are the top two members on the committee's Middle East subcommittee; they strongly supported the bill, which was unanimously approved.

The bill named Israel a "major strategic ally" of the United States. It included measures that would encourage enhanced cooperation such as missile development, energy and security. No other state has ever got this status.

Source: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/10152-us-upgrades-israel-to-status-above-any-other-country

Israel launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online

This is our opportunity, as Israeli students, to provide hasbara [state propaganda] that is correct and balanced, to help in the struggle against the delegitimization of the State of Israel and against hatred of Jews in the world.Source: http://www.awakeningtheglobe.com/israeli-students-to-get-2000-to-spread-state-propaganda-on-facebook/

Jewish groups welcome immigration reform proposals in US that gives citizenship to all illegals

Jewish organizations praised President Obama’s immigration reform proposals, as well as similar measures offered by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators.

In addressing the problem of the 11 million undocumented people in the Unitd States, Obama at a speech Tuesday in Las Vegas stressed the need to enforce current laws and create a path to citizenship.

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Also weighing in was the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism. Associate director Barbara Weinstein called the proposals “important steps toward resolving the challenges that have plagued our immigration system for far too long.” She noted that Jewish tradition “commands us to welcome the stranger.”

Read more: Jewish groups welcome immigration reform proposals | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-welcome-immigration-reform-proposals/#ixzz2xH0QTe3H
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Meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Israel must be a Jewish state “or there will never be peace”

More on this here: http://newobserveronline.com/netanyahu-demands-jews-only-state-so-why-do-americas-jews-support-open-borders-for-the-us/

Iraq War architect Bill Kristol complains about Americans not fighting for Israel more

Bill Kristol, son of neoconservative titan Irving Kristol and editor of the Weekly Standard,has a new essay up at the Standard’s website, decrying American war-weariness and chastising politicians who use Americans’ desire to avoid war as “as an excuse to avoid maintaining our defenses or shouldering our responsibilities.”

Source:  weeklystandard

Kristol was born on December 23, 1952 in New York City, into a Jewish family. His father, the late Irving Kristol, served as the managing editor of Commentary magazine and has been described as the "godfather of neoconservatism".^[3] His mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb, was a scholar of Victorian era literature. He graduated in 1970 from The Collegiate School, a preparatory school for boys.

He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List.^[2]

Anti-Semitism is 'Part and Parcel of European Culture'

Europe hasn't changed all that much, at least in regards to its feelings about Jews, according to Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, former head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

“They don't like to hear that,” Gersetenfeld told a Haifa audience last week. “But it's clear that anti-Semitism is a part and parcel of the culture of Europe, not just historically, but currently.”

  Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178788#.UzWXM3WSwie