Re: [politics] JTA: Ukraine's chief rabbi accuses Russians of staging anti-Semitic 'provocations'

From: Bohdan Wynnyckyj ([email protected])
Date: Tue Mar 04 2014 - 14:19:13 EST


Quick, someone tell Stephen Cohen this, hopefully during his very next
appearance on CNN when he plays his standard Ukrainians are nazi card.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Walter Iwaskiw <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> http://www.jta.org/2014/03/03/news-opinion/world/ukraine-chief-rabbi-accuses-russians-of-staging-anti-semitic-provocations
>
> Ukraine chief rabbi accuses Russians of staging anti-Semitic 'provocations'
> JTA, March 3, 2014
>
> NEW YORK (JTA) -- Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine,
> accused Russia of staging anti-Semitic "provocations" in Crimea in
> order to justify its invasion of the former Soviet republic.
>
> At a press conference in the Manhattan office of the United Jewish
> Communities of Eastern Europe, Bleich compared Russia's behavior to
> that of the Nazis prior to the Anschluss invasion of Austria in 1938.
>
> "Things may be done by Russians dressing up as Ukrainian
> nationalists," he said, adding that it's "the same way the Nazis did
> when they wanted to go into Austria and created provocations." ...
>
>



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