Israel now a secular Russian colony?
Arielle claims that most people support Israel because they believe it’s populated by the survivors and descendents of Europe’s Holocaust, from Germany and Poland particularly, but this is a myth perpetuated by successive Israeli governments – particularly the present coalition of Netanyahu and Lieberman (pictured) – in order to induce global guilt, sympathy and funds for a Jewish state which has now morphed into a secular Russian colony.
“Russian Jews – who lived in Marxist ‘heaven’ since the 1917 Russian Revolution – were prominent in the early settlement of Israel (think Golda Meir),” explains Arielle, “and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 there was a massive exodus from Russia which catapulted earlier Russian migrants into prominence – especially Avigdor Lieberman who is now the face of modern Israel as the leader of the Russian speaking Yisrael Beiteinu party (the third largest political party in Israel), as well as being the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister in Netanyahu’s coalition government.”
“Lieberman’s family migrated from Russia to Israel in 1978 when he was 20 – an age at which it is almost impossible to change stripes, I should know, that’s how old I am,” laughs Arielle. “After serving in the army he earned a BA in International Relations and Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while working as a bouncer, and then a manager, in a student club; and later co-founded the Zionist Forum for Soviet Jewry and in 1988 went to work with Netanyahu.”
“The Great Immigration of Russian settlers between 1989 and 1996 provided a stellar opportunity for Lieberman,” says Arielle. “He started his own Russian speaking Yisrael Beiteinu party and harnessing the enormous power of nearly a million well-educated and politically disillusioned immigrants he helped to change the political, social, economic and cultural face of Israel; and, despite being investigated by Israeli police about corruption and thuggish behavior, Lieberman remains untouchable by virtue of his huge Russian support base.”
“The Russian immigrants – conservatively 900,000 since 1989 – increased Israel's ‘Jewish’ population by almost 20 percent, to 5.2 million and constitute about 20 per cent of the Israeli electorate,” says Arielle. “Because being ‘Jewish’ is defined politically as having one Jewish grandparent, the immigrants are not even secular Jews – they are largely atheists and winning their votes became a hard and dirty struggle.”
“They refuse to assimilate – they run their own Russian-language newspapers, television stations, magazines, schools, bars and restaurants and choose to live separately from the established Israeli communities,” says Arielle. “They are Russians first and foremost; they are allowed dual citizenship; they can return to their homeland any time they please but choose to remain in Israel because they have more political clout and social benefits – particularly healthcare, courtesy of US aid – in their adopted homeland than they do in present Russia.”
“As in all nations with immigrants, there is resentment on both sides but the frequent brawls between Russian and Israeli youth show that this resentment is deep-seated,” explains Arielle. “The Russians have gained reputations as thieves, anti-Semites, alcoholics, prostitutes and racketeers; and the Israelis are slated as being liars for misrepresenting the Israeli-Palestine conflict and enticing Russians to migrate with a false picture of a warm welcome awaiting them in Israel.”
“The immigrants complain that they are treated like second-class citizens, and discriminated against in employment,” adds Arielle. “It’s believed that 65 percent of immigrants with university degrees are either unemployed or forced into casual menial jobs, and coming from Russia – where everyone was working and had tenure of employment – this is a huge complaint, but one that is related more to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the new global economy than to any intrinsic fault of Israel.”
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“There is a huge cultural gap between the Israelis and the dominant Russian immigrants. Those that suffered hard lives in Russia feel disgust at the easy lives of the Israelis, and those that thought they were escaping the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union are shocked to find Israel an even worse dictatorship disguised as democracy.”
“Although service in the military offers the young immigrants an entry ticket of sorts into Israeli society,” says Arielle, “many refuse to serve and prefer prison. This has led to Israel relying more and more on foreign military forces to fight their wars for them. ”
“The Russian immigrants have definitely made Israel more ‘European’, but in doing so they have also made it less religious. Believing that one Jewish grandparent is enough to be called Jewish, the immigrants who wish to follow the Jewish faith are incensed to find that the rabbis insist that that definition applies only to a person with a Jewish mother. Consequently, Jewish marriages, divorces and burials can be denied.”
“Little wonder, then, that the immigrants have separated and recreated a little Russia within Israel,” says Arielle. “They hold dual citizenship and maintain strong ties with their motherland – ties which allow officials from the former Soviet Union (who once supplied arms to the Arab states, conducted a cold war with the west and denied Jewish citizens the right to emigrate) to be welcomed in Russian immigrant dominated Israel as friends, allies and business partners.”
“The only thing that really glues the Russian immigrants and the Israeli’s together, it appears, is a common hatred or fear of the rising Islamic world and that, perhaps, is the reason why the Israeli government's definition of citizenship eligibility is now so liberal (one Jewish grandparent gets you in). With about 1 million Russians still in the former Soviet Union who qualify for Israeli citizenship – and Avigdor Lieberman eager for his Russian speaking Yisrael Beiteinu party to become the leading political party in Israel – it is likely that he will do his best to entice more Russian immigrants to Israel, and may even drop the Jewish requirement altogether for his Russian compatriots.”
“Russia, along with the US, UN, and EU plays a role in the Arab-Israeli peace process and because the negotiations have become so tortuous and protracted one wonders exactly what is going on,” muses Arielle. “Lieberman, like Netanyahu, believes in Israel’s right to expand settlement in Palestinian territory and won’t budge on Jerusalem and in this respect they are in direct confrontation with the UN, EU and the US – so are we looking at a Russo-Israeli alliance?”
“In dealing with Israel, are we now, in fact, dealing with our old cold war adversaries?”
“Are we so bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan – fighting a war to make Israel safe, sending our youth into the killing fields while Israel and Russia look on, rub their hands and line their pockets – that we fail to see the big picture?”
“What I am suggesting is that the aid we have been giving Israel to support and protect the Holocaust survivors is, instead, supporting and protecting recent Russian immigrants of dubious origin and may one day be used against us.”
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“Russian Jews – who lived in Marxist ‘heaven’ since the 1917 Russian Revolution – were prominent in the early settlement of Israel (think Golda Meir),” explains Arielle, “and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 there was a massive exodus from Russia which catapulted earlier Russian migrants into prominence – especially Avigdor Lieberman who is now the face of modern Israel as the leader of the Russian speaking Yisrael Beiteinu party (the third largest political party in Israel), as well as being the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister in Netanyahu’s coalition government.”
“Lieberman’s family migrated from Russia to Israel in 1978 when he was 20 – an age at which it is almost impossible to change stripes, I should know, that’s how old I am,” laughs Arielle. “After serving in the army he earned a BA in International Relations and Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while working as a bouncer, and then a manager, in a student club; and later co-founded the Zionist Forum for Soviet Jewry and in 1988 went to work with Netanyahu.”
“The Great Immigration of Russian settlers between 1989 and 1996 provided a stellar opportunity for Lieberman,” says Arielle. “He started his own Russian speaking Yisrael Beiteinu party and harnessing the enormous power of nearly a million well-educated and politically disillusioned immigrants he helped to change the political, social, economic and cultural face of Israel; and, despite being investigated by Israeli police about corruption and thuggish behavior, Lieberman remains untouchable by virtue of his huge Russian support base.”
“The Russian immigrants – conservatively 900,000 since 1989 – increased Israel's ‘Jewish’ population by almost 20 percent, to 5.2 million and constitute about 20 per cent of the Israeli electorate,” says Arielle. “Because being ‘Jewish’ is defined politically as having one Jewish grandparent, the immigrants are not even secular Jews – they are largely atheists and winning their votes became a hard and dirty struggle.”
“They refuse to assimilate – they run their own Russian-language newspapers, television stations, magazines, schools, bars and restaurants and choose to live separately from the established Israeli communities,” says Arielle. “They are Russians first and foremost; they are allowed dual citizenship; they can return to their homeland any time they please but choose to remain in Israel because they have more political clout and social benefits – particularly healthcare, courtesy of US aid – in their adopted homeland than they do in present Russia.”
“As in all nations with immigrants, there is resentment on both sides but the frequent brawls between Russian and Israeli youth show that this resentment is deep-seated,” explains Arielle. “The Russians have gained reputations as thieves, anti-Semites, alcoholics, prostitutes and racketeers; and the Israelis are slated as being liars for misrepresenting the Israeli-Palestine conflict and enticing Russians to migrate with a false picture of a warm welcome awaiting them in Israel.”
“The immigrants complain that they are treated like second-class citizens, and discriminated against in employment,” adds Arielle. “It’s believed that 65 percent of immigrants with university degrees are either unemployed or forced into casual menial jobs, and coming from Russia – where everyone was working and had tenure of employment – this is a huge complaint, but one that is related more to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the new global economy than to any intrinsic fault of Israel.”
.
“There is a huge cultural gap between the Israelis and the dominant Russian immigrants. Those that suffered hard lives in Russia feel disgust at the easy lives of the Israelis, and those that thought they were escaping the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union are shocked to find Israel an even worse dictatorship disguised as democracy.”
“Although service in the military offers the young immigrants an entry ticket of sorts into Israeli society,” says Arielle, “many refuse to serve and prefer prison. This has led to Israel relying more and more on foreign military forces to fight their wars for them. ”
“The Russian immigrants have definitely made Israel more ‘European’, but in doing so they have also made it less religious. Believing that one Jewish grandparent is enough to be called Jewish, the immigrants who wish to follow the Jewish faith are incensed to find that the rabbis insist that that definition applies only to a person with a Jewish mother. Consequently, Jewish marriages, divorces and burials can be denied.”
“Little wonder, then, that the immigrants have separated and recreated a little Russia within Israel,” says Arielle. “They hold dual citizenship and maintain strong ties with their motherland – ties which allow officials from the former Soviet Union (who once supplied arms to the Arab states, conducted a cold war with the west and denied Jewish citizens the right to emigrate) to be welcomed in Russian immigrant dominated Israel as friends, allies and business partners.”
“The only thing that really glues the Russian immigrants and the Israeli’s together, it appears, is a common hatred or fear of the rising Islamic world and that, perhaps, is the reason why the Israeli government's definition of citizenship eligibility is now so liberal (one Jewish grandparent gets you in). With about 1 million Russians still in the former Soviet Union who qualify for Israeli citizenship – and Avigdor Lieberman eager for his Russian speaking Yisrael Beiteinu party to become the leading political party in Israel – it is likely that he will do his best to entice more Russian immigrants to Israel, and may even drop the Jewish requirement altogether for his Russian compatriots.”
“Russia, along with the US, UN, and EU plays a role in the Arab-Israeli peace process and because the negotiations have become so tortuous and protracted one wonders exactly what is going on,” muses Arielle. “Lieberman, like Netanyahu, believes in Israel’s right to expand settlement in Palestinian territory and won’t budge on Jerusalem and in this respect they are in direct confrontation with the UN, EU and the US – so are we looking at a Russo-Israeli alliance?”
“In dealing with Israel, are we now, in fact, dealing with our old cold war adversaries?”
“Are we so bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan – fighting a war to make Israel safe, sending our youth into the killing fields while Israel and Russia look on, rub their hands and line their pockets – that we fail to see the big picture?”
“What I am suggesting is that the aid we have been giving Israel to support and protect the Holocaust survivors is, instead, supporting and protecting recent Russian immigrants of dubious origin and may one day be used against us.”
See Arielle's other article Netanyahu wants WW3?
and check out:
Age Secrets of Binyamin Netanyahu
Secrets of Avigdor Lieberman's Age
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