Empty Promise of "Never Again" Both Israel/Germany Have Bloodied Hands
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| Bucha, Ukraine |
Publisher Adamfoxie
What does the world's pledge to "Never Again" permit massacres or genocide mean?
At the beginning of the invasion of Russia to their smaller neighbor on their border, Ukraine, Israel a friend to the US and NATO said they wanted to be in the middle to negotiate a stop to the invasion. There are no negotiations just the bombing of civilians. Where are you now Israel?
When Putin invaded, right away Germany packed hundreds of head gear to Ukraine. I guess they could be used by Ukrainians to crush the invader's heads but they would need the artillery to do so and they have really good ones stashed away.. Later on, after much criticism, Germany send some military weapons which were great but not enough, of all the NATO nations that made promises. Germany is at the bottom of the pack.
Why? Did Germany kill millions of people for the same reasons Russia is killing women children and the elderly? Never mind their youth and men who are fighting on the front. So what is the problem? The problem! It seems to be monetary. First of all NATO nations, Germany was the closest to Russia not just in distance but in trade. Putin and all their Chancellors were great buddies. They were even full of gas and building pipes to channel it. Germany believes that. when Ukraine beats the Russians they can come with clean hands to do business with Russia. They don't want to be accused of pilling up against them. If the Russians win, then the same reasons apply.
Israel is just as sad. Always talking about the 6 million Jews and never again. Well, they are going to have to add the thousands and possibly millions of Ukrainians dead because they did nothing or very little like Russia. If I was a jew I would be shame but I don't hear any Jews protesting about that. They are SILENCED, another word they love to use.
Both nations owed the world and Ukraine an explanation and repentance for their sins They have turned their head not to see what Putin is doing. Putin was doing. They should know what the Russian people, including their soldiers, are finding out now, Putin does anybody. For him, there are no Russians or Ukrainians. Only his plans and whoever opposes them do not deserve to live in the same world as him. TODAY Both Germany and Israel Should REMEMBER Bucha, Kharkiv, Mariupo, and others to come.
The family of Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova reported her death to the world this week. She was 91 years old, "a kind, joyous woman, a special person who will forever remain in our hearts," said her Rabbi, Mendel Cohen — the only rabbi in the city of Mariupol, which has been under relentless attack for weeks.
But both Vanda's early years and last days were marked by tragedy and savagery.
She was ten years old in 1941 when Nazi soldiers rolled into Mariupol and began rounding up the city's Jews. The SS took away her mother. Young Vanda hid in the basement.
"She couldn't scream; that's what saved her," Vanda's daughter, Larissa, who has just been safely evacuated from Ukraine, told the website for the Jewish organization Chabad.
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German troops executed more than 9,000 Jewish people in shallow ditches outside Mariupol in October of 1941. Vanda's mother and her family were among those thousands.
Eventually, Vanda was detained. But her father, who was not Jewish, and family friends were able to convince the Nazis that the little girl was Greek. She spent two years hiding in a hospital, until the Soviet Red Army reached Mariupol in 1943.
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was 91 years old when Vladimir Putin's Russian army began to shell the city. Decades after the Holocaust she survived, Vanda and her family had to take shelter in another basement.
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"There was no water, no electricity, no heat," her daughter said. "There was nothing we could do for her. We were living like animals. ... Every time a bomb fell, the entire building shook."
Larissa and her family stayed at her mother's side. But she was cold, thirsty, hungry, fragile, and too weak to stand. Her daughter says she kept asking, "why is this happening?"
"Mama didn't deserve such a death," Larissa told Chabad. She says she and her husband buried Vanda in a public park, with help from neighbors. As Rabbi Mendel Cohen put it, "the whole Mariupol has turned into a cemetery."
At least one other Holocaust survivor was reportedly killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a 96-year-old man who had survived four Nazi concentration camps but died in the Russian shelling of Kharkiv. This week, satellite images reported around the world revealed what seem to be mass graves near Mariupol, big enough to bury thousands of people.
Whether in Bosnia, Rwanda, Xinjiang, Bucha, Kharkiv, or Mariupol, "Never Again" seems to happen again and again.
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