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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Israel & Palestine: How sincere religious convictions result in Evil deeds & crimes, including against innocent and defenseless women & children.

Israel & Palestine: How sincere religious convictions result in Evil deeds & crimes, including against innocent and defenseless women & children.
 
Greg Krasovsky
October 24, 2023
 
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
   - Blaise Pascal (see more quotes below)
    
Holy war. Jihad.
 
So much spilled blood over "Our G-d", as though The G-D, the Ruler of the Universe with
 
- thousands of known (visible) galaxies,
- millions of stars & planets, and
- billions, if not trillions of species, some intelligent and self-aware (most of the time during their short existence)
 
can be defined, worshiped or belong exclusively to any land, country, race, ethnicity, or religious group of men on our Mother Earth.
 
Yet, during the last four known millennia in the current cycle of human history, "In the name of G-d" millions of people (perhaps even over a hundred million) have
 
- died,
- killed,
- tortured, raped, maimed, beaten,
- kidnapped, enslaved,
- persecuted, excommunicated, disenfranchised, exiled, expelled,
- seized property & land, confiscated or poisoned crops,
 
to preach, spread & entrench their faith and to win over (seize by force or threats whenever necessary) the hearts, minds & souls of other human beings.

Today, in 2023, human beings are still at it, even without mercy for innocent children, women and the elderly!
 
Today, in 2023, when the vast library of human knowledge, including on morality, philosophy, religion and science is available in digital form virtually in every community around the globe thanks to the World Wide Web of the Internet.
 
Today, when smartphones and tablet PCs cost less that TVs and washing machines -- and sometimes even less that bicycles.
 
Nevertheless, we still find even among those with college & university educations people who justify

- their superiority (intellectual, moral, spiritual, cultural, ethnic, racial and even genetic), their elevated legal rights & status, and

- their treatment of other groups as inferior,  

merely based on their faith, on their version of G-d and His supposed preference & protection of their group.

So what's the immediate or eventual result?

Discrimination, persecution, commission terrorist acts, war crimes. crimes against humanity and other abuses of human rights.
 
Why such cognitive dissidence in supposedly intelligent, educated and spiritual men -- including their religious, political, business and cultural leaders?

Easy! The cult of superiority based on mere faith & belief (without real indisputable scientific evidence) has been with us since the Dawn of Time (for humanity) and has seduced entire communities, nations, kingdoms and empires as effectively as alcohol, opium or any other mind-altering compound.

It makes you feel good, if not great--- just as long as you're not on the receiving end of the stick.

And it justifies seizing authority, power, land, property, natural and human resources -- just to make sure that these G-d given things are in the hands of The Right People, i.e. Your People:

- Hindus,
- Buddhists,
- Taoists,
- Zoroastrians,
- Jews,
- Worshipers of ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman & Norse deities,
- Christians,
- Muslims,
- Pagans, and
- Satanists
 
And it justifies punishing others (the non-believers in your version of Deity) all in the name of your G-d.

On the extreme end it justifies the enslavement, sterilization or murder of Their WOMEN -- just to prevent them from giving birth to your spiritual or historic enemies (i.e. competitors).

And it justifies the seizure, enslavement, brainwashing (cultural & religious reprogramming & indoctrination), sterilization, maiming, murder and manslaughter of their CHILDREN -- just to make sure (not to risk) that They don't grow up to fight & resist Your rule & faith and/or avenge the wrongs that Your People committed against Them before (even if decades, hundreds or thousands of years ago).

Is that what we want and support in 2023?

Radical Muslims <-> Radical Jews, like in Israel, Palestine and the rest of The Levant?
 
Hindus <-> Muslims, like in India?

Muslims <-> Christians, like in Iraq, Syria, former Yugoslavia?
 
Buddhists  <-> Muslims, like in Burma (Myanmar)?
 
Catholics  <-> Eastern (Russian Orthodox)  like in Ukraine?
 
Protestants  <-> Catholics like in Northern Ireland?

Christians  <-> Pagans like during the conquest & colonization of The Americas and Africa?

Christians / Pagans <-> Jews, like with Nazi Germany just 80 years ago?
 
Today, from October 7 to October 24, we've seen enough dead & injured civilians, including women and children, who were the victims of

1. Hamas terrorist acts, war crimes & crimes against humanity (against Israelis) on and after 10/07/2023
 
- torturing, killing and kidnapping Israeli civilians, including women and children,
-  torturing, killing and inhumane captivity without access of Israeli soldiers, security & law enforcement personnel against the Rules of War (Geneva conventions and etc.).
- launching unguided / inaccurate rockets into Israeli civilian areas or against civilian targets

2.  Israeli army war crimes and crimes against humanity after 10/07/2023 in retaliation to Hamas' crimes and in an effort to neutralize Hamas (including by destroying their bases, infrastructure and support networks in and under Gaza) with minimum Israeli casualties

- indiscriminate missile strikes, bombing and shelling in the Gaza Strip, leading to massive civilian casualties (at least 40% children)

- failure & refusal to ensure (organize & conduct) a safe evacuation of civilians PRIOR to launching the above strikes, including

-- safe transportation,
-- medical evacuation of wounded,
-- temporary housing with heat, electricity and sewage,
-- temporary medical facilities,
-- food, water and medicine deliveries,
-- temporary educational facilities for children

Location of temporary evacuation facilities?

- Safe areas of the Gaza Strip (in the South),
- areas of Israel adjacent to the Gaza Strip (lots of desert of temporary camps even behind barbed wire), and
- The West Bank (under the Palestinian Authority),

- other countries (only upon the prior agreement of the evacuees and the country in question, like Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria)

Israel's failure to organize and conduct proper & humane evacuation prior to the start of its current anti-terrorist operation has resulted in the negligent / reckless deaths (manslaughter) or intentional deaths & injury (murder) of innocent Palestinian civilians (non-combatants).

Yet today, we hear evil words in the defense of their immoral & criminal actions from both sides of the conflict, Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims.

Today, we hear these hateful words spoken by political and religious leaders on BOTH sides (Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, Persian), as well as  Jewish and Muslim around the world backed up by references from their faiths' holy texts (Torah, Koran) to justify the discrimination, persecution, displacement ethnic cleansing, manslaughter, murder, genocide, other crimes against humanity and war crimes -- INCLUDING AGAINST INNOCENT CHILDREN!  

Now add geopolitical and globalist goals into the mix to control the Middle East and its valuable resources (incl. oil & gas) while exploiting religious fanatics, their religious & political leaders and their governments willingness to go to war, commit terrorist acts, war crimes and heinous crimes against humanity -- all evil things that often benefit, enrich & give more political power & influence to Transnational Financial-Industrial Groups (FIGs) with globalist agendas.

FIGs which control or own -- directly or indirectly (surreptitiously) -- leading members of every Western country's

a. Political Parties, Politicians, elected & appointed government officials and senior civil servants who lead ministries and government, thus allowing these FIGs to control every branch of government (executive, legislative and judicial)
 
b. Military-Industrial Complex (with Domestic Law Enforcement, Security and Foreign Intelligence contracts & interests) that makes money hand over fist from military conflicts, civil strife and even preventable crime,

c. News & Entertainment Media,

d. Educational & Research Institutions and Think Tanks that formulate government & social policies.

e. Non-Profit organizations, including for human rights and humanitarian work domestically and abroad.

FYI, organizations listed in c, d and e above allow, facilitate, aid & abet those transnational & globalist FIGs to
   - do their work in the shadows (control of government policy as described in "a" above)
   - define and limit the narrative, exposure and coverage of history, current events and FIG agendas & activity, and
   - control populations, voters, taxpayers, consumers and security/intelligence/military personnel & contractors necessary for the execution of their plans domestically and abroad through
        -- regime change operations,
        -- domestic & foreign terrorism
        -- domestic civil unrest & civil wars
        -- international military conflicts

As they say, if you're a Satanist, there's no better place to hide than among the religiously fervent & righteous and thrive by surreptitiously seizing religious & political leadership positions to realize your evil plans while citing your commitment to G-d's work to grow and defend "your" flock's (victims) faith by battling your enemies (groups whose land, country and /or resources you want to seize & control).

This is just like Pedophiles hiding and thriving in schools, children's sport and scouting organizations to have authority, credibility, parents' trust and unfettered inconspicuous access to children (to victimize them with impunity).

So let's not allow religion & its tenets to be used to commit human rights violations and crimes against people in general, but especially against women & children.
 
And let's start protecting our (humanity's) women and children today, starting in Israel and Palestine by demanding and putting an immediate end to ALL sides' commission of terrorism, war crimes, crimes against humanity and human rights violations.

Today's "Israel - Hamas War" is a litmus test that cannot be avoided and must be passed to avoid a downward spiral that could end in World War III.
 
Because if today's international community (on a planet with 7+ bilion people, 180+ countries, the UN, EU, NATO, BRICS and etc.) is NOT WILLING OR ABLE to force -- if necessary, by military, economic & political means -- just two small states (Israel and Palestine, the later unrecognized), and several small militant groups (Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, etc.) to
 
- immediately comply with a ceasefire,

- safely evacuate, house, feed and humanely treat civilians from areas of military operations,

- refrain from further criminal acts (terrorism, war crimes & etc.)

then we, as humanity, members and leaders of any of the aforementioned religious groups, have lost our moral & spiritual authority to claim that we are faithful servants of our G-d in His bid to restore in our world love, goodness, compassion and mercy -- the primary attributes of G-d -- so that we come closer to the innocence lost when mankind was expelled from the proverbial Garden of Eden..
 
What do you think?

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 Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
   - Blaise Pascal

Memes, Dreams, Reflections

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Blaise Pascal's other quotes:
 
    All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

    As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

    There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.


    Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

    Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

    If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
 
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/blaise-pascal-quotes

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Blaise Pascal (/pæˈskæl/ pass-KAL, also UK: /-ˈskɑːl, ˈpæskəl, -skæl/ -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, US: /pɑːˈskɑːl/ pahs-KAHL;[3][4][5][6][7] French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

His earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16.

He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.[8][9]

Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial results.

He made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum in 1647.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[10] Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology.

His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits.  

The latter contains Pascal's wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine,[11][12] a fideistic probabilistic argument for God's existence.

In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.

Throughout his life, Pascal was in frail health, especially after the age of 18; he died just two months after his 39th birthday.[13]
...
A programming language is named for Pascal. In 2014, Nvidia announced its new Pascal microarchitecture, which is named for Pascal. The first graphics cards featuring Pascal were released in 2016.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

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Friday, July 1, 2016

75th anniversary of the July 1, 1941 Lviv Pogrom of Jews by Ukrainian Nationalists and Nazi collaborators.

Greg Krasovsky: Sadly, today is the 75th anniversary of the July 1, 1941 Lviv Pogrom of Jews by Ukrainian Nationalists and Nazi collaborators.
May the victims rest in peace and may the perpetrators receive their just punishment in the world and the next.

What's sad and scary is that the current Ukrainian government hails Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and war criminals as heroes who were fighting for Ukrainian independence. 
Apparently, this adopts the Nazi slogan of fighting against the Jewish-Bolshevik menace - including by torturing, raping and killing innocent Jewish and Polish women and children.

This is a moral dead end which will do nothing but lead to the moral decay of modern Ukrainian society and especially its youth. 
Germany has learned the right lessons by acknowledging and condemning the genocide and war crimes that the Nazis committed during World War II against the Jews and other nations. 
  
Unfortunately, modern anti-Russian Ukrainian Nationalists have not repented for the sins of their ancestors and believe that Nazi collaboration and related war crimes were justified by their fight against Stalin's Soviet Union. 
FYI, comrade Joseph Stalin was not a Jew or a Russian - he was a Georgian Bolshevik who had graduated from a Jesuit seminary and, being an anti-Semite himself, successfully purged most Soviet Jewish communists (by imprisonment, exile and execution) until his reign ended in 1952. 
As long as Ukrainian Nationalists and Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera are touted as heroes and their direct participation in the Holocaust is denied, Ukraine will never become the modern European Democracy that its current political leadership claims to hold as its goal to win popular support.
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The Lviv pogroms
By Wikipedia
   
Selected Excerpts:
The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive massacres of Jews living in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists from 30 June to 2 July 1941, and from 25 to 29 July 1941, during the Wehrmacht's attack on Soviet-occupied eastern Poland in World War II. 
The German historian Peter Longerich and the Holocaust Encyclopedia estimate that the first pogrom cost at least 4,000 lives.[1] It was followed by the additional 2,500 to 3,000 arrests and executions in subsequent Einsatzgruppe killings,[2] and culminated in the so-called "Petlura Days" massacre of more than 2,000 Jews, all killed in a one-month span.[1][3] 
Prior to the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and the ensuing Holocaust in Europe, the city of Lviv had the third-largest Jewish population in Poland during the interwar period, which swelled further to over 200,000 Jews as the refugees fled east from the Nazis.[4]
   
Prior to the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and the ensuing Holocaust in Europe, the city of Lviv had the third-largest Jewish population in Poland during the interwar period, which swelled further to over 200,000 Jews as the refugees fled east from the Nazis.[4]
Holocaust scholar and survivor, Filip Friedman from Lviv, uncovered an official Report of the Reich Security Main Office which documented the massacre as follows: "During the first hours after the departure of the Bolsheviks [i.e. the Soviet Army], the Ukrainian population took praisworthy action against the Jews...


About 7,000 Jews were seized and shot by the [Ukrainian] police in retribution for inhuman acts of cruelty [at Brygidki and the other prisons]..." (dated 16 July 1941).[14]
    
The Lviv Pogrom of 1941: The Germans, Ukrainian Nationalists, and the Carnival Crowd
John-Paul Himka

Selected excerpts:
  
Lviv was a multinational city on the eve of World War II. In 1939 Poles formed a slight majority (157,490 of a total population of 312,231, i.e., just over 50 percent), followed by Jews (99,595 or 32 percent) and Ukrainians (49,747 or 16 percent).2 The national composition of the city changed radically during and as a result of the war: the Jews were murdered, the Poles deported, and numerous Russians immigrated.

Before war broke out, Lviv had been in Poland, but from September 1939 until the end of June 1941 it came under Soviet rule and was joined to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It changed hands again on 30 June 1941, when the Germans took the city.

Tuesday 1 July witnessed a full-blown pogrom. For this article I am using Raul Hilberg’s straightforward definition: “What are pogroms? They are short, violent outbursts by a community against its Jewish population.”10 On this day the violence took on a more ritualized form: Jews, men and women, were made to clean the streets; 



Jewish women were singled out for humiliation; and Jews were made to perform various rituals that identified them with communism. The Lviv pogrom of 1941 drew precedents from an earlier pogrom in the city perpetrated in November 1918 by Polish soldiers and civilians; it also adopted tropes and rituals from anti-Jewish actions that occurred elsewhere in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Just as in Lviv in 1918, in Vienna in March 1938, and in various localities in Poland in September 1939, in Lviv in 1941 Jews were forced to clean the streets. The point was to make Jews, who were prominent in the free professions and in business, engage in demeaning physical work. As a Jewish survivor remarked: “What a terribly debasing feeling it was when doctors and professors cleaned the streets with shovels in their hands [...].”11 
According to a teenage girl, Germans and Ukrainians made a neighbour get her toothbrush to clean the street. They also made a Jewish man clean horse manure from the street by putting it in his hat.12 Judging by photographs, gentiles in Lviv found the Jewish cleaners amusing (see Figure 1). To some extent, the pogrom was a carnival.

One of the characteristic features of the pogrom was the maltreatment and humiliation of Jewish women. The scenes at Zamarstyniv street were photographed by a German camera crew;13 there is also a film of the abuse.14 There were some precedents for this in pogroms in Nazi-occupied Poland. 



Women were forcibly undressed in Kraków in December 1939,15 and many members of OUN, and particularly those who were to form the backbone of the Bandera movement, were in Kraków at that time, waiting out the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine; there is no reason to suspect that they took part in these incidents, but they may well have witnessed them. In the Easter season pogrom in Warsaw in 1940 teenagers preyed on women, especially to rob them.16 

A clearer precedent for what happened in Lviv in 1941 is what happened in Lviv in 1918; Joseph Tenenbaum, who was an eyewitness to the 1918 pogrom, wrote: “Women had to disrobe and stand naked to the delight of the crude mob.”17 In Lviv in 1941 women were shoved, kicked, beaten in the face and elsewhere with sticks and tools, pulled by the hair, and tossed from one pogromist to another. 

Many of the women were stripped naked and exposed to the crowd. Some were chased through the street.18 Rose Moskowitz had a school friend who had become an active communist. A gang caught her, cut off her hair, and ran her down the street, naked, screaming. The girl went home and killed herself.19 A Polish rescuer saw “a boy like Hercules” beating a twelve-year old Jewish girl with a chain.20 Not surprisingly, rapes were also reported.

Pregnant women were hit or kicked in the stomach.22 The pogromists stripped a twenty-year-old Jewish woman, lodged a baton in her vagina, and marched her past the post office to the prison action at Lontskoho.23 The women were robbed as well.24 Róża Wagner said she even saw prostitutes with their pimps requisitioning shoes and other items of apparel from the Jewish women.25 The victims were chosen at random, as long as they were Jewish.26



Why did OUN use its militia in Lviv to organize a pogrom and round up Jews for the Germans to kill? Partially, this flowed from the anti-Semitism of the Ukrainian nationalist movement and its leaders. Yet, anti-Semitism does not necessarily translate directly into such violence. 

In fact, OUN seemed to perceive the Poles as much more important enemies than the Jews. In September 1939, when OUN acted openly and took advantage of the civil war conditions created by the Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine, OUN units killed thousands of Poles.  In summer 1941, as the Germans invaded, OUN militias and related organizations were involved in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews, but of relatively few Poles.128 

When the OUN-led Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) definitively broke with the Germans in the late winter/early fall of 1943, it focused its attention on Poles, killing tens of thousands of them. In its official pronouncements, OUN always put Russians at the top of its enemy list. 

Hence the focus on violence against Jews in the first days of the German occupation seems to be somewhat anomalous. The anomaly is most plausibly explained as an attempt by OUN to demonstrate to the Germans that it shared their anti-Jewish perspectives and that it was worthy to be entrusted with the formation of a Ukrainian state.

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists under the leadership of Stepan Bandera provided the engine of the pogrom. It set up a short-lived government in Lviv on 30 June 1941 headed by a vehement anti-Semite. It simultaneously plastered the city with leaflets that encouraged ethnic cleansing. It also formed a militia that assumed a leadership role in the pogrom. 

Militiamen went from apartment to apartment in Jewish neighbourhoods to arrest Jewish men and women for pogrom activities at two of the prisons; they arrested Jews on the street for a third prison that was more distant from where the Jewish population was concentrated. They conveyed the Jews to the prisons and were also present there at the maltreatment and execution of Jews.

The day after the pogrom they began to work directly for the Einsatzgruppen, again arresting Jews for execution by the Germans. OUN co-operated with the Germans in these anti-Jewish actions primarily because it hoped such collaboration would facilitate German recognition of its state. OUN’s anti-Semitism made assistance in anti-Jewish violence palatable, but it is unlikely that it was an independent factor in the decision to stage a pogrom.



As to the crowd, which is what made the pogrom a pogrom, its interest was in carnival. It relished role reversal, upturning the social hierarchy—Jewish professionals on their hands and knees cleaning streets. Those who were perceived as having been in charge during the Soviet occupation were now humiliated and forced to admit their guilt in ritualistic spectacles. 

The stinking corpses of murdered political prisoners seemed to justify an apocalyptical revenge against the perceived perpetrators, namely the Jewish population. A particular conjuncture of high politics allowed the urban crowd to act out an uninhibited script of robbery, sexual assault, beating, and murder, demanding these actions and delighting in them.
  

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Ukraine Seeks Ways to Recall Its Jewish Heritage.

Ukraine Seeks Ways to Recall Its Jewish Heritage.

Greg Krasovsky: Ukraine cannot honor properly & sincerely Ukrainian Jews brutally tortured & killed during the Holocaust while at the same time calling and worshiping as heroes Ukrainian Nazis (like the SS Division Galicia) and Nazi collaborators (like Stepan Bandera and OUN-UPA members and Ukrainian Nazi occupation Politzei) who actively participated in the Holocaust.
Selected Excerpts:
"The fall of the Iron Curtain and reopening to the West spurred some countries in the region to re-examine their history and to preserve and rebuild remnants of their Jewish heritage.

In Poland, commemoration of the Holocaust started with relatively small projects before mushrooming with the help of the Jewish diaspora, said Sofia Dyak, director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv.

Such projects are spreading now in Ukraine as well, supported in part by public and private donors such as the American Jewish Committee and the German government.
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Around one million Jews were killed during World War II on the territory that is now Ukraine. The Soviets largely ignored the genocidal nature of the Holocaust, referring to its victims generically as “Soviet citizens” and “civilians.”

After independence in 1991, Ukraine concentrated on reviving previously taboo national narratives, such as the fighters widely seen as heroes here for resisting the Russians and the Poles. But some of those Ukrainian nationalists also collaborated with the Nazi German invaders and were involved in the killing of Jews.

A few Ukrainian fighting units and parties today have adopted nationalist insignia and flags, which Russia uses to tar the Kiev government as a whole.

“Without having a clear history, people distort it,” said Yaakov Dov Bleich, a leading rabbi in Ukraine. “No one [in Ukraine] respects nationalists because they killed Jews, but because they fought for independent Ukraine."