What can one say about Europe? I imagine that if one wants to be bitterly truthful then one could easily say that Hitler has in effect triumphed. He branded the Jews as the root of all troubles and proclaimed that the „final“ and only solution to the „Jewish problem“ was to eradicate all Jews from the face of the earth. And as we all know, he followed through on his genocidal program. A great deal of Europe, its leaders, intellectuals and common folk, willfully and almost gleefully cooperated in this genocide. Many did so actively while many more Europeans did so passively. Once the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed after the war ended, this irrational and pathological…

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It will be interesting to see what if anything Israel can or will do to defend those Jews who still live in Ukraine.

Whatever the future of the Ukraine will be, it should be obvious that there really is no Jewish future possible there. It is perplexing and fascinating at one and the same time to witness how the Lord is staging this drama for us in this season of the year.

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#Ukraine’s odious debts

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Russia wants Ukraine to pay for gas in advance. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-pays-second-tranche-of-gas-debt-to-russia/26759335.html

Meeting of the Contact group on #Ukraine just finished in #Minsk. Reps of DPR, LPR,OSCE,Russia & Kiev were present. Issued no statements

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66 years ago today the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of #Genocide passed unanimously http://www.auschwitzinstitute.org/commemoration-genocide-convention/ …

UN: In 2014, Israel displaced c. 1,000 Palestinians with house demolitions in the West Bank/E Jerusalem http://bit.ly/1ziJU87  via @benabyad

“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” – P.J. O’Rourke http://onforb.es/1FPmAzf

Welcome to Bethlehem, where Palestinian Santas are tear-gassed http://i100.io/WzwUitj 

Yaghma Fakhshami journo w #Iran daily Ruzan arrested 2 days after Ruzan was suspended over story on dissident cleric http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2014/12/141225_l45_yaghma_fashkhami_roozan_arrest …

Essay: literature from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars & a new generation of veteran-writers: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/books/human-costs-of-the-forever-wars-enough-to-fill-a-bookshelf.html …

The new #ArmsTreaty also targets corruption. Here are the riskiest places for arms deals. #ATT http://government.defenceindex.org/ 

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