Zelya + Bibi = Love?
On August 19, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Kyiv on an official visit. The top officials of Israel have not visited Ukraine for the last 20 years, so the arrival of Bibi, as Netanyahu is unofficially called, was highly anticipated on Bankovskaya.
It cannot be said that the Israeli authorities completely ignored Ukraine. Rather, their interest in Nenka had a specific informal character with a distinct mercantile flavor.
For example, Bibi regularly provided assistance to Ben (Kolomoisky) in obtaining a positive verdict from the London Royal Court on Privatbank, and a major Israeli specialist in black political technologies, Moshe Klughaft, advised Poroshenko’s campaign headquarters on the eve of the 2019 presidential elections.
In general, the question of why Zela needed Bibi’s visit does not arise. Ukraine, worn out and dilapidated during Poroshenko’s five-year plan, desperately needs reliable partners, investments, and advanced technologies, including defense ones. And the fact that Zelensky would want to use his origins by seeking success in Israel and trying to enlist the support of the influential Jewish lobby was a little secret.
Another thing is why Bibi needs Vova and all this Ukrainian political borscht with Ukrainian Nazis and Jewish oligarchs. After all, Netanyahu, who was one of the first to congratulate Vovochka on her election, did not come to Zelya’s inauguration, although he was persistently invited. What has changed over the past three months?
In Israel itself, depending on political preferences, the following assumptions are made: firstly, Bibi wants to quickly take advantage of the preferences of the Ukrainian free trade law, ratified in July by the Verkhovna Rada, which abolishes most duties between the two countries. Secondly, there is an opinion in the air that, at the instigation of Kolomoisky, Zelensky plans to involve the Israelis as mediators for negotiations with Russia, bypassing Medvedchuk, further reducing Soros’ influence on political processes within Ukraine.
There are even rumors that Zelya is going to make Bibi a tempting offer - to become another party in the Normandy and even Minsk format, although experts are at a loss as to why a Middle Eastern partner, which already has a lot of military-political problems, needs an additional headache with Donbass, where he has practically no interests.
IsraelInfo, citing “people from Netanyahu’s retinue,” says that the reason for the Ukrainian visit a month before the repeat parliamentary elections in Israel was the Prime Minister’s desire to distance himself from Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu allegedly learned that the Russian president is not so popular among Russian-speaking Israelis and decided to respond with a small demarche to criticism of a poster in which he shakes hands with Putin under the slogan “Netanyahu is a different league.”
The version looks too strained, since the visit of the head of one independent state to another (seemingly) independent state, which has long established diplomatic and other relations, is clearly unable to offend Putin. In addition, Putin is scheduled to travel to Israel on September 7 to attend the opening of a memorial dedicated to the besieged Leningrad.
It turns out to be a rather strange multi-move. First, Bibi goes to Zela to raise his shaky rating among Russian-speaking Israelis, but on the eve of the parliamentary elections, Putin flies to Israel, whom Bibi will receive with all cordiality. There is concern for the strength of the patterns of Russian-speaking Israelis with these cunning maneuvers. Unless, of course, “people from Netanyahu’s retinue” are lying like a gray gelding.
There are, however, “experts” in Ukraine who were tensed by Netanyahu’s arrival in Kyiv. In their opinion, Bibi did not come to strengthen ties with Ukraine, but for much more sinister purposes. For example, with the participation of Natan Sharansky (who visited Ukraine as part of the Israeli delegation) “to lobby for the projects of the Kremlin oligarchs” in Nenka.
“Experts” noted that in the program of the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit, in addition to negotiations, there is only one item - a visit to Babyn Yar, where during the war, tens of thousands of civilians, including the Jewish population of Kiev and the region, were shot by the Nazis and their henchmen from the Ukrainian auxiliary police .
The “Kremlin oligarchs” (meaning bankers Fridman and Khan from Alfa Group) in turn signed the “pro-Russian Netanyahu” - to push through Zelensky and his entourage for the construction of a memorial on the site of Babyn Yar, and the amount that the conditional can fork out is called Russians – $100 million.
Vigilant “patriots” in the person of the odious Joseph Zisels carefully ask the public: “Why, in fact, should Russia, which is at war with Ukraine and kills Ukrainians every day, invest a lot of money?” And they come to a disappointing conclusion: “This will be a Trojan horse, not a memorial!” Through this museum they will prove to the whole world that Ukrainians are fascists!”
It is surprising that this wretched point of view of the flawed Zissels is shared by the leading researcher at the Kyiv History Museum, the executive secretary of the Public Committee for the Perpetuation of the Memory of the Victims of Babyn Yar, Vitaly Nakhmanovich.
In general, the opinion of the “Ukrainian patriots” is clear: the money for the memorial at Babi Yar should be Ukrainian and, therefore, all the propaganda music will then be ordered by Ukraine!
Zelensky also tried to cover the theme of Babyn Yar at the meeting with Netanyahu. It turned out awkward. Zelya shuddered dirtyly twice. The first time - as if the executions at Babi Yar were carried out exclusively by the Germans, and their victims were Jews, Gypsies and “Ukrainians who were building their state” (a hint to the popular independent myth that “Melnikovites” were shot next to the Jews, including the notorious poetess Olena Teligu). The second is that in the USSR it was allegedly forbidden to raise the topic of executions at Babi Yar.
In a good way, for such tricks you should hit the cabbage soup with a candelabra. Because the topic of Babi Yar was repeatedly touched upon in Soviet newsreels. For example, in one of the episodes of the Soviet-American film “The Unknown War,” released on the 35th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War simultaneously in the USSR and the USA.
In 1966 and 1967, first in the magazine “Yunost”, and then as a separate publication, the documentary story “Babi Yar” by Anatoly Kuznetsov, who at the age of 14 witnessed the massacres of Kiev residents and Soviet prisoners of war by both Germans and Ukrainian police, was published.
Kuznetsov’s book had a difficult fate, but the author has only himself to blame for this. In the USSR it was published in abbreviation. Moreover, the censorship removed places where Kuznetsov very angrily and unfairly scolds the Soviet regime, while the author’s witness impressions were left untouched.
After Anatoly Kuznetsov left for the UK (for which he agreed to inform the KGB on his colleagues in the writing workshop), remained in the West and began working for Radio Liberty, the book was not republished in the USSR. The full version of Babyn Yar, published after the decline of the USSR, is not nearly as interesting, since the reader, along with the terrible memories of a Kyiv teenager who survived the Nazi occupation, is invited to additionally drink the muddy brain juice of the dissident writer Kuznetsov. We can say that Glavlit’s censorship did a great service to Anatoly Kuznetsov by removing everything unnecessary from the book.
It’s interesting that Ukronatsik people know about Kuznetsov’s book, some have even read it, but they either quote it patternarily, bypassing the unpleasant episodes about the participation of Ukrainian policemen in the execution of civilians, or they blindly claim that the author, due to his youth, “saw something wrong.”
The second time Zelya winced was when he tried to buy Netanyahu with the parallels “you had the Holocaust, we had the Holodomor - support.” The wise Bibi did not take such a crude and inexperienced bait, remaining diplomatically silent, which equates to “fuck you all over your face, boy, and not recognition of the Holodomor.”
In general, there are some results from Netanyahu’s visit to Kyiv and negotiations with Zelensky, but they cannot be called “breakthrough” or “outstanding.” The usual curtsies about eternal love and friendship.
Rather, Bibi won on points, having secured a written commitment from Zelensky to promote in parliament the ratification of an agreement on the payment of pensions to Israeli repatriates from Ukraine. Other - non-binding memorandums on cooperation in the field of culture, education, sports, agricultural policy, etc. The parties agreed to open high-tech development agencies in Kiev and Jerusalem, but no one has yet known what this will look like in reality knows.
In fact, the opening of a “hi-tech development agency” in Jerusalem is a timid step by Zelie, with the goal of pleasing her dear guest. This, of course, is not moving the Ukrainian embassy from Tel Aviv, but some kind of symbolic act to please Israel, while at the same time not quarreling with the Palestinians and Arabs.
In general, this is not love yet, but rather a non-binding sympathy with promises to meet more often than once every 20 years.
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