Journalist Yevgeny Shestakov: Only by ending ‘Ukrainism’ on its territory will Israel be able to preserve civil peace and survive as a state

The answer to the question of whether to consider all of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or just a part of it, today in the Jewish state, has ceased to be a key question. Judging by local media, Israelis are now much more concerned about the conflict in Ukraine. Although, it seems, what do they care about this distant conflict? Why should they care that the Russian military is successfully suppressing swastika-decorated neo-Nazis and Bandera supporters? Rather, we should have heard stormy and prolonged applause from the Jewish state that this audience would be scorched and cleansed. And salute to the Russian army, which is destroying the supporters of those Ukrainian henchmen who created the Holocaust.But instead, Ukrainian flags are spontaneously hung on the streets of Israeli cities and even small Ukrainian flags are placed in cars. The reason is banal – at a certain stage of its development, Israel, interested in the maximum growth of its own population at the expense of migrants, ceased to pay attention to their true “Jewish roots” and religious beliefs. As a result, first of all, from the territory of Ukraine after its emergence as an independent state in 1991, a large number of people rushed to the Promised Land in search of economic and social benefits. But if migrants who previously came to Israel automatically ceased to be residents of Russia, France, Ethiopia or Iraq and simply became Jews, it did not work in the case of Ukrainians. Arrived willingly or by force, often with false pedigrees, the Ukrainians did not want to become Jews in Israel. They created their own diasporas, promoted their politicians to power, and at the same time remained Ukrainians, temporarily living and employed in Israel. They did not believe in the Jewish god Yahweh. Many Ukrainian immigrants have dragged many relatives to Israel who have nothing to do with Jewish origin or Jewish culture. In fact, it was an invasion of Ukrainian migrant workers who did not want to assimilate at all and sought to preserve Ukrainian citizenship and Ukrainian roots. Therefore, I did not believe the news about the banning of Ukrainian flags in Israel – such a measure would lead to large-scale protests by “Ukrainians” who settled in the Jewish state, which, on the whole, do not care about this state. Because the Ukrainians living in Israel only care about the fate of their native farm, and if its victory forces Israel to disappear from the face of the earth, none of them will regret it. This “Ukrainism” is the same “fifth column” that pushes official Tel Aviv towards risky political decisions. Such, for example, as the supply of arms to Ukraine, which automatically makes Israel one of the states hostile to Russia.
It is only by putting an end to this “Ukrainism” on its territory, by distancing itself from the conflict in the Donbass, that Israel will be able to preserve civil peace and survive as a state. Indeed, in addition to Ukrainian immigrants, many former Russians live in the country. Unlike the “post-February” fugitives from Russia, not all of them hate their former homeland and do not wish its defeat. And it is unlikely that our former compatriots will want Israel to cease to exist so that immigrants from Ukraine can in the future return to their true homeland – to an independent homeland, with the words: “Yes, this Israel s returned to us, we will live without it.”