{"id":258833,"date":"2022-09-19T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258833"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:05:53","slug":"zelensky-and-nato-plan-to-transform-post-war-ukraine-into-a-big-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258833","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky and NATO plan to transform post-war Ukraine into \u2018a big Israel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Rubinstein \u2013 The GrayZone Sept 17, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The NATO-backed Atlantic Council has proposed apartheid Israel as a blueprint for a hyper-militarized Ukraine. The paper was authored by Obama\u2019s former ambassador to Tel Aviv, now an Israeli spy-tech consultant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just forty days after Russia\u2019s military campaign began inside Ukraine, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky told reporters that in the future, his country would be like \u201ca big Israel.\u201d The following day, one of Israel\u2019s top promoters in the Democratic Party published an op-ed in NATO\u2019s official think tank exploring how that could be executed.<\/p>\n

Zelensky made his prediction while speaking to reporters on April 5, rejecting<\/a> the idea that Kiev would remain neutral in future conflicts between NATO, the European Union, and Russia. According to Zelensky, his country would never be like Switzerland (which coincidentally abandoned<\/a> its Napoleon-era tradition of nonalignment by sanctioning Russia in response to its February invasion).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot talk about \u2018Switzerland of the future,\u2019\u201d the president informed reporters. \u201cBut we will definitely become a \u2018big Israel\u2019 with its own face.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those wondering what a \u201cbig Israel\u201d would actually look like, Zelensky quickly elaborated on his disturbing prophecy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not be surprised that we will have representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in all institutions, supermarkets, cinemas \u2014 there will be people with weapons,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s president said, predicting a bleak existence for his citizens. \u201cI am sure that our security issue will be number one in the next ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the web post was based on comments Zelensky made to reporters, the president\u2019s office mysteriously excised a section of his remarks<\/a> in which he declared a future Ukraine would not be \u201cabsolutely liberal, European.\u201d Instead, along with his vision for a heavily militarized Ukraine, the post emphasized Zelensky\u2019s readiness to join NATO \u201calready tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

For NATO\u2019s power brokers, however, Zelensky\u2019s intimated willingness to join the military alliance was perhaps the least remarkable aspect of his statement. Instead, within 48 hours of his comments, the Atlantic Council \u2013 NATO\u2019s semi-official think tank in Washington \u2013\u00a0published a \u201croad map\u201d exploring how to transform Ukraine into \u201ca big Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authored by Daniel B. Shapiro, the former US Ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama, the document posited that \u201cthe two embattled countries share more than you might think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig presented Israel<\/a> as \u201cthe largest American air craft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk,\u201d Shapiro put forward a vision of Ukraine as a hyper-militarized NATO bastion whose national identity would be defined by its ability to project US power against Russia.<\/p>\n

Israel and Ukraine: \u201cold, loyal friends\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Despite Israel\u2019s reluctance to join the Western sanctions campaign against Russia, it has aided Ukraine\u2019s militarily, sending two<\/a> large shipments of defensive equipment since February of this year. In the past, however, Israel\u2019s support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia has been more than defensive.<\/p>\n

Back in 2018, over 40 human rights activists petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice to stop arming Ukraine after members of the neo-nazi Azov Battalion were caught brandishing Israeli-made weapons. As Israel\u2019s Ha\u2019aretz noted<\/a> at the time, \u201cThe militia\u2019s [Azov] emblems are well-known national socialist ones. Its members use the Nazi salute and carry swastikas and SS insignias\u2026 One militia member said in an interview that he was fighting Russia since Putin was a Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelensky, a Ukrainian Jew, was apparently unperturbed by Israel\u2019s alleged arming of Nazi elements in his country. One year after his 2019 election, he made a pilgrimage<\/a> to Jerusalem to launch what he called a \u201cprayer for peace,\u201d and to attend an event entitled<\/a> \u201cRemember the Holocaust to fight anti-Semitism.\u201d Ahead of the junket, Zelensky heaped praise on Israeli society, remarking in an interview<\/a> that \u201cJews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains,\u201d and that Israelis are a \u201cunited, strong, powerful people. And despite being under the threat of war, they enjoy every day. I\u2019ve seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Happy Birthday, @netanyahu<\/a>! I wish you and all the Jewish people good health and the strength to face all the challenges of the rapidly-changing world. At a time like this, old loyal friends are more valuable than ever. #Ukraine<\/a> and #Israel<\/a> have a friendship such as this. pic.twitter.com\/jhonXgiqAl<\/a><\/p>\n

— \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) October 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n