“Is Vladimir Putin Another Adolf Hitler?”, asks Paul Johnson at Forbes. Yesterday, I wrote, “The verdict is out on that,” when I linked to the piece. Mea culpa — I wrote that before seeing this headline, from Bridget Johnson (no relation, to the best of my knowledge to the Modern Times author) at the PJ Tatler: “Chilling: East Ukraine Jews Ordered to Register with Pro-Russia Authorities.”
Bridget writes:
Israel’s Ynet News is reporting on a chilling flier given to Jews in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk, ordering them to register with the local authorities:
A leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine calling for all Jews over 16 years old to register as Jews marred the Jewish community’s Passover festivities Monday (Passover eve), replacing them with feelings of concern.
The leaflet demanded the city’s Jews supply a detailed list of all the property they own, or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportion and see their assets confiscated.
Ace of Spades was initially skeptical of the authenticity of leaflets:
Unless those distributing the leaflets think Jews Control The World and hence that any perceived threat to Ukraine’s Jewry would result in NATO storming in to repel the Russian insurgents.
Which is its own issue.
Update: I needn’t have been as skeptical as I was. They’re real.
From USAToday:
The leaflets bore the name of Denis Pushilin, who identified himself as chairman of “Donetsk’s temporary government,” and were distributed near the Donetsk synagogue and other areas, according to the report.Pushilin acknowledged the flyers were distributed by his organization but he disavowed their content, according to the web site Jews of Kiev, Ynet reported…
So Pushilin says he doesn’t agree with the order, but acknowledges his men are in fact ordering Jews to register.
Jesus wept.
And Barry and Joe took selfies:
Putin & al Qaeda are on the march & Iran is getting the bomb, and the “pals” are taking selfies. RT @WhiteHouse Pals. pic.twitter.com/52CAlA4XwF
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) April 17, 2014
As Johnson wrote at Forbes:
What’s to stop Putin? The West is led by the modern equivalents of Chamberlain: President François Hollande of France is a political nonentity repudiated by his own compatriots; Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany have both ruled out the use of force to stop Putin from annexing Ukraine; and worst of all, President Barack Obama–the one man who has the power to stop Putin in his tracks–does nothing. He makes Neville Chamberlain seem like a bellicose activist.
Exit Tweet:
@MonicaCrowley @WhiteHouse That’s w/ happens when a community organizer is voted into the most important job in the world. Over his Paygrade
— Joel Barros (@Joelbarros75) April 17, 2014
With this, I give you peace — and selfies — in our time.
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