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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2403)	7/18/2001 9:25:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Follow-up to my Byzantine scenario, ie EU/Israel/Russia alliance: Russian Nationalist Known for Anti-Semitic Remarks Admits Jewish Heritage Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Service Wednesday, July 18, 2001 MOSCOW A few months ago, Vladimir Zhirinovsky refused to stand for a moment of silence in Russia's Parliament to honor Holocaust victims. He also has thrown flowerpots at Jewish protesters in Paris, ranted at "Zionists," demanded that Jews be segregated on reservations and bemoaned a future Russia in which a handful of Jews "seize power" over a country of 145 million. At the same time, the flamboyant Russian ultranationalist was denying his own reported Jewish roots: "It's crazy," he once told reporters. "It's got nothing to do with reality." Now, Mr. Zhirinovsky, 55, has made a dramatic revision in his biography, acknowledging that his father was Jewish and saying that many of his relatives perished in the Holocaust. [snip] iht.com Split personality of a self-hating Jew or... just another instance of "if you can't beat them, fool them..." ?