To: TobagoJack who wrote (186851 ) 4/23/2022 5:21:59 AM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217828 TJ you will wait until it will be too late. In a previous post I indicated that the telephone call of VP to Fatah leader was suspicious with all the events around it - the results are clear - unrest on the Temple Mount during Ramadan - simple incitement to expand anger in the Muslim world and deflect attention to the crimes committed in Ukraine. Genocide in Ukraine: Putin just gave his tacit approval for more war crimes By Peter Dickinson April 21, 2022atlanticcouncil.org Vladimir Putin has signaled his tacit approval for further Russian war crimes in Ukraine by publicly honoring one of the military units most closely linked to atrocities against Ukrainian civilians. In an April 18 decree , Putin bestowed the honorary “Guards” title on the Russian Army’s 64th Motor Rifle Brigade, which stands accused of committing war crimes in Ukraine. In a note accompanying this mark of recognition, the Russian ruler personally congratulated the brigade on their “courage, selflessness, professionalism, and performance of military duty,” during the invasion of Ukraine. These allusions to military glory are unconvincing, to say the least. In reality, the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade achieved little to be proud of in Ukraine. It was part of Russia’s disastrous north Ukrainian offensive which suffered defeat in the Battle for Kyiv followed by a humiliating retreat back across the border into Belarus. It is therefore safe to say that the brigade did not earn its new title on the battlefield. Instead, the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade’s most notable contribution to the Russian invasion came during its time in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. This previously anonymous satellite town has gained global notoriety in recent weeks as the scene of large-scale Russian atrocities against the civilian population including rape, torture and mass murder. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In another vein - regarding the Jordanians and the West Bank of the Jordan River, I am not supporting the way it is administered with the military an all overpowering entity. Peace could have been fostered there for over 2 generation if the will was there, but it is not on both sides. (remember my little story in Nablus after the 1967 war?) More so in the Hebrew Bible it is clearly written - "God gave you the land to settle" big difference between this interpretation and "God gave you the land to as a present" which mean to own it as it is nowhere written as such in the Hebrew Bible - therefore you settle where is free land and not on land belonging to others. This point is a bit complicated an will explain another time, more so that many Arabs there have Jews as ancestors and where forced by the power of the sword to convert to Islam as where many crusaders within the Kingdom of Jerusalem.