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What is Palestinianism? To know listen to Palestinians, leaders and followers
As with Hitler, Putin and Trump, take them literally and seriously
In his July 2021 screed Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine didn’t exist. The media minions who he ventriloquizes said Ukrainian identity is “a mental illness” to be liquidated.
Seven months later* he launched a genocidal war against Ukraine with mass deportations and mass theft and Russification of Ukrainian children. Here we’ll see how this rhetoric strikingly resembles Palestinianism’s rhetoric about Jews. Let’s start with this Russian sample:
“You can’t make deals with demons! There’s nothing to negotiate…The illness in Ukraine is so far gone that you can’t convince them or negotiate with them. You can’t cure them this way! Only surgery will work there. The only response to these statements by the Nazis is a Solntsepyok [heavy thermobaric rocket launcher].” — Yevgeny Nikiforov, head of the Orthodox Radio Channel “Radonezh” — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 3, 2023)
“These are Russian people, possessed by the devil. We are coming to convince them, not to kill them. But if you don’t want us to change your minds, then we will kill you. We will kill as many of you as we have…
