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World Jewish News
Shenderovich to "friend Bykov": "Israel survives among cannibals"
12.04.2009
On March 23, the Russian business magazine "Profile", issued in circulation of 83 thousand copies and addressed to the "Russian politicians, businessmen, senior managers, the financial elite of the country," published an article by Michael Maikov called "March of the Impotent."
The author, analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the outcome of the "Cast Lead" anti-terrorist operation in Gaza (erroneously called "Molten Lead"), condemned Israel for the "policy of concessions," and Europe for "leftist virtues." According to Maikov, the Europeans commit a fatal error by failing to understand the fact that by fighting Islamic extremism, Israel is fighting not only for its own, but also for their future.
The answer to Michael Maikov became an article of the deputy chief editor of the "Profile" magazine, the famous writer Dmitry Bykov. (Note that the articles by Maikov and Bykov were published on the site as a single material: article by Dmitry Bykov begins with the words "Do not stick to!" - Ed.)
Bykv begins by stating that it is difficult for him to imagine himself living in Israel, because he does not belong to the people, "who consider themselves right because of national and religious identity." Bykov said: "Israel has been driving itself to a dead end since the country's creation."
According to Bykov, Mikhail Maikov and his supporters, having no reason for this, "urge on Europe to engage in the Arab-Israeli war". Meanwhile, "no Judeo-Christian civilization (and even more so the culture) is fighting through Israel with the terrible and anti-civilized Arab world. Two Middle Eastern nations, equally cruel and implacable, are fighting with each other... There are no civilians in the Arab-Israeli conflict."
"Israel is not protecting me," said Dmitry Bykov. "Israel is not defending my values, and should not count on me as its potential supporter. The argument 'after us they will deal with you' has long ago moved into anecdotes. When this happens, then we will see. But then, at least we will have full right [to act]..."
Today, on April 8, at "Daily Journal" site, the writer Viktor Shenderovich commented on the same topic, directly referring to the "friend Bykov."
Stressing that he has no doubts in the honesty of the position of "Dmitry Lvovich", Shenderovich said that the desire to stand above the battle is not always justified: "When you the Nazis killing an Asian on the train... you must stand up and try to prevent the bloodshed."
The conflict of Israel, which seeks to "survive among cannibals", and "Khamas Palestine", which is a challenge to European consciousness, is seen by Shenderovich as follows: "There is a civilization which spreads leaflets over the positions of the enemy, urging civilians to leave in advance. And there is another, which puts "Kassams" in the middle of a school, so that more of their children die in retaliatory strikes, in the name of their next hate."
"I am with those who are threatened to be destroyed, along with their children, for their belonging to a people - no matter which people, my Judaism has nothing to do with it," stresses Victor Shenderovich.
His open letter to Bykov is finished in the following way: "There is no paradise on Earth, my friend Bykov, but there is more then enough hell, and politics deals precisely with the degree of remoteness from hell. This, it seems to me, should become the starting point for any assessment by a normal human being."
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