Author: Ravid Gor, May 10, 2017
Translated by Eugenia
May 10 of 2010 was the day when the first in the chain of events occurred that led me to the decision to forever link my life with Russia.
That was when the most popular radio host in Israel, Nava Kohen, declared to the whole country at 8 am via the state radio station Radio Israel, talking about the parade marking the 65th anniversary of the victory over fascism at the Red Square:
“We know full well that Medvedev’s attempt to re-write history by inviting the Allies to the parade is doomed to failure. We know who contributed most to the defeat of Nazi Germany. That was not Russia.”
I began to understand something back then, but I had yet to appreciate the full scale of the anti-Russian campaign in the world.
The next warning came on May 2, 2014, when many of those I considered friends in Israel started joking about “the smell of burnt “vata” (“vata” – Russian for “cotton” – derogatory name for people in the south-east of Ukraine whose native language is Russian and who consider themselves belonging to the Russian cultural sphere; in this case, the reference is to the events of May 2nd of 2014 in Odessa when 48 such people were burned alive in the Trade-Union Building – translator’s note). That was the first time I felt foreign in my own country. I learned new unexpected things about former compatriots now living in Israel who were born in the USSR and speak Russian.
That same summer, I learned from conversations with various people that the events in Ukraine were well known to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, that its representatives in May of 2014 visited the front lines near Kramatorsk and Odessa that still smelled of burning. They sent reports to everyone who wanted to know, but one could not hope that inhumane actions of new powers in Kiev would be condemned.
The third key date for me was January 8 of 2016. It was my second interrogation in the counter-intelligence division of Shabak (the Israel Security Agency, also known as Shin Bet – translator’s note) on the 32nd floor of a high-rise opposite the General Staff in Tel Aviv. There was a secret elevator, access from the other building. There was an empty room with a table, two chairs, computer, and a telephone. There were 6 hours of conversation-interrogation with no emotional pressure, but I heard words that changed my consciousness forever.
A middle-aged severe-looking special services investigator said something that changed a lot of things for me: “Ukraine is not a hostile power for Israel. In contrast, Russia is a hostile to Israel power, and our job is to counter Russian actions in Israel. You act as a Kremlin agent of influence, and that is why you are here.”
The last key event that changed my life happened exactly one year ago. On May 10, 2016, I was sitting in a Shabak interrogation room, plastered all over with the sensors of lie detector. Four days before that, I asked a Russian Knesset deputy during a personal meeting whether she wants to comment on the threats against the organizer of Immortal Regiment in Israel. This deputy, who just came from the Immortal Regiment demo in Haifa, where she was shown at the head of the column by Russian TV, responded that she does not know anything about the Immortal Regiment. Next day I got a phone call from an undisclosed number and was summoned for an interrogation.
Closer to the end of that hard day of May 10th, the interrogator said in passable Russian: “You are Russian, and you will always remain Russian first, Israeli second. Therefore, from our prospective, you are a potential traitor. You will always be potential traitor. Now confess, when were you recruited.”
By that time I knew at least ten names of former officers and commanders of Israel Defense Force (IDF) who trained the Ukrainian National Guard and volunteer battalions killing Russians in Donbass. Without any fear of Israeli special services, they gave interviews to Israeli and Ukrainian media, were socially active in Israel, and often flew between Kiev and Jerusalem. I have never heard about them being interrogated even once or persecuted in any way, despite the fact that this kind of activity is a criminal offence in Israel.
Knowing that, and having heard the words that the interrogator said to me… All this after living in Israel for 19 years, after serving in the IDF during Intifada, after three years of being a state servant, after burying three friends killed in combat, after 12 years of serving in the reserve without reproach, after many years of voluntary mission to create positive image of Israel among Russians that I undertook out of patriotism.
It is hard to find words to describe how I felt. I would no longer have a chance for a prestigious job with such a mark in my dossier and would have to live under constant surveillance. Add to that strange behavior of my smartphone and computer, constant fear and the need to pay exorbitant fees to the lawyer. This was my reward for the 19 years of love for my new homeland.
Finally, I have come to understand my place in life and made the only possible decision, which turned out to be correct: to do everything possible to get Russian citizenship, come back to the homeland newly acquired upon the return of Crimea to Russia, and link my destiny with it.
As soon as I made that decision, everything started working out for me. As if I stopped swimming against the current, stopped fighting my destiny.
Having moved to Russia, I met lots of people who share my values, with whom I speak the same language. There were always few of those in Israel. I stuck to values instilled in me by my parents, by Soviet books, by the Soviet school and Soviet TV. Neither the life in post-Soviet Ukraine, nor the life in capitalist Israel erased these values. As I found out, there are many people like me in Russia – so far. It is happiness to live where many people think like you, value what you value, see good and bad like you do. Many, too many, people do not understand this simple thing.
Exactly one year ago I was deeply unhappy and was preparing for a dismal life. When yesterday I was looking at the fireworks to mark the anniversary of the Victory Day in a crown of celebrating people, I felt one with the Russian people and the whole country.
I was happy.
I wish all emigrants who do not feel comfortable where they are, to experience what I experienced yesterday.
Source: https://www.nalin.ru/ispoved-emigranta-ko-dnyu-pobedy-5484
Perhaps the following line should be said to all Jews in interrogation rooms of Christian countries:
“You are a Jew, and you will always remain a Jew first, one of us, second. Therefore, from our prospective, you are a potential traitor. You will always be potential traitor. Now confess, when were you recruited.”
In fact Jonathan Pollard said something similar at his sentencing hearing: “I am a jew and as a jew my first allegiance is to the state of Israel. ”
How long will the Goyim go on acting stupid?
A deeply moving life-story, I’m glad that you found back to happiness in your life.
“It is happiness to live where many people think like you, value what you value, see good and bad like you do.”
At my now 66 years I believe this is fundamental and if you are unable to move geographically, wherever is your home, you can connect here, at the saker, and have some virtual home and share values…
Cheers from southern France
You read something like this and you realize: not all is lost!
I guess Ukrainians are good goyim. To quote Ovadia Yosef Chief Rabbi of Israel:
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
http://www.azquotes.com/author/30007-Ovadia_Yosef
Everything lines up from Tel Aviv to D.C. to Kiev. Israeli-Jew-Nazi (I call these Russophobes Khazarians, from wherever.)
Their obsession is Russia, their hatred is for Orthodox Christianity, their malevolence is against Slavs, and their covetousness is for the natural resources of Mother.
They used Communism for 72 years, Liberalism for 25 years, meanwhile using Wahhabis in the Caucasus and Afghanistan to weaken and destroy Russia. But they are at a loss to achieve the destruction of the nation of Russia. So, they are resolved for now to ethnic cleanse in proxy war.
Ironically, they have resurrected a strengthening Russia, a superpower who can reach out to the Realm’s own borders via Syria. And, most dramatically, have created Russia as the Regional Hegemon which prevents the Realm from ruling the ME. (Israel is diminished and forever downsized, now dependent on Wahhabi Arabs in a bizarre alliance of terrorist-nations.)
Hubris resides historically within the soul of the Jewish State. It infected the USA, too. And now the global Hegemon and the wannabe regional hegemon are locked in a dance of death in a war they created and sustained but which is draining away their mojo. The bane to their evil is Russia, come as rescuer of Christians, Alawites, Sunnis, Shiites, Yazidis, Armenians, Persians and Kurds.
What a paradox! The more the Realm projects its hubris, the greater the strength and influence of Mother Russia. The more satanic and devious the Khazarian ploys, the more expansive the Russian supremacy. The more blood shed by Russian heroes and heroines, the weaker the Realm is rendered.
Like the blood of Christ was salvation sacrament, so, too, the bloody sacrifices of Russians brings salvation for all the Realm’s victims. It flows right up to the Realm’s borders (Syria, Egypt, Lebanon). And next? Perhaps, within the Realm’s actual and virtual borders (Israel, USA, Ukraine).
There is a humility in the way of the Russians. Counterpointed to the hubris of the Realm dwellers, we see why Russia ascends. And we see who and why the Realm and its many derivations so hates and wars against Russia. It is a manifestation of the Realm of Darkness, and Mother Russia is the Power of Light.
I find this account deeply disturbing.
I had the impression that there was a large Russian diaspora in Israel and that the country was less rabidly anti-Russian in comparison to the US and W. Europe, (also given Netanyahu’s close relationship with Putin) so reading about someone being accused as a”kremlin agent of influence” is bit of a shock.
I sure am glad Ravid is in a happier ( and safer) place now.
SG
“had the impression that there was a large Russian diaspora in Israel and that the country was less rabidly anti-Russian in comparison to the US and W. Europe, (also given Netanyahu’s close relationship with Putin) so reading about someone being accused as a”kremlin agent of influence” is bit of a shock.”
The nutlessyahoo talks exactly like joe mccarthy and gay edgar hoover, have you ever read what the faggot said? You seriously think this zionazi has friendly views towards Russia?
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They’re playing you, or you’re one of them spamming. Either way…
I admit I don’t know much about Israel. This is why I’m grateful for Ravid’s account. I hope many people read about it. Vot tak, why is this so upsetting to you?
What is this insinuation that someone is “playing me”? Do you know who instigated the attack on my country? Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Wesley Clark..what do think they all have in common?
I lived in that zio shithole for a year. Its worse than you might think.
Btw, I would love to give details but I fear that it would get people in trouble. Just picture a hollywood movie bout Nazi Germany but wearing zio uniforms. I did meet russians that regretted their decision s, had good talk s until they learned I was a Christian.
Well, Ravid Gor’s awesome account gives a good impression. You’re damn right to compare the Nazis and the Israeli regime. The two are – which was and is just about the biggest taboo ever, as well (for obvious reasons) – is pretty much one and the same thing.
The Hitler Project (the attack on Russia, the ‘holocaust’, and so forth) was, very unlike what the whole lying (Zionist) system teaches, and therefore taken for granted by many, the biggest false flag, lie, monstrous war of aggression ever . . . http://www.whale.to/c/inside_the_gestapo.html
By some odd coincidence, this Russophobia is repeated now throughout the right-wing west.
Pretty much the “smoking gun”, the Russophobia nonsense current among the zio-quislings and the zio-gay media is zionazi orchestrated. This is a rightwing-homosexual wet dream come true, the likes of which past rightwing faggots, like gay edgar hoover and joe mccarthy preyed (correct spelling) for.
Everybody should be given the opportunity to read this. Israel is the right-wing dream come true and the brain of all this crap now.
Supremacist mindset (zionist, racial, cultural, it all stems from the same mental deformity), rightwingery and faggotry, the fecal triad.
It’s not the “right-wing west” it’s actually the left that is Russophobic!
Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen, AfD Frauke Petry are all right wing nationalists and are PRO Russia.
The left wing parties are the ones who are rabidly anti-Russian, who are promoting this ridiculous transgender/ bathroom rights/ agenda, and who consider the working class and basically all normal people as “deplorables”.
Here’s some background reading:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/01/25/demise-left-paul-craig-roberts/
So glad you managed to find your way out of the nightmare that is the Zionist colony. Could Kafka have imagined this?
I only hope more of the Russian Jewish diaspora to Israel realize the danger they are in, and take steps to return.
Having just read an article by Jonathan Cook on the brainwashing of Israeli children – ‘festivals’ where all the family get to enjoy the IDF ‘killing terrorists’, complete with realistic blood and wound special effects – I cannot see how sane people can survive there.
They are raising a nation of robotic killers who in the future will have access to nuclear codes.
The refusal of one school principal to send his students on the obligatory Auschwitz trip on the grounds that it perpetuates hatred and division saw the authorities coming down like a ton of bricks on him.
With the likes of the deeply fascist Bennett as ‘education’ minister it hardly surprises.
I see a future where the fascist organs of state in Israel become increasingly used to openly oppress not just the Palestinians, but all dissident Israelis.
An extremely moving testimony from a sincere human being very very precious in this day and age. My heartfelt thanks and best wishes in your new homeland.
A very moving and heart-felt story. I can empathize. In the US right now many of us, who are awake, are feeling isolated. Our friends, who may have been democrats suddenly talk like zombies, parroting the MSM talking points. Our TV channels for the most part spew hatred for all things Russia, Syria, Trump, and something known as “white men” (a new category recently discovered of humans). I sometimes expressed that Snowden, where he lives, may be luckier than many of us, though he be in exile. I am sure he has found many close friends and like-minded people and am sure he has gotten to witness the emotional generosity of the Russians (as well as their foibles. I mean, he read Dostoyevsky, he said, so there).
In israel, things are tricky for the Russian emigres. They were effectively second class citizens for a long time and suffered much deprivation of both body and soul, especially the many who spoke not a word of hebrew when they arrived. Many, I am sure, became disllusioned, yet the young generation that grew up in Israel has become mostly rabidly right wing, sharing in the open racism so openly displayed in israel (the kind of racism that would make you cringe in any Western country).
Ravid woke up over time, it seems, partly out of necessity (isn’t that how one always wakes up?). As time goes on, I am sure he will revisit his time in school, in the IDF, at work, with friends. He will have to undergo serious gestalt shift, as he re-evaluates his previous convictions and much of what he was taught and has come to believe. But I know it’ll be worth it. A life where one can be at peace with one’s conscience is a well-lived life. I cannot say enough about what relief it is to have one’s soul at peace. It opens up so much energy to do things in the world!
I did find it interesting to hear that israel, for the most part – strategically at least – views Russia as the ultimate enemy. I have known this for a long time, and this is one of the very few things about which I sometimes disagreed with The Saker, even if it was just on the margins. Yes, I know he did some good analysis and creached the same conclusions I have – from his own life and study experiences – in the end, the Empire he calls Anglo-zionist, is perched on course for a deadly conflict with Russia 9and China, of course). Today, there may be liasions and contacts and military co-operation with israel. But underneath that Israel for sure is preparing for a final conflict. They know that of all the powers out there, only russia has the spiritual, military and physical wherewithal to oppose them in the end. They know in Israel, because so many came from there and not just recently. Looks like Ravid got a front raw seat for that well-buried little truth (buried in the US, not in israel, where everyone knows everything and talks about what they know, or think they do, incessantly).
I honour your word(s).
May you live up to them .
Defend your home !
Become yourself !
Love !
Hug,
Stefan