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Jun 23, 2022, 7:41 PM

An Honourable Man Speaks

Today, President Zelensky’s addressed, by video-link, the community of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was a bitter-sweet broadcast, contrasting the support the Ukraine has received from around the world, from small nations like Luxembourg to powerful states such...

May 27, 2022, 10:25 PM

The Cost of Rebuilding The Ukraine

With Mariupol in ruins and other cities in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine being subjected to relentless Russian bombardment, what, one may ask, is Putin’s objective in laying waste city after city? Clearly he wants to force President...

May 15, 2022, 4:31 PM

Time for a new song

The tide is turning in favour of the Ukraine. Winning the Eurovision Song Contest with “Stephania”, essentially a paean to mothers, and sung entirely in Ukrainian, is a further boost to that country’s morale. Public support for the struggle...

May 2, 2022, 3:01 PM

Zelensky is the comedian; Lavrov the joke!

How far will Russia go to justify the unjustifiable? The claim the Ukraine is in need of de-Nazification, has been presented as the main reason why Russia invaded a sovereign nation, to cleanse it of a barbaric ideology. The...

Apr 27, 2022, 3:08 PM

Does NATO need a hearing-aid?

Liz Truss, the British Foreign Secretary, will today urge NATO to provide warplanes to the Ukraine, something President Zelensky has repeatedly requested. In March, the Poles offered MiG-29 fighter jets but were blocked by the Biden administration. How the...

Apr 6, 2022, 9:14 PM

Zelensky the media artist

The fighting in the Ukraine is intense and so is the media war, with President Zelensky taking every opportunity to highlight the plight of his people and what he sees as the inactivity of the West, NATO in particular,...

Apr 3, 2022, 9:42 PM

There will be a reckoning!

Clear evidence is emerging, from the ruins around Kyiv, particularly in the town of Bucha, where the Ukrainian media report a massacre, of war crimes perpetrated by Russian soldiers. It is imperative scenes of murder are carefully documented in...

Apr 1, 2022, 6:15 PM

The alleged attack by Ukrainian forces on a Russian fuel depot in Belgorod should come as little surprise; what does Putin think war is about, just a one-sided assault? One of the Russian President’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, commented such...

Mar 31, 2022, 6:29 PM

Syrian involvement: A turn for the worse?

Putin’s answer to break Ukrainian resistance in the cities, that have witnessed unrelenting bombardment by Russian artillery, is to enlist the support of some 16,000 Syrian mercenaries, men who are seasoned urban fighters with a reputation for ruthlessness. Such...

Mar 30, 2022, 9:28 PM

Understanding Putin’s Motivation

The West is still trying to fathom what Putin’s long-term objective is by invading the Ukraine. Looking at the deployment of Russian troops in the east of the country and the continuing bombardment of Mariupol it seems the strategy...

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About Me

Peter John Beyfus is an historian, published author, poet, and a person who prides himself on “thinking outside the box”. I have written many essays on Jewish themes, published in various journals, including ‘Wessex Jewish News’ and ‘Westminster Quarterly’, the magazine of Westminster Synagogue, London.

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