To Know the Good from Evil. Factuality Versus Pretension

Part I. 

The Code of Civility

To know the good from evil is a cornerstone of human morality. It is a principal guiding line in life, for anyone who believes in humanity. These are words from the first chapter of Devarim, the last one of the five books of the Torah. These are the words of the Creator in his personal dialogue with Moses guiding him – and the nation – on the principle choice, and on the principle of a choice. This is the fundament of human morality in general. The introduction of moral code as a backbone of human experience. In general, not just for Jews. 

The very same principle of distinction between good and evil had been  brought to Christianity directly from the Old Testament, as many other things. The moral code built on this distinction between good and evil brought civility to this world. It is not an instinct. It is a choice. 

Amnesia Turned Hysteria

And the choices that we are seeing currently as made by the leaders of several leading Western countries with regard to the only Jewish state in the world, are appalling. These choices have been made based on a complete and intended – or pretended –  ignorance. Ignorance of both historical facts and development and current situation. These choices are cynically, shamelessly purporting to re-write both history and present time, to replace it by the pathetic distortion of factuality for make-shifting their own cowardice and  inability to lead in the real sense of it. 

The eternal sad fact of human history is that truth is often difficult to handle while lies are always comfy. Another truism is that history inevitably repeats itself. It is so due to human nature which does not change in its basics. With time, there are changes in technicalities only: like a Holocaust pictures of today, that ones of the Nazi-like Hamas own production of them bragging of their animalistic cruelty towards the hostages, is not hidden for years, to shock the world afterword, as it was  after the end of WWII, but reaches everyone globally momentarily – with not causing a massive shock and indignation at all. Why bother? It is just a Zionist forced to dig his own grave on record. Well, he  ‘ seems to be in a weak shape”, as the state own, taxpayers funded Finnish TV Broadcast company YLE has noted melancholically. Yeah, a weak shape indeed. We all are living currently under this accelerating  avalanche of decisive streams of intentional, manufactured  lies produced by all these taxpayer-funded BBCs of the world non-stop. 

At the same time, the truth is findable in the same blink of an eye with which the lies are disseminated. Unlike fifty years ago when some governments were guarding their decision-making documentation very tightly and often successfully, today it is really easy to check and see it for oneself. What is the state of Palestine, for example? How Palestinian children are brought up? What are the objectives of that society? How does it function? Who is financing the current massive anti-Semitic hysterical world-campaign ? How has it been organised and carried on for years? Who are the players and what are their objectives? And –  why are the certain leaders of the certain countries playing along with the globally spread hysteria of open hate based on a criminal amnesia? 

Why indeed? 

Rewarded Fake

Over thirty years ago, in the early 1990s, the archives of the Soviet Communist Party had been opened for a small group of experts for a short time, a four-months window of the unique opportunity to see into the depth of the decision-making of that monstrous regime. The decision to open some of the archives was dictated by the necessities for the invited experts to prepare their defense of then new President  of the post-Communist Russia Boris Eltsyn at the legal process in which ever-powerful for previous 70 years Communist Party of the USSR challenged him in the court for alleged abuse of power. 

Among those picked-up, a very small group of experts invited by the new authorities to defend Eltsyn was living in Cambridge, UK, great Soviet dissident and internationally renowned freedom fighter and writer Vladimir Bukovsky, a close friend and colleague of mine.

Among the experts, he was the only one who arrived in Moscow not only with his laptop, but also with a small portable scanner. Vladimir spent the entire days in the specially allocated for the work of experts place in the centre of Moscow , where a large folders containing hundreds if not thousands top-secret documents, which all were selectively de-classified by the Russian authorities for that four-months period of time, were brought in and taken out weekly.

 Bukovsky was markedly diligent in that office. He came early in the morning and he left the last one. Some people were surprised that he spent the entire days there during several months. He, a chain-smoker, did not interrupt for cigarette-breaks, nor did he spend any time socialising with the others. Vladimir was overwhelmingly busy. He scanned it all those  days through. 

At the time, people around him in Moscow hadn’t heard about portable scanners, and nobody had any idea what he was doing until almost the end of his instant mission, when one of the officials realised what’s going on. But it was too late by then. Between two and three thousands pages of the top -secret documents of the Soviet regime were scanned and safely moved out of Russia by Bukovsky and those people who did help him in that historical mission. 

As a result, an array of the authentic documents in between 1953 and 1990 related to many activities of the USSR, including creation and support of numerous terrorist organisations world-wide, has become available to the Western public. These documents are not simply top-secret, but many of them have three and four layers of top-secrecy: Top Secret, Of Particular Importance, A Special File, Absolutely Secret stamps were atop most of the documents scanned.  

Many of these fascinating authentic documents dealt with Palestine, from the very beginning of the creation the group of people and their terror organisations , all by the KGB, GRU and the Soviet Communist regime, from the mid-1960s , agreeing with necessity of conducting terror acts, in writing, and coming to the systematic financing the PLO and PFLP , equipping them with weapons, from Kalashnikovs to military speedboats, manufacturing  for them false documents, organising their illegal maneuvering throughout the Middle East, and running an extensive international campaigns of indirect  influencing various foreign governments, including the Carter’s Administration, for example, on the behalf of their terrorist proxies. 

The bunch of documents shows the Soviet patronage of Wadie Haddad, the military boss of the PFLP, the arch-terrorist who was a mastermind  and the leader of hijacking France Air Tel-Aviv-Paris flight which evolved into Operation Entebbe. One of the documents, personal report by the KGB boss Jury Andropov to the Soviet ruler comrade Brezhnev tells in detail about secret delivery to ‘our trustful contact’ Haddad a serious part of foreign-produced weapons, including machine-guns and revolvers with silencers, in the middle night in the water of the Aden Gulf, just one month before Haddad and his terrorist gang’s hijacking of the France Air plane in Athens before moving it first to Libya and then to Uganda where the Operation Entebbe took place. 

 “We have delivered 58 gun-machines, 50 revolvers, including 10 with silencers, and 34.000 bullets. Only our trusted person comrade Haddad knows that the weapons come from us” – wrote Andropov to Brezhnev on May 14, 1975.  The hijacking happened on June 27th, 1975. 

There are plenty more documents on inventing, manufacturing, developing the myth of non-existing nation and inflicting of their aspirations for statehood, of handling , financing and providing weapons for their terror activities both in Israel and world-wide, even changing the tactics regarding the places of terror according to the needs of the Kremlin foreign policies: “ now it is more advantageous to shift the terror acts from the Western countries to inside Israel”, “ now it will be better to carry on terror acts in Lebanon and other Middle-Eastern countries, to destabilize the region”, – regularly writes the KGB boss Andropov to comrade Brezhnev. There are also documents showing the Soviet plan and its implementation on heavy, ongoing influence of the UN stand and activities  against Israel, including all crazy resolutions equating Zionism with Nazism and alike. All of it. 

All those documents have been published, many of them did find their way to numerous Western governments and their agencies. It all is perfectly known to the people who lead their countries today. Or it should be known to them if they take their job and position seriously, with appropriate and expected responsibility which comes with the Presidential and Prime-Ministerial portfolios. 

But as we are seeing, many of them do not bother to get to know the facts. Because it is uncomfortable. And because factuality is perceived by today’s Western leaders as an obstacle to their  dutifully Orwellian world in which both white and black are grey, but white is certainly grey of  a deeper  intensity. This morally totally corrupted world where the players certainly do not know good from evil, and importantly, does not bother to know, inevitably produces low deeds and cheap, but dangerous distortions. This is the world of utterly pathetic characters who, for some reasons known to them mostly, enthusiastically went to repeat  the most shameful episodes of the previous governments in their countries , from the partition of Palestine a century ago, to the shame of the Munich Agreement of 1938.

Part II of the essay to follow.