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Prytulak   InfoUkes Posting   21-Dec-1997   Israeli censorship: Directed against Ukraine?
Date:  Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:07:33 -0800
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From:  Lubomyr Prytulak
Subject:  Israeli censorship: Directed against Ukraine?
Imagine if Ukraine had a permanent censorship committee overseeing mail, and if this committee was empowered to open private letters and to confiscate them.  Imagine, furthermore, that in recent years this committee had busied itself primarily with confiscating letters arriving in Ukraine from Ukrainian emigrants who had emigrated to Israel in cases where the effect of those letters might be to encourage other Ukrainians to emigrate to Israel.

What an outcry there would be against barbaric, anti-Semitic Ukraine!  This would signify to the world press not the protection by Ukraine of its vital resource of the scientific and engineering talent needed for survival, this would be an expression of the legacy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, described in Jewish children's textbooks as the "first Hitler."

In fact, however, Ukraine has no such mail censorship committee, and does not confiscate such letters.  But Israel does:

Another censorship committee oversees the mail, and is empowered to open private letters and to confiscate (but not destroy) them.  In the 1950s it acted with few restraints, but in recent years it has busied itself primarily with confiscating letters of new emigrants from the former USSR to their relatives which could deter the latter from immigrating to Israel.  (Israel Shahak, Open Secrets: Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies, Pluto Press, London and Chicago, Illinois, 1997, p. 14)

I have earlier developed at some length my thesis that the foremost orientation of Israel toward Ukraine is to plunder Ukraine of its scientific and engineering talent.  In pursuit of this goal, Israel is aided primarily by two phenomena � the real economic underperformance of Ukraine, and a largely-imagined and partly-incited anti-Semitism.  Another way of putting it is that Ukraine's economic underperformance is in Israel's interests; and that the irrational, unending, and hysterical accusations of Nazi sympthies and anti-Semitism among Ukrainians is orchestrated from Jerusalem in an attempt to stampede remaining Ukrainian Jews into fleeing to Israel.

It would seem that the only effective reply to the Israeli strangulation of the flow of accurate information as to what Ukrainian emigrants can expect upon arriving in Israel is for Ukraine to mount a campaign of information supplying the very information which Israeli censors are attempting to choke off.  Such an information campaign would not be merely a spiteful tit-for-tat; it would be, rather, a measure which should have been instituted long ago in the interests of national survival, and which should still be instituted today even though much of the damage has already been inflicted.

Lubomyr Prytulak

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