Ukraine: Israeli Special Forces Unit under Neo-Nazi Command Involved in Maidan Riots
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Image: Neo-Nazi Militia |
Under the title “In Kiev, an Israeli army vet led a street-fighting unit”, the Jewish News Agency JTA confirms
that soldiers from the IDF were involved in the EuroMaidan protest
movement under the direct command of the Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party. The
Svoboda Party follows in the footsteps of World War II Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera.
The leader of the “Blue Helmets of Maidan” is Delta “the nom de
guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated
in the Ukrainian revolution”. Delta is a Veteran of the notorious Givati
infantry brigade, which was involved in numerous operations directed
against Gaza including Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009.
The Givati brigade was responsible for the massacres in the Tel
el-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza. Delta, the leader of the EuroMaidan IDF
unit acknowledges that he acquired his urban combat skills in the
Shu’alei Shimshon reconnaissance battalion of the Givati brigade.
Delta, the nom de guerre of the
Jewish commander of a Ukrainian street-fighting unit, is pictured in
Kiev earlier this month. (Courtesy of ‘Delta’)
According to the JTA report, Delta was in command of a force of 40
men and women including several former IDF veterans. In the EuroMaidan,
Delta was routinely applying his skills of urban warfare which he had
used against the Palestinians in Gaza.
The Maidan “Street fighting unit” under Delta’s command was involved
in confronting government forces. It is unclear from the reports whether
the EuroMaidan combat unit was in liaison with IDF command headquarters
in Israel:
The Blue Helmets comprise 35 men and women who are not Jewish, and who are led by five ex-IDF soldiers, says Delta, an Orthodox Jew in his late 30s
Delta, who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, moved back to Ukraine several years ago … He says he joined the protest movement as a volunteer on Nov. 30, after witnessing violence by government forces against student protesters.
“I saw unarmed civilians with no military background being ground by a well-oiled military machine, and it made my blood boil,” Delta told JTA in Hebrew laced with military jargon. “I joined them then and there, and I started fighting back the way I learned how, through urban warfare maneuvers. People followed, and I found myself heading a platoon of young men. Kids, really.”
The other ex-IDF infantrymen joined the Blue Helmets later after hearing it was led by a fellow vet, Delta said.
In a bitter irony, Delta, the commander of the IDF militia unit was taking his orders directly from the Neo-Nazi Party Svoboda:
As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda, an ultra-nationalist [Neo-Nazi] party that has been frequently accused of anti-Semitism and whose members have been said to have had key positions in organizing the opposition protests.
“I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said. “What they’re saying about Svoboda is exaggerated, I know this for a fact. I don’t like them because they’re inconsistent, not because of [any] anti-Semitism issue.”
Neither
the Tel Aviv government nor the Israeli media have expressed concern
regarding the fact that the EuroMaidan protests were led by Neo-Nazis.
With the formation of a new government composed of NeoNazis, the Jewish community
in Kiev is threatened. This community is described as “one of the most
vibrant Jewish communities in the world, with dozens of active Jewish
organizations and institutions”. A significant part of this community is
made up of family members of holocaust survivors. “Three million
Ukrainians were murdered by the Nazis during their occupation of
Ukraine, including 900,000 Jews.” (indybay.org, January 29, 2014).
“It’s bullshit. I never saw any expression of anti-Semitism during the protests”
In a bitter twist, the Blue Helmet IDF unit in the EuroMaidan has
been the object of praise by the Israeli media. According to Ariel Cohen
of the Washington based Heritage Foundation: “The commanding position
of Svoboda in the revolution is no secret”. The participation of Israeli
soldiers under Neo-Nazi Svoboda command does not seem to be an object
of concern:
On Wednesday, Russian State Duma Chairman Sergey Naryshkin said Moscow was concerned about anti-Semitic declarations by radical groups in Ukraine.But Delta says the Kremlin is using the anti-Semitism card falsely to delegitimize the Ukrainian revolution, which is distancing Ukraine from Russia’s sphere of influence.
“It’s bullshit. I never saw any expression of anti-Semitism during the protests, and the claims to the contrary were part of the reason I joined the movement. We’re trying to show that Jews care,” he said.
See Svoboda and Right Sector militants honoring Stepan Bandera(image below)
Bandera was a Nazi collaborator involved in the Third Reich’s
Einsatzgruppen (Task Groups or Deployment Groups) . These “task forces”
were paramilitary death squads deployed throughout the Ukraine.
Neo-Nazis Honoring Stepan Bandera
The JTA article can be consulted at www.jta.org/2014/02/28/news-opinion/world/in-kiev-an-israeli-militia-commander-fights-in-the-streets-and-saves-lives#ixzz2uvYcMBEl
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