John Kerry’s Self-Deception

[Judi Lynn]

April 22, 2014
Anti-Semitism in Eastern Ukraine

John Kerry’s Self-Deception

by BINOY KAMPMARK


Ukraine has become a cauldron of dissimulation and provocation. Pro-Russian and pro-coup agitators are engaging in an open brawl, nudged by respective supporters and factions from East to West. The recent annexation of Crimea has but the authorities in Kiev on guard – what next? Certainly, anti-government forces seemed to be gaining the upper hand, seizing control of official facilities and buildings in Donetsk. The Crimean copybook was being pursued.

In an effort to stave of Putin’s next extensive chess move, four-party (US-EU-Ukraine-Russia) talks in Geneva were held. On April 17, a somewhat ill-formed US Secretary of State, John Kerry, decided to turn the tables on the pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk. The anti-coup protesters operating in the east of Ukraine were the only authentic neo-Nazis in the nationalist melee. Those in the pro-coup camp were, well, so inconsequential to Kerry as to not worth mentioning.

His source of inspiration was a rather odious flier that had been circulating, one suggesting that Jews register for a cost “on pain of deportation”, bearing striking similarity to German leaflets distributed during 1942-1944. The document, purportedly printed by the People’s Republic of Donetsk, directed all Jews over the age of 16 to pay a fee of $US50 and register with the newly installed authorities or face the prospect of expulsion or loss of citizenship.

For Kerry, “this was not just intolerable; it’s grotesque. It is beyond unacceptable. And any of the people who engage in these kinds of activities , from whatever party or whatever ideology or whatever place they crawl out of, there is no place for that. And unanimously, every party today joined in this condemnation of that kind of behaviour.”

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/22/john-kerrys-self-deception/

[dipsydoodle]

1. I could't believe it when he bit on that flier

without doing a background check to confirm it was a redraft of an earlier extortion scam.

[pnwmom]

2. That quote doesn't indicate he "bit" on anything. Whoever put that out there,

from whatever party, for whatever purpose, was despicable.

[dipsydoodle]

3. If you check back

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you'll find he commented immediately following the article in the US press.

Anti-Semitic fliers in eastern Ukraine denounced.

U.S. officials Thursday denounced what one called a "grotesque" leaflet ordering Jews in one eastern Ukrainian city to register with a government office, but the Jewish community there dismissed it as a "provocation."

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And in Geneva, where diplomats held emergency talks on the Ukrainian crisis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the leaflets "grotesque" and "beyond unacceptable."

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/17/world/ukraine-religious-threats/

Antisemitic flyer 'by Donetsk People's Republic' in Ukraine a hoax.

US secretary of state John Kerry soon waded into the media storm over the piece of paper, describing it as "grotesque" and "beyond unacceptable". But on Friday the chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic and the city's chief rabbi both stated that the flyer was a fake meant to discredit the so-called republic or the Jewish community.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/antisemitic-donetsk-peoples-republic-ukraine-hoax


Just in case you missed some posts here on DU on the subject :

It's 1 of at least 3 similar hoaxes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4840849

Haaretz - "Flier calling on Donetsk Jews to register now widely seen as fake"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4840865

[pnwmom]

4. But isn't it grotesque and unacceptable no matter who put it out there?

Whether it was "real" or "fake"?

[JI7]

6. exactly, people seem to think we should just laugh it off or something like it was some joke

when it was something that should be condemned in itself which is what Kerry did. he did not put the blame on any specific person.

but whoever did it and for whatever reason it should be condemned.

[KoKo]

5. I don't know whether

he's revealing his true nature, is overwhelmed by the Neo-Cons infesting DOS, or he's just lost his mind. His posturing and jumping the gun at every opportunity doesn't seem to be the same personality who ran for President in 2004.

It's a puzzle.

[bobthedrummer]

7. Plus he is, in fact, a 1%er and Skull & Bones-k&r n/t

[mylye2222]

8. Oh stop with that please.

Kerry acted trough his whole carreer as a advocate to Open Govt. policies. He exposed alone, with almost no back support, and facind death treats, BCCCi, Iran contra......