Les Juifs russes et l’Ukraine

Les Juifs russes et l’Ukraine

Nous avons beaucoup parlé de l’attitude pour le moins ambiguë d’Israël dans la crise ukrainienne, par rapport à ses accointances traditionnellement pro-US. (Voir notamment le 22 février 2014, le 12 avril 2014, le 14 avril 2014.) On apporte ici un élément de plus, qui concerne spécifiquement les Juifs russes, notamment les plus représentatifs de leur communauté que sont certains oligarques qui exercent leur influence dans les médias.

Cette réflexion vient de Saker (le site Vineyard of the Saker), dont on connaît l’important apport qu’il offre dans la communication pour la crise ukrainienne, avec une très forte connaissance de la situation russe, historique et actuelle. (Il semble évident que Saker est un Russe émigré aux USA, avec les atouts culturels qui vont avec pour la compréhension de cette crise, mais aussi des connaissances très précises du domaine militaire russe, de la religion orthodoxe, etc.) Saker note dans sa Situation Report du 20 mai 2014, qu’il existe une très forte poussée populaire et médiatique en Russie pour une intervention de la Russie en faveur des russophones d’Ukraine, – ce que Poutine veut éviter à tout prix, à juste raison estime Saker, qui juge que la stratégie du bloc BAO et de Kiev est effectivement de pousser la Russie à une intervention. A partir de là, Saker aborde la question de la position des Juifs russes dans ce débat et insiste particulièrement sur leur intense patriotisme russe, alimentant ainsi indirectement l’un des aspects des “relations spéciales” entre la Russie et Israël.

«Coming back to the media, another very interesting phenomenon is taking place: high visibility Russian Jews are clearly in the lead of the movement to take action (though not necessarily a military one) against the [Kiev’s] Junta. Very well-known Jewish personalities like Vladimir Soloviev, Alexander Gordon, Roman Ratner (current head of the Alia battalion, an Israeli special forces battalion composed of Russian Jews), Avigdor Eskin and many others. While rabid Jew-haters will dismiss this under the usual list of pretexts having to do with Jewish hypocrisy, playing both sides, etc., I personally believe that this is truly an expression of the loathing that Russian Jews have for Ukrainian neo-Nazis. I would add that it is pretty clear to me that most Russian nationalists also believe in the sincerity of these Jews and welcome them in a struggle against a common enemy. Does that mean that from now on there will be a long and uninterrupted “love fest” between Russian and Jewish patriots? Most definitely not. The list of outstanding issues of very strong disagreement and even opposition is huge, but this is an interesting “temporary cease-fire” if you want, a typically Russian (and Jewish!) way of keeping priorities straight and agreeing to a temporary tactical alliance against a common foe. Furthermore, there are a lot of Russian Jews who have always felt a sincere and strong love for Russia and the Russian people (if only because a lot of them came from mixed marriages) and who welcome the opportunity to not have to chose between both sides and to be both patriotic Jews and patriotic Russians. I know, to some this sill sound extremely naive. But I personally have known many such Russian Jews, in Israel, Europe and Russia, who really did have a double-loyalty, but one which openly added two sincerely loyalties. Of course, some felt more Jewish than Russian, but others felt more Russian than Jewish. These matters are subtle and complex, not as black and white as some kneejerk Jew-haters would want them to be. As the Russian expressions goes “the East is a subtle realm” and both Russians and Jews are first and foremost folks of the East, not of the West.»

Mise en ligne le 21 mai 2014 à 07H51