Is it anti-Semitic to criticize Netanyahu because he murders children?
That’s what our “elected representatives” are saying about Americans who want the slaughter to stop. They’re saying it’s not because we mind sending our tax dollars to support genocide.
That’s what our “elected representatives” are saying about Americans who want the slaughter to stop. They’re saying it’s not because we mind sending our tax dollars to support genocide. According to them, if Netanyahu were a goy, we’d all be cheering for the mass murder.
Make sense?
REAL AMERICANS PROTEST VISIT OF SLIMEBALL CRIMINAL NETANYAHU TO CONGRESS
Watch this beautiful video of REAL AMERICANS protesting the desecration of the US Congress by slimy TRAITORS SOLD OUT TO genocidal AIPAC
Personally I think EVERY LAWMAKER WHO “STANDS WITH ISRAEL” HAS SOLD HIS/HER SOUL TO AIPAC, IS AN ACCOMPLICE TO GENOCIDE AND INFANTICIDE AND SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND JAILED AND DIVESTED OF THE RIGHT TO SERVE IN OUR GOVERNMENT EVER. COLLECT NAMES OF BIGGEST OFFENDERS. LINDSAY, NIKKI, SCHUMER, JOHNSON. DON’T FORGET TRUMP AND VANCE. And hundreds more. They are all puppets of Netanyahu.
MORE BEAUTIFUL FOOTAGE OF REAL AMERICANS PROTESTING THE CONGRESS-SUPPORTED GENOCIDE
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JEWS AND MUSLIMS ARE JOINING HANDS IN PROTEST. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RELIGION
A rabbi addressed the crowd saying Judaism does not teach theft or murder.
He’s right. According to the Hebrew Bible, Leviticus 19: 34 – You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Yk45G_5n4t4
As Israel-First politicians embrace Netanyahu, many people say No Thanks – Day 290
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Massie vs AIPAC:
As many American politicians embrace Netanyahu, real people say No Thanks – Day 290
2 million Gazans are squeezed into 20% of their land, as Israeli bombers and snipers keep killing; UNICEF vehicles hit by Israeli gunfire; peace activists arrested in US Capitol; Israeli luminaries call Netanyahu an “existential threat” to Israel and US; Rashida Tlaib: “Netanyahu’s Congress speech is a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”; Schumer says he will attend Netanyahu’s Congress speech; Israeli gov’t heavily funding illegal Israeli outposts; 350 “experts” endorse Kamala Harris for her Israel support; Olympics news; Israeli forces killing spree in West Bank; seven major labor unions demand that Biden pull the plug on Israel aid; China brokers reconciliation deal with Palestinian factions
Good Americans don’t support this:
https://x.com/i/status/1815990042558627970
And it has nothing to do with anti/Semitism!
They don’t hate that poor toddler. But TRUMP hates him because he’s Palestinian.
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Col. Douglas MacGregor: “Washington is now firmly under the control of Israel and its supporters in the United States.”
Video:
December 6, 2023: Colonel Douglas MacGregor, a 20-year veteran of the US Army who previously served as Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Defense, says: “Washington is now firmly under the control of Israel and its supporters in the United States.”
Colonel McGregor discusses the situation in Gaza, the Hamas October 7 attack on southern Israel, the dangerous potential for a wider war that could involve the US, and says it is not in US interest “to bankroll Israel’s expulsion of millions of people from their homes in order to create a new Jewish mega-state.”
Colonel McGregor is a decorated combat veteran with a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books.
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A QUESTION FOR YOU:
The leader of the “only democracy in the Middle East,” came to the US Congress this morning, which he owns de facto, to explain why he and the “most moral army” must keep slaughtering those pesky Palestinian children, who as we all know, are animals, and is just asking us for the small favor of keeping up the deliveries of those 2000 lb bombs. It’s such a bother having to load up a bomber 4 times to kill the same number of innocent children one could kill with only one plane load. Well. We’ll see what Congress says about this.
Meanwhile, thousands of Hamas supporters were outside screaming some nonsense about genocide. And the Natanyahu fans are saying these screamers are all a bunch of anti-Semites (although they included the group Jewish Voice for Peace and some Orthodox Jewish leaders.)
So my question is this, and it’s an intelligence test:
If an American claims Netanyahu is a murderer because he has slaughtered 40,000 Palestinians plus about 10,000 unidentified under the rubble, is it because that person is an anti-Semite or is it because Netanyahu is actually guilty of murder?
Let us know your opinion. Thanks.
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Our thanks to JS for this history of the post-annexation Tatars in Crimea:
RE: Crimea was always Russian since 1783
SEE:
Crimean Tatars constituted the majority of Crimea's population from the time of ethnogenesis until the mid-19th century, and the largest ethnic population until the end of the 19th century.[11][12] Russia [no, the Tsarist Empire. The people could not vote] attempted to purge Crimean Tatars through a combination of physical violence, intimidation, forced resettlement, and legalized forms of discrimination between 1783 and 1900. Between Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 1783 and 1800, somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 Crimean Tatars emigrated. However, this did not result in the complete eradication of Crimean Tatar cultural elements (at least not under the Romanov dynasty; however, under the Soviets, the Crimean Tatars were almost completely driven from the Crimean peninsula).[13]
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The Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) resulted in the defeat of the Ottomans by the Russians, and according to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774) signed after the war, Crimea became independent and the Ottomans renounced their political right to protect the Crimean Khanate. After a period of political unrest in Crimea, Russia violated the treaty and annexed the Crimean Khanate in 1783. After the annexation, the wealthier Tatars, who had exported wheat, meat, fish and wine to other parts of the Black Sea, began to be expelled and to move to the Ottoman Empire. Due to the oppression by the Russian administration and colonial politics of Russian Empire, the Crimean Tatars were forced to immigrate to the Ottoman Empire. Further expulsions followed in 1812 for fear of the reliability of the Tatars in the face of Napoleon's advance. Particularly, the Crimean War of 1853–1856, the laws of 1860–63, the Tsarist policy and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) caused an exodus of the Tatars; 12,000 boarded Allied ships in Sevastopol to escape the destruction of shelling, and were branded traitors by the Russian [Tsarist, undemocratic] government.[70] Of total Tatar population 300,000 of the Taurida Governorate about 200,000 Crimean Tatars emigrated.[106] Many Crimean Tatars perished in the process of emigration, including those who drowned while crossing the Black Sea. In total, from 1783 till the beginning of the 20th century, at least 800 thousand Tatars left Crimea. Today the descendants of these Crimeans form the Crimean Tatar diaspora in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
Me
Yes, but who was to blame for the confrontation between the Crimean Khanate and Russia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Crimean_Wars
In the 16th century, the Wild Steppes in Russia were exposed to the Khanate. During the wars, the Crimean Khanate (supported by the Turkish army) invaded central Russia, devastated Ryazan, and burned Moscow. However, the next year they were defeated in the Battle of Molodi. Despite the defeat, the raids continued. As a result, the Crimean Khanate was invaded several times, and conquered in the late 18th century. The Tatars eventually lost their influence in the regions.
So it was NOT a simple matter of the Tatars being helpless victims of the Russians!
I would say that from the start of Soviet times onward, Russia has generally exercised caution and delicacy in its treatment of its indigenous non-Russian population and has managed to maintain peaceful control over vast territories populated by various ethnic groups with non-Russian cultures, such as Muslim-majority Dagestan. {The Chechen confrontation was NOT spontaneous, it was instigated by the CIA and NGOS like those of Soros, which systematically turned populations against Russia – as it continues to do today in the former Soviet republics. In fact, decades ago, the authorities carved out a large Jewish province where Jews all over Russia were allowed to go and live. Just have a look at the enormous chart of ethnicities in Russia, which co-exist in relative peace with their Russian Orthodox neighbors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia.
I don’t believe there is another country in the world that has managed to collect anywhere near this number of ethnicities under one administration, with the ethnic cultures and languages intact and in harmony with the national administration. Compare this with Ukraine, which, following the US illegal meddling on the Maidan (under Obama-Biden) and the naming of a Neo-Nazi government in Kiev, has been trying to ban the use of Russian language and is shelling innocents for the express purpose of provoking a war.
Let’s admit that the persecution of the Russian speakers in certain regions of Ukraine is unique. No other ethnic group other than US-supported Israel has been such a persecutor of an indigenous ethnicity within its own borders.
And the underlying culprit is always the US empire.
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Article tip from Jeff Brown’s China Writers
The inimitable Pepe Escobar
China designs an economic road map all the way to 2-29
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Here’s your daily air strike update for July 24, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and [brackets]
7.24.2024
One Iskander strike destroyed 65 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and 300 FPV drones
Anton Valagin
The Iskander ballistic missile very successfully flew into the city of Krasny Liman in the temporarily occupied part of the DPR, hitting the command post of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two drone control posts with one blow.
https://vk.com/video-107986197_456242178
The accumulation of several important targets in one place was discovered by reconnaissance, their destruction was controlled by a Russian drone - they feel calm in the enemy sky, be it deep in the rear or in the front line. But there is no rest for Ukrainian drones even on earth.
Following the private house in which the brigade headquarters was located, two command and staff vehicles, turned into mobile drone control centers, burst into flames.
According to preliminary data, as a result of the strike, the command post of the 63rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, two UAV control posts, 10 aircraft-type drones, more than 300 FPV drones, at least 65 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, an antenna-mast device, 3 pickup trucks were destroyed, writes Iznanka.
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Translation with my notes in bold and [brackets
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/news/2024/07/24/23523745.shtml?ysclid=lyzykx6p6f702981864
July 24, 2024
The Russian Aerospace Forces dropped FAB-500s on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the Northern Military District zone
Russian Ministry of Defense: Su-34 hit a temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Northern Military District zone with aerial bombs
Dmitry Arkhipov
Su-34 fighter-bombers of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of the Russian Federation attacked a temporary deployment point of Ukrainian troops in the zone of a special military operation (SVO) assigned to the West group. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“We reset the UMPC (universal glide and correction module. - Ed.) with the established range. Based on the results of objective control, the targets were hit,” said fighter pilot Vladislav.
According to the defense department, the Aerospace Forces used FAB-500 aerial bombs were used for the strike.
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Translation with my notes in bold and [brackets]
Nikolaev oblast is on fire: The underground sent Russian missiles to the Martynovsky airfield - the situation in the Northern Military District zone July 24, 2024
[this means the Nikolaev underground sent the coordinates of the target to the Russian aerospace force]
Today, July 24
In recent days, the Russian army has received daily warnings
A powerful strike was recorded towards the Martynovsky airfield, located in the Nikolaev oblast of Ukraine. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev.
Russian missiles struck near an airfield near the city of Voznesensk. Here, as well as throughout the Nikolaev oblast, as well as in 8 other oblasts of Ukraine, an air raid warning was in effect on July 23.
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Translation with my notes in bold and [brackets]
https://1prime.ru/20240724/ukraina-850393436.html?ysclid=lyzyywzv16954202941
24.07.2024
"Successful strike." Iskander destroyed Western instructors near Kharkov
MWM: Iskander-M dealt the biggest blow to Western mercenaries in Ukraine
Exercises of electronic launches of OTRK Iskander-M - PRIME, 1920, 07/24/2024
© RIA Novosti. Vitaly Nevar
MOSCOW, July 24 - PRIME. The Iskander-M missile system destroyed about 50 foreign instructors near Kharkov. This loss is one of the largest in 2024, MWM reports citing the Russian Ministry of Defense.
On July 23, the Iskander-M tactical complex launched a successful strike against a temporary deployment point for military instructors and mercenaries from Western countries located in the Kharkov oblast. As a result of the operation, 50 specialists were killed.
In addition to the attack on the complex, the Russian army distinguished itself with successful strikes against MIM-104 Patriot air defense systems, as well as a number of Su-27 fighters at the Mirgorod airbase.
The destruction of Western mercenaries and specialists involved in helping the Ukrainian side is an important tactical goal of the Russian army. In March 2022, Russia carried out a successful strike on a military base in Yavorov, where about 1,000 Western troops were working. In addition, the attack on the headquarters of European militants in January of this year was another success for the Russian military.
The Russian Armed Forces hit a ship repair plant in Izmail, where there were boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
10:59
The Russian Ministry of Defense has already reported on the movement of foreign specialists across the territory of Ukraine and their successful elimination. The Russian mission strongly recommends that foreign citizens refrain from interacting with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the conflict territory.
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Translation from German with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Newsletter - Dispute over Viktor Orbán
(Own report) – Efforts to punish Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for his trips to Russia and China are leading to new disputes in the EU. Orbán recently held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump and subsequently reported that he had explored possibilities for peace negotiations in the Ukraine war. The EU has already begun to reprimand him for this [The EU is clearly for war, even though it means inordinate numbers of Ukrainian men will inevitably die for nothing. But it is not the Europeans who really want war with Russia. The US regime controls the EU leadership – though it must be noted that the populace is drifting farther away from the autocrats in Brussels. The real people in Europe are starting to rebel against the EU, with populist parties gaining ground, causing hysterics in the EU leadership], with ministers and top EU officials boycotting meetings that Hungary is organizing as part of its EU Council Presidency. On Monday, however, there was a heated dispute over this: the governments of several member states, including Germany, fear that isolating Orbán could win him new sympathies. Another reason is that those parts of the EU population who want an end to the Ukraine war do not feel represented by the government and the main opposition parties in most member states. Orbán is now offering himself as an alternative. Shortly after his heavily criticized trip to China, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba arrived in Beijing yesterday, Tuesday.
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9628
US pastor on US terrorism
Our thanks to RT for this.
Those fucking Zionists are all going to die and Israel will cease to exist. Wipe them off the face of the earth. Let the fireworks begin and burn that illegal, zionist entity be turned into ashes.Yeah, I am that fucking angry....and with Zionism, let Mordor, D.C. also be burned, good to ashes.
Me:
That’s righteous indignation and it is very appropriate.
Well, the Houthis and Hezbollah are working on it and it could happen.
US politicians had better prepare to reverse course. Once their main donor is gone, I hope many will be crushed. All US lawmakers who took money from AIPAC should be arrested and jailed.
Even if that is a bridge too far, they must be barred from EVER holding public office again!
BTW, all pastors who said “I stand with Israel” should be deprived of tax-free status. They contributed to a genocide! NO MERCY! It’s NOT about religious freedom because Zionism is a POLITICAL movement that has created its own religion, ”Christian “Zionism, in the Evanglical “Church” which is no longer truly Christian because Jesus did not teach militarism, just the opposite.
There might be a new America on the horizon.
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https://eir.news/2024/07/daily-brief/eir-daily-news-tuesday-july-23-2024/
EIR Daily News • Tuesday, July 23, 2024
By EIR News • 23 Jul 2024
The Lead
A Council of Reason for Statecraft and Truth
by Marcia Merry Baker (EIRNS) — Jul. 22, 2024
This week began in the U.S. with today’s spectacle of the Congressional committee hearing on, “Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump,” in which next to no information came out about the July 13 incident. The head of the U.S. Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle stonewalled; most Representatives fulminated, and the public still awaits the truth, after nine days since the murder attempt. To be sure, elected officials and citizens have grounds to be angry: The Secret Service insists there must be an internal investigation, with results due out not for another 60 days.
Scott Ritter, military expert, has called for an independent investigation, commissioned by a grouping of state authorities. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released a report yesterday by his office, with valuable preliminary findings. He said, “We can’t trust the FBI and the Secret Service to do an honest and open and transparent investigation, that’s just a very sad fact.”
The prevarication and lies about July 13 are in line with the Big Lies foisted on the public about other life and death matters. The lies from the “invisible government” in the U.S. are in line with the NATO lies that President Vladimir Putin is bent on having Russia invade all of Europe in order to re-establish an empire, and that China is menacing the world.
More https://eir.news/2024/07/daily-brief/eir-daily-news-tuesday-july-23-2024/
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Chekhov’s short story The lady with the dog, continued from
https://donhank.substack.com/p/read-ch-i-and-ii-of-chechovs-short
III
At home in Moscow everything was in its winter routine; the stoves were heated, and in the morning it was still dark when the children were having breakfast and getting ready for school, and the nurse would light the lamp for a short time. The frosts had begun already. When the first snow has fallen, on the first day of sledge-driving it is pleasant to see the white ground, the white roofs, to draw soft, delicious breath, and the season brings back the days of one's youth. The old limes and birches, white with hoar-frost, have a good-natured expression; they are nearer to one's heart than cypresses and palms, and near them one doesn't want to be thinking of the sea and the mountains.
Gurov was Moscow born; he arrived in Moscow on a fine frosty day, and when he put on his fur coat and warm gloves, and walked along Petrovka, and when on Saturday evening he heard the ringing of the bells, his recent trip and the places he had seen lost all charm for him. Little by little he became absorbed in Moscow life, greedily read three newspapers a day, and declared he did not read the Moscow papers on principle! He already felt a longing to go to restaurants, clubs, dinner-parties, anniversary celebrations, and he felt flattered at entertaining distinguished lawyers and artists, and at playing cards with a professor at the doctors' club. He could already eat a whole plateful of salt fish and cabbage.
In another month, he fancied, the image of Anna Sergeyevna would be shrouded in a mist in his memory, and only from time to time would visit him in his dreams with a touching smile as others did. But more than a month passed, real winter had come, and everything was still clear in his memory as though he had parted with Anna Sergeyevna only the day before. And his memories glowed more and more vividly. When in the evening stillness he heard from his study the voices of his children, preparing their lessons, or when he listened to a song or the organ at the restaurant, or the storm howled in the chimney, suddenly everything would rise up in his memory: what had happened on the groyne, and the early morning with the mist on the mountains, and the steamer coming from Theodosia, and the kisses. He would pace a long time about his room, remembering it all and smiling; then his memories passed into dreams, and in his fancy the past was mingled with what was to come. Anna Sergeyevna did not visit him in dreams, but followed him about everywhere like a shadow and haunted him. When he shut his eyes he saw her as though she were living before him, and she seemed to him lovelier, younger, tenderer than she was; and he imagined himself finer than he had been in Yalta. In the evenings she peeped out at him from the bookcase, from the fireplace, from the corner -- he heard her breathing, the caressing rustle of her dress. In the street he watched the women, looking for some one like her.
He was tormented by an intense desire to confide his memories to some one. But in his home it was impossible to talk of his love, and he had no one outside; he could not talk to his tenants nor to any one at the bank. And what had he to talk of? Had he been in love, then? Had there been anything beautiful, poetical, or edifying or simply interesting in his relations with Anna Sergeyevna? And there was nothing for him but to talk vaguely of love, of woman, and no one guessed what it meant; only his wife twitched her black eyebrows, and said:
"The part of a lady-killer does not suit you at all, Dimitri."
One evening, coming out of the doctors' club with an official with whom he had been playing cards, he could not resist saying:
"If only you knew what a fascinating woman I made the acquaintance of in Yalta!"
The official got into his sledge and was driving away, but turned suddenly and shouted:
"Dmitri Dmitritch!"
"What?"
"You were right this evening: the sturgeon was a bit too strong!"
These words, so ordinary, for some reason moved Gurov to indignation, and struck him as degrading and unclean. What savage manners, what people! What senseless nights, what uninteresting, uneventful days! The rage for card-playing, the gluttony, the drunkenness, the continual talk always about the same thing. Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it -- just as though one were in a madhouse or a prison.
Gurov did not sleep all night, and was filled with indignation. And he had a headache all next day. And the next night he slept badly; he sat up in bed, thinking, or paced up and down his room. He was sick of his children, sick of the bank; he had no desire to go anywhere or to talk of anything.
In the holidays in December he prepared for a journey, and told his wife he was going to Petersburg to do something in the interests of a young friend -- and he set off for S----. What for? He did not very well know himself. He wanted to see Anna Sergeyevna and to talk with her -- to arrange a meeting, if possible.
He reached S---- in the morning, and took the best room at the hotel, in which the floor was covered with grey army cloth, and on the table was an inkstand, grey with dust and adorned with a figure on horseback, with its hat in its hand and its head broken off. The hotel porter gave him the necessary information; Von Diderits lived in a house of his own in Old Gontcharny Street -- it was not far from the hotel: he was rich and lived in good style, and had his own horses; every one in the town knew him. The porter pronounced the name "Dridirits."
Gurov went without haste to Old Gontcharny Street and found the house. Just opposite the house stretched a long grey fence adorned with nails.
"One would run away from a fence like that," thought Gurov, looking from the fence to the windows of the house and back again.
He considered: to-day was a holiday, and the husband would probably be at home. And in any case it would be tactless to go into the house and upset her. If he were to send her a note it might fall into her husband's hands, and then it might ruin everything. The best thing was to trust to chance. And he kept walking up and down the street by the fence, waiting for the chance. He saw a beggar go in at the gate and dogs fly at him; then an hour later he heard a piano, and the sounds were faint and indistinct. Probably it was Anna Sergeyevna playing. The front door suddenly opened, and an old woman came out, followed by the familiar white Pomeranian. Gurov was on the point of calling to the dog, but his heart began beating violently, and in his excitement he could not remember the dog's name.
He walked up and down, and loathed the grey fence more and more, and by now he thought irritably that Anna Sergeyevna had forgotten him, and was perhaps already amusing herself with some one else, and that that was very natural in a young woman who had nothing to look at from morning till night but that confounded fence. He went back to his hotel room and sat for a long while on the sofa, not knowing what to do, then he had dinner and a long nap.
"How stupid and worrying it is!" he thought when he woke and looked at the dark windows: it was already evening. "Here I've had a good sleep for some reason. What shall I do in the night?"
He sat on the bed, which was covered by a cheap grey blanket, such as one sees in hospitals, and he taunted himself in his vexation:
"So much for the lady with the dog . . . so much for the adventure. . . . You're in a nice fix. . . ."
That morning at the station a poster in large letters had caught his eye. "The Geisha" was to be performed for the first time. He thought of this and went to the theatre.
"It's quite possible she may go to the first performance," he thought.
The theatre was full. As in all provincial theatres, there was a fog above the chandelier, the gallery was noisy and restless; in the front row the local dandies were standing up before the beginning of the performance, with their hands behind them; in the Governor's box the Governor's daughter, wearing a boa, was sitting in the front seat, while the Governor himself lurked modestly behind the curtain with only his hands visible; the orchestra was a long time tuning up; the stage curtain swayed. All the time the audience were coming in and taking their seats Gurov looked at them eagerly.
Anna Sergeyevna, too, came in. She sat down in the third row, and when Gurov looked at her his heart contracted, and he understood clearly that for him there was in the whole world no creature so near, so precious, and so important to him; she, this little woman, in no way remarkable, lost in a provincial crowd, with a vulgar lorgnette in her hand, filled his whole life now, was his sorrow and his joy, the one happiness that he now desired for himself, and to the sounds of the inferior orchestra, of the wretched provincial violins, he thought how lovely she was. He thought and dreamed.
A young man with small side-whiskers, tall and stooping, came in with Anna Sergeyevna and sat down beside her; he bent his head at every step and seemed to be continually bowing. Most likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey. And there really was in his long figure, his side-whiskers, and the small bald patch on his head, something of the flunkey's obsequiousness; his smile was sugary, and in his buttonhole there was some badge of distinction like the number on a waiter.
During the first interval the husband went away to smoke; she remained alone in her stall. Gurov, who was sitting in the stalls, too, went up to her and said in a trembling voice, with a forced smile:
"Good-evening."
She glanced at him and turned pale, then glanced again with horror, unable to believe her eyes, and tightly gripped the fan and the lorgnette in her hands, evidently struggling with herself not to faint. Both were silent. She was sitting, he was standing, frightened by her confusion and not venturing to sit down beside her. The violins and the flute began tuning up. He felt suddenly frightened; it seemed as though all the people in the boxes were looking at them. She got up and went quickly to the door; he followed her, and both walked senselessly along passages, and up and down stairs, and figures in legal, scholastic, and civil service uniforms, all wearing badges, flitted before their eyes. They caught glimpses of ladies, of fur coats hanging on pegs; the draughts blew on them, bringing a smell of stale tobacco. And Gurov, whose heart was beating violently, thought:
"Oh, heavens! Why are these people here and this orchestra! . . ."
And at that instant he recalled how when he had seen Anna Sergeyevna off at the station he had thought that everything was over and they would never meet again. But how far they were still from the end!
On the narrow, gloomy staircase over which was written "To the Amphitheatre," she stopped.
"How you have frightened me!" she said, breathing hard, still pale and overwhelmed. "Oh, how you have frightened me! I am half dead. Why have you come? Why?"
"But do understand, Anna, do understand . . ." he said hastily in a low voice. "I entreat you to understand. . . ."
She looked at him with dread, with entreaty, with love; she looked at him intently, to keep his features more distinctly in her memory.
"I am so unhappy," she went on, not heeding him. "I have thought of nothing but you all the time; I live only in the thought of you. And I wanted to forget, to forget you; but why, oh, why, have you come?"
On the landing above them two schoolboys were smoking and looking down, but that was nothing to Gurov; he drew Anna Sergeyevna to him, and began kissing her face, her cheeks, and her hands.
"What are you doing, what are you doing!" she cried in horror, pushing him away. "We are mad. Go away to-day; go away at once. . . . I beseech you by all that is sacred, I implore you. . . . There are people coming this way!"
Some one was coming up the stairs.
"You must go away," Anna Sergeyevna went on in a whisper. "Do you hear, Dmitri Dmitritch? I will come and see you in Moscow. I have never been happy; I am miserable now, and I never, never shall be happy, never! Don't make me suffer still more! I swear I'll come to Moscow. But now let us part. My precious, good, dear one, we must part!"
She pressed his hand and began rapidly going downstairs, looking round at him, and from her eyes he could see that she really was unhappy. Gurov stood for a little while, listened, then, when all sound had died away, he found his coat and left the theatre.
IV
And Anna Sergeyevna began coming to see him in Moscow. Once in two or three months she left S----, telling her husband that she was going to consult a doctor about an internal complaint -- and her husband believed her, and did not believe her. In Moscow she stayed at the Slaviansky Bazaar hotel, and at once sent a man in a red cap to Gurov. Gurov went to see her, and no one in Moscow knew of it.
Once he was going to see her in this way on a winter morning (the messenger had come the evening before when he was out). With him walked his daughter, whom he wanted to take to school: it was on the way. Snow was falling in big wet flakes.
"It's three degrees above freezing-point, and yet it is snowing," said Gurov to his daughter. "The thaw is only on the surface of the earth; there is quite a different temperature at a greater height in the atmosphere."
"And why are there no thunderstorms in the winter, father?"
He explained that, too. He talked, thinking all the while that he was going to see her, and no living soul knew of it, and probably never would know. He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people; and all that was false in him, the sheath in which he hid himself to conceal the truth -- such, for instance, as his work in the bank, his discussions at the club, his "lower race," his presence with his wife at anniversary festivities -- all that was open. And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy and under the cover of night. All personal life rested on secrecy, and possibly it was partly on that account that civilised man was so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
After leaving his daughter at school, Gurov went on to the Slaviansky Bazaar. He took off his fur coat below, went upstairs, and softly knocked at the door. Anna Sergeyevna, wearing his favourite grey dress, exhausted by the journey and the suspense, had been expecting him since the evening before. She was pale; she looked at him, and did not smile, and he had hardly come in when she fell on his breast. Their kiss was slow and prolonged, as though they had not met for two years.
"Well, how are you getting on there?" he asked. "What news?"
"Wait; I'll tell you directly. . . . I can't talk."
She could not speak; she was crying. She turned away from him, and pressed her handkerchief to her eyes.
"Let her have her cry out. I'll sit down and wait," he thought, and he sat down in an arm-chair.
Then he rang and asked for tea to be brought him, and while he drank his tea she remained standing at the window with her back to him. She was crying from emotion, from the miserable consciousness that their life was so hard for them; they could only meet in secret, hiding themselves from people, like thieves! Was not their life shattered?
"Come, do stop!" he said.
It was evident to him that this love of theirs would not soon be over, that he could not see the end of it. Anna Sergeyevna grew more and more attached to him. She adored him, and it was unthinkable to say to her that it was bound to have an end some day; besides, she would not have believed it!
He went up to her and took her by the shoulders to say something affectionate and cheering, and at that moment he saw himself in the looking-glass.
His hair was already beginning to turn grey. And it seemed strange to him that he had grown so much older, so much plainer during the last few years. The shoulders on which his hands rested were warm and quivering. He felt compassion for this life, still so warm and lovely, but probably already not far from beginning to fade and wither like his own. Why did she love him so much? He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same. And not one of them had been happy with him. Time passed, he had made their acquaintance, got on with them, parted, but he had never once loved; it was anything you like, but not love.
And only now when his head was grey he had fallen properly, really in love -- for the first time in his life.
Anna Sergeyevna and he loved each other like people very close and akin, like husband and wife, like tender friends; it seemed to them that fate itself had meant them for one another, and they could not understand why he had a wife and she a husband; and it was as though they were a pair of birds of passage, caught and forced to live in different cages. They forgave each other for what they were ashamed of in their past, they forgave everything in the present, and felt that this love of theirs had changed them both.
In moments of depression in the past he had comforted himself with any arguments that came into his mind, but now he no longer cared for arguments; he felt profound compassion, he wanted to be sincere and tender. . . .
"Don't cry, my darling," he said. "You've had your cry; that's enough. . . . Let us talk now, let us think of some plan."
Then they spent a long while taking counsel together, talked of how to avoid the necessity for secrecy, for deception, for living in different towns and not seeing each other for long at a time. How could they be free from this intolerable bondage?
"How? How?" he asked, clutching his head. "How?"
And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and splendid life would begin; and it was clear to both of them that they had still a long, long road before them, and that the most complicated and difficult part of it was only just beginning.
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ARABS are, in FACT, Semitic Peoples!! SO.......Netanyahu, as well as MOST in 'Israel', are KHAZARIAN....which are NOT JEWISH!! THEREFORE, it IS the Khazarian State who are, INDEED, the ANTI-SEMITIC!
opinion: Netanyahu guilty of war crimes against humanity.