In addition to doubts about his actual Jewish status (who is his mother?), his behavior and objects of admiration condemn him.
(BTW, even if proof comes out of a Jewish maternal line, then that would make him Erev Rav, and not of a Yisrael soul.)
First of all, while I don't have access to video to confirm this, you can apparently find English-subtitled clips of his stand-up routines in which he "jokes" about robbing Russians and Jews.
Are you laughing?
I'm not.
We see how much he hates Russians. Apparently, he lumps Jews in the same category...but he simply hasn't acted on it yet.
Or maybe he has. After all, photos and other evidence appear to show him previously aligned with the Ukrainian Nazis organization.
Again, I'm not personally able to confirm this.
But I put it out there as evidence why we should NOT support him or even think of him as more than something gross stuck to the bottom of a dirty sneaker.
Show Me Who Your Heroes are and I'll Show You Who You are
Bandera inspired the Ukrainians to massacre Jews during the Holocaust.
The Great Ukrainian Sleazebag Leader also considers Bandera a national hero.
Furthermore, the Great Ukrainian Sleazebag Leader recently lauded fellow Ukrainian sleazebag, Dimitro Kotsyubaylo, as a hero.
Disturbingly, Kotsyubaylo jokes about feeding the bones of Russian children to his pet wolf.
Please note: He doesn't even make the gruesome joke about Russians, but davka about the children.
Sick.
(FYI: My heroes are Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and Recha Sternbuch.)
The 13-Point Minsk Agreement, What's In It, and Why the Ukraine Would've Been Better Off Submitting to the Agreement
- Immediate, comprehensive ceasefire.
- Withdrawal of heavy weapons by both sides.
- OSCE monitoring.
- Dialogue on interim self-government for Donetsk and Luhansk, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledgement of special status by parliament.
- Pardon, amnesty for fighters.
- Exchange of hostages, prisoners.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Resumption of socioeconomic ties, including pensions.
- Ukraine to restore control of the state border.
- Withdrawal of foreign armed formations, military equipment, mercenaries.
- Constitutional reform in Ukraine including decentralisation, with specific mention of Donetsk and Luhansk.
- Intensify Trilateral Contact Group’s work including representatives of Russia, Ukraine and OSCE.
As you can see, the agreement is perfectly reasonable — especially for a pathetic, incompetent country like the Ukraine.
As evidenced in previous posts, the Ukraine as a newly independent nation was an impoverished, profoundly corrupt, conflicted, bigoted, alcoholic mess.
(Yes, there are good people & successful people there too. But as a society, the numbers show the country as a failure in almost every way.)
The millions of displaced Ukrainians who lost their homes, communities, and livelihoods & now live as undesirable and resented refugees in other countries are NOT better off than they would have been under the Minsk Agreement.
Certainly, the Ukrainians killed or maimed by the war are NOT better off than alive and whole under the Minsk Agreement.
Furthermore, if the nuclear-armed Russian bear decides to put a quick end to the fighting and turn the Ukraine into glass, that is NOT better than agreeing to the Minsk Agreement.
Note: Reports coming out of the Ukraine claim the Ukrainians murder captured Russian soldiers with gory viciousness. No one who knows the history of the Ukraine should be surprised; many Ukrainians throughout history have displayed a particularly bloodthirsty barbarian side. (Ironic how so many of them are ending up in Germany & Poland...)
Rather than continuing to send in Russian soldiers to die and to die in such torturous ways, the Russians might just nuke the Ukraine.
How Do I Despise Thee? Let Me Count the Ways...
Just that alone makes him mud in my book. Everything else just provides more evidence of his despicable character.
Predictably, Ukrainian refugees — mostly non-Jewish — started flooding into Israel. We already have a problem with the negative impact of the vast non-Jewish Soviet immigration to Israel.
Intermarriage, unemployment, anti-Torah positions, alcoholism, pritzus, crime, antisemitic incidents, and support of the same socialist policies that oppress Eastern European countries — all this shot up with the predominantly non-Jewish immigration from Soviet countries.
Furthermore, Eastern Europeans who immigrate to America tend to want to blend into American society.
But in Israel, these same non-Jewish Eastern Europeans tend to want to maintain their culture & make Israeli society more like them.
And I'm genuinely flabbergasted why the Orthodox Jewish media did not immediately cotton on to the real V.Z. and davka did the opposite — they started lauding him.
To me, with my limited access to news & research, the truth about this sleazebag was obvious from the beginning.
With all their access to research, why didn't they see it immediately?
How disgusting that Israel sent its representative to speak directly with the Great Ukrainian Sleazebag and promise him Israel's support.
Not my support!
Why should anyone support him when he is an immoral, greedy, sleazy, psychopathic war-mongering Jew-hater?