OPEN LETTER

ANTIHERO OF OUR TIMES

POGROM IN KIEV

LIGHT OF HOPE

"Who wants this?" This is the question wise ancient roman lawyers started any investigation with. No matter what emotions we have after the wild pogrom of Brodsky's synagogue, we will try to control ourselves and ask only one question: "Who wants this?". Well, let's have a look at the facts.

The national communities of Ukraine express their deep indignation in connection with the pogrom of the Brodsky Kiev Choral Synagogue.

Twice a year all Jews of Kiev gather together to remember the innocent victims of Nazism: in September - it's the anniversary of shootings in Babiy Yar-, and on Nisan 27, the Catastrophe day in Israel.

"A boil should be cut in". This Galin's phrase, which is more than 2000 years old, is applicable not only to medicine. The relations between the "Joint" and Jewish communities in Ukraine are like such boil, which is not going to resolve. Its dissection, as the comments on the article "Next stop - Africa…" show, will be rather painful. Too many tissues and joints will be touched on the way to healing (if it is, in principle possible). Nonetheless, this should be done not to let the most awful thing happen - appearance of metastases which signs, unfortunately, can already be seen in many spheres of the Jewish life.

December 24, 2001 the biggest research center of military strategy and intelligence "Research AFI" published the detailed account on the situation with. Ben Laden and his organization. Its author Richard Bennet asserts Ben Laden is not only alive but he has managed to take all the necessary equipment together with experts away from Afghanistan. Ninety percent of his militants have also survived. The Al-Kaida's network keeps existing in forty countries of the world.