The Jewish front of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

The triumphal procession of virtual Palestinian independence on the European continent is one of the factors that have consistently and irreversiblyburied the long deceased peace process deep below the ground.

The active surveillance, monitoring, and analysis of anti-Semitic manifestations in Ukraine over the last 25 years allows us to elucidate important tendencies in the dynamic of how this particular brand of xenophobia manifests itself. The number of anti-Semitic incidents has been steadily declining, with a short peak in 2005–2007.

Speech of the Chairman of VAAD Ukraine Josef Zisels at the World Jewish Congress Governing Board session in Berlin, on September 15, 2014

It is too intellectually lazy, not to mention dangerous, to stand on the 50-yard line and assert that the two combatants -- a democratic nation seeking nothing from Gaza other than a quiet border, and a terrorist regime calling in its Charter for the elimination of Israel -- are little more than mirror images of one another.

However, one cannot avoid comparisons with Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Like other countries, Ukraine and its people should have the right to choose their own destiny as a sovereign, democratic nation.