Law, Power, and Justice

29 MARCH 2024

UKRAINE

Frank, Dana (3/29/24) “Ukrainians are like children, waiting for someone to save us.  Israelis are more like adults, working together.” Haaretz.

• I am just astounded at this headline.  I am astounded that a Ukrainian would say it and I’m astounded that Haaretz would publish it.
• First of all, Israel is getting billions in weapons and support from the US.  At the moment, Ukraine is getting nothing.  Does the last two years look like people “waiting for someone to save” them?  I don’t think so.  Ukrainians have fought, died, improvised, struggled.  Their fate is the fate of Europe and the rest of the democratically leaning world.
• The woman quoted, according to the article, is a psychologist, a psychologist treating among other people, returning soldiers for PTSD.   What does she tell them?  Oh, just grow up?  Pull yourself together?
• This woman has not fled Ukraine, she is part of a “ball team of moms” who flies back and forth between Israel where she has a home and Ukraine.  She has, however, gotten her children out of Ukraine including a son who is soon to turn 18 and would be subject to the draft.
• I’m sorry, but that doesn’t sound to me like somebody who is “working together” with the rest of Ukraine. 
• I do not see how she can look at herself in the mirror, face another Ukrainian, return to Ukraine.  I cannot explain it and I cannot understand it. 
• Who would make such a flippant statement, during a war, to a reporter?  Who would even think this who knows what is going on in the world.