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Victor Shenderovich - Dmitry Bykov

April 8, 2009 Viktor Shenderovich

Friend of Bykov, dear Dima,
Dear Dmitry Lvovich!

I read in the journal "Profile" your comment on the "Palestinian-Israeli" issue. I read with some delay, but this is a question where, I'm afraid, nothing will ever be out of place ... So I am writing some of my thoughts about your position.

This position in the latest expansion is called "equidistant." This is an elegant and very comfortable position. The equidistant does not get involved in a sweaty and bloody battle, but sadly observes it from the quiet peaks of his intelligence. He grieves about the imperfection of the world. He squeamishly purses his lips to the proposal to decide on sympathies. He loves to quote Bulgakov: "Both of you are good." It is pleasantly standing out with cold irony against the background of spraying saliva and bleeding.

It is generally unpleasant to deal with bleeding blood - he wants to survive, he screams all the time, trying to attract attention. Well, it is in the FIG, inadequate! Whether we are adequate. In time we noticed the desire of the bleeding blood to win our European sympathies and firmly tell him: sorry, Iza, your number will not pass. We have Christian values ​​here in Europe, and you, Iza, Jewish, and do not pretend that this is one and the same! And do not recruit us, Christians, to the associates in your, Iza, a small -town war, fought in your Jewish interests ... Correctly I set out your position, Dmitry Lvovich?

Of course, not right. Of course, I brought her to the grotesque. But there was that to bring to the grotesque ...

So about equidistance. Without delving into a comparative analysis of the ethics of Judaism and Christianity, I will try to explain in simple words.

There are, dear Dmitry Lvovich, a situation where you should not be too thin and educated. When the Nazis cut the Asian in the train, do not plunge too deeply in thinking about the dualism of ethno-religious relations in the post-Soviet space. No need to be equivalent so much.

We must get up and try to prevent blood.

This can only be done by unambiguous and strong -willed support of the one whose life threatens on a national basis. Even if he does not wash his hands before meals, did not read “Mumu” ​​and does not love Christ.

And the more friendly the car rises, the more the chance that the blood will be able to avoid. And the “more equal ones” the passengers will be, the more inevitably the blood flows - and the thinner the line will become between this intellectual equidistance and the transcendental in .. by the point.

The latter does not personally treat you personally, a friend of Bykov, dear Dmitry Lvovich ... We are familiar with a quarter of a century, and I know for sure that you do not care. You honestly reflect and write only what you think; I am not required to convince me of this. It just seems to me that your intellectualism played a cruel joke with you. So the chess player, who considers it deep into ten moves, sometimes admits children's viewing.

No need so deeply, a friend of bulls. Here are the two sides of the conflict: just - some and simple - others. What do we see?

We see a picture quite far from a black and white illustration to the meeting of good and evil. Israeli policy is full of errors and contradictions? Undoubtedly, like any politics. There are fools in it, boasting of their God -chosenness? Oh yes. Is there religious fanatics in it? And then!

But they do not determine the rules of the game, and the death during the war of peaceful Palestinians causes a fierce discussion in the Israeli media and protest demonstrations (protected by the Israeli police).

The mass death of Jews causes only massive ecstatic dances of joy on the streets of Palestinian cities; Dance proportional to the number of killed. And every Palestinian, noticed in the fundamental absence of joy on this subject, will be destroyed - without any metaphors, physically. How the television operator was killed, who managed to fix and transmit to the world the festive Palestinian festivities on September 11, 2001.

What does your Christian soul say about this, Friend Bykov? My, non -Christian and non -Reutoma, and which turned out as a result of reading Russian literature, cannot be equivalent.

I am with those who do not dance with joy on the occasion of mass deaths .

I am with those whom they want to destroy with the children for their belonging to their people - no matter what, and my Jewry has nothing to do with it. I am for Tutsi, not for Hutu!

Once Viktor Nekrasov was strictly noticed: in Babi Yar they shot both the Red Army and just Soviet people, why are you only talking about Jews? He replied: because only Jews were killed here for their nationality ...

Jews continue to kill for the fact that they are Jews. In the Khamasov Palestine, this is taught in elementary school.

However, Jews are, as always, for warm -up. The above dances of joy on the occasion of the death of three thousand Americans (young, old, men, women, adolescents, Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Muslims, white, black, yellow ...) give a sufficient idea of ​​the breadth of the range and plans for the future.

The Israeli policy regarding Palestine can and should argue, realizing, however, the report is that we are talking about attempts by the people to survive Among cannibals. To survive - in conditions when one miscalculation can lead to the death of all.

For numerically cannibals are ten times more, and they have long formulated the task of destroying the hated people in writing as their priority task. And for decades, nothing but the killers and guns of murder have been produced, despite billions of dollars pumped into these thieves from equated Europe.

And do not say that they want peace. The murder of Anvar Sadat, who tried to bring this world to them, they met with the same joyful dances. (The day of the murder by the Jewish fanatic of Yitzhak Rabin is the day of sorrow in Israel; "Feel the difference").

Of course, when I say “they”, I mean the current Palestine as a total political vector. Inside are people, and different people, of course. But under Hitler and under Stalin, there were also different people inside: millions of individual people fall into hostages under any totalitarian regime, and then in unhappy brains the Stockholm syndrome begins to grow silently. There are those who overcome this syndrome and are silent, already fully realizing their fear.

All this does not interfere with us, generalizing, with full right to say: “Hitler Germany”, “Stalin USSR” ...

Hamasovskaya Palestine is a challenge to the European consciousness. And we must squeeze it very much, so as not to see what forces behind this are, which, so to say, ethics rules the ball there, and how these preoccupied servants of Allah see the future of the Earth.

You can deeply and subtly feel the “divorce” of Judaism and Christianity - this is the area of ​​personal faith, and this is outside the comment. You can-not love Israel, Israel pays, pays, and stops. But there are simple things lying, in my modest opinion, outside the discussion.

There is a civilization that scatters leaflets over the positions of the enemy, urging civilians to leave in advance. And there is another, which puts the “Kassams” in the middle of the school, so that more of their own children died on a response, in the name of coming hatred ...

We will discuss what civilization is closer to Christian ethics? We will not - in any case. For, as is said on a different reason, if I must explain, then do not explain.

There is no earthly paradise, a friend of the bulls, but the earthly hell is as much as you like, and in politics we are talking just about this: the degree of remoteness from hell. This, it seems to me, should become the starting point of assessment for any normal person (he, a Christian, Jew, a Muslim or just left his mother to take a walk).

I wanted to tell you about this - like a senior comrade, not stupid and sensitive ...

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From the article by Dmitry Bykov “Not Light ! " (magazine "Profile", No. 10, 2009)

“It's time to call a spade a spade: no Judeo-Christian civilization (and even more so culture) is fighting in the person of Israel with the anti-cyvilization and terrible Arab world. Two Middle Eastern people are fighting, equally cruel and irreconcilable. Yes, on many of those who are fighting from the Israeli side lies a rally of the same Christian culture that is holy for me. They freely quote Brodsky and Mandelstam, as well as friends with a computer. But this raid of civilization does not make them less cruel-on the contrary, such a mimicry is even more dangerous. ”

“... I have exactly one request for these people: I don’t have to prove that they protect my values. Do not call these values ​​of Judeo-Christian. There is no need to establish a connection between the future of Israel and Europe. ”

“... We will not mean the right and guilty, we will not meticulously find out who, in each case, is to blame for the death of civilians ... <...> I am far from the idea of ​​accusing Israel of excessive cruelty and inadequacy of the answer. I ask for one thing: do not try to inspire us that this is our war and that you are protecting us ... "