[lbo-talk] Article on Zhirinovsky's trip to see his father's grave in Israel

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 6 08:39:39 PDT 2006


Apparently he says he wants to become ambassador!!!! (I read yesterday.) Yikes!

--- Bryan Atinsky:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732918.html

The Jewish side of the family By Yossi Melman

It looks like an everyday scene in a cemetery. A man who is no longer young stands, mute and weeping, at his father's grave. This particular scene, however, was fraught with historic irony. The son is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, the third largest in the country. Zhirinovsky, an anti-Semitic nationalist, who has expressed esteem for Hitler, proposed that Russia offer asylum to Yasser Arafat and supported Saddam Hussein, found his father's grave in the Holon cemetery, outside Tel Aviv. Zhirinovskys quest for his roots- in the past he had denied that he had Jewish origins- ended, of all places in the world, in Israel.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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