{"id":78809,"date":"2026-08-30T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=78809"},"modified":"2026-08-30T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:50:25","slug":"flashback-zelensky-says-his-goal-is-to-turn-ukraine-into-a-greater-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=78809","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>FLASHBACK: Zelensky Says His Goal is to Turn Ukraine Into a &#8216;Greater Israel&#8217;<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Chris Menahan<br \/>\nInformationLiberation<br \/>\nApr. 05, 2022<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/files\/Volodymyr_Zelensky_in_a_working_visit_to_the_State_of_Israel-2020.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" \/>President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday announced his goal for Ukraine is to turn it into a &#8220;Greater Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mil.in.ua\/en\/news\/security-will-become-our-number-one-priority-ukraine-will-become-a-greater-israel-zelensky\/\">Mil.in.ua, &#8220;Security will become our number one priority. Ukraine will become a &#8216;Greater Israel&#8217; &#8212; Zelensky&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ukraine will not become a &#8220;liberal&#8221; state in the near future, and the issues of security will become our number one priority, said Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, per NV reports.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Ukraine will definitely not be the same as we strived for from the very beginning. It&#8217;s impossible. Completely liberal and European &#8212; it will not be like that. It will definitely stand from the fortress of every house, every building, every person,&#8221; he said during his interview with the Ukrainian journalists.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to the Head of State, Ukraine will become the &#8220;Greater Israel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We will become a &#8216;Greater Israel&#8217; with our own face. We will not be surprised if there are representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in our cinemas and supermarkets; if those places would have people carrying weapons. I am convinced that the issue of security will be the number one priority for us in the next ten years. I am sure of this,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in February, as Russian forces were amassing on Ukraine&#8217;s eastern border, Zelensky was busy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=62898\">getting a law passed to outlaw anti-Semitism<\/a>\u00a0and punish those convicted of violating the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220218152521\/https:\/\/www.holocaustremembrance.com\/resources\/working-definitions-charters\/working-definition-antisemitism\">broad definition<\/a>\u00a0of anti-Semitism with fines and five to eight-year prison sentences.<\/p>\n<p><i>[Header image by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/he.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Volodymyr_Zelensky_in_a_working_visit_to_the_State_of_Israel,_January_2020._VIII.jpg\">Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0via Wikicommons,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 4.0<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=63003\">https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=63003<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78810,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809\/revisions\/78810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}