With all respect to you, I think Chaim has right on this issue! You are Jewish and you didn't feel the bitterness in his words towards Serbs! This guy stocked his nose where he didn't have the right to! why? because he doesn't have any idea who the Serbs are,what is their history about and yet he provoked every single Serb on this site by constantly acussing us ! when I've tried to speak with him about it he said: this is a Jewish site and I'm Jew! Do you want to ban a Jew who suffered under Russians? He attacked me this like he thought that he has the right to do and say whatever he wants just because he is a Jew and I have to shut my mouth because he just was about to bring a lot of his Jew friends and relatives to this site, but if I don't behave , he would not invite a bunch of ppl!
this smelled like blackmale and not a nice conversation!
I think Aryeh was a nice guy, but a hard-liner.
Moderating a forum where some people break forum rules is not an easy task.
I remember I was just the same for my first 2000 posts....
I however avoided to attack or insult other members.
And after that, I even gradually became more tolerant, and less hateful towards my ennemies; such as nazi-muslimes, and nazi-schwartzas.
I had private messages with both of them, will keep contact with Dalmacija via email, and I will especially miss Aryeh, since I don't have his email, and we had interesting political pm's.
Because he was a hard-liner, I respect him, and I am quite sure he was nothing but a true patriottic Jew.
So in the long run, I don't think it would be fair to let him back in, if he calms down a little bit on hatred towards Serbs.
I feel sorry, that I didn't spend more time on the forum to bring the two gentlemen together, and must say I am amazed by the efforts done by 4International to educate Aryeh on the Serbian issue.
Aside these personal matters, I think we should openly discuss the history of and relation between Judaism - Orthodoxy - Catholicism, Israel - post USSR - West Europe - USA in the different contexts we all have.
It seems to me, that the Orthodox members have not yet forgotten their communist oppressors yet,
and the popular speak amongst many Russian - therefore not Serbs! - is indeed that "the Jews" were behind the Soviet rule from Lenin, until the moment Stalin executed most of them.Exactly this, is what I have not enough information about: Is the current Orthodox Patriarch of Moskow encouraging Jew-hatred, or tolerating it?
Are lots of Russians atheists? - that are wanting communism reinstated? - and all the Jews removed from power in Russia?
What does the average Russian think about the so-called "Oligarchs"? Etc,...