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  Israpundit: A Role Model for the War on Terror: Jarema Wisniowiecki
Although modern society would regard this as cruel and unusual punishment— it was no worse than the brutal forms of justice that other countries practiced in the seventeenth century— Wisniowiecki is an admirable role model for the modern war on terror.
Israel knew that Yasser Arafat was turning the violence on and off as necessary to suit his own needs but never carried out its duty to protect its citizens by putting a bullet through Arafat's head or a rocket through his office window.
Jarema Wisniowiecki would have done whichever was more convenient with no hesitation whatsoever.
www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/11/a_role_model_fo.php   (946 words)

  
 A Role Model for the War on Terror: Jarema Wisniowiecki
A man or woman who is shanbiony or shanbiona is hardly able to live with his or her own image, far less among others." If Jarema Wisniowiecki preferred death to negotiating with rebels who had actually beaten Polish armies, Israelis who want to negotiate with Palestinian terrorists must be truly shanbiony or shanbiona.
Most of Israel's problems stem from the fact that it gave any ground at all to the Arabs' claims on the West Bank and Gaza, which should have been annexed on the grounds that their previous owners had shown themselves totally unable to honor truces or make a lasting peace.
Jarema Wisniowiecki as portrayed in With Fire and Sword
www.omdurman.org /jarema.html   (2044 words)

  
 The Cossack Wars
Wisniowiecki openly defied the Diet and the treaty with the Cossacks, and gathered forces for further expeditions.
"Jarema " Wisniowiecki was elected Generalissimo of all the forces.
Wisniowiecki brilliantly defended the fortress of Zbaraz on the river Gniezna, a tributary of the Sereth, in Podolia, but the army, under the leadership of the King, was surrounded and routed.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~koby/political/chapter_12/12cossackwar.html   (4087 words)

  
 The Athenian
The large Polish and Jewish communities of the area that were wiped out by Stalin and Hitler respectively date from that period.
Poland's name for Ukraine in that era was "Dzikie pole" - the wild fields, and the territory was controlled by powerful and cruel Ruthenian (Ukrainian) magnates like Jarema Wisniowiecki, and the Cossack raiders of the Zaporozhian Sich (Zaoporozhia = beyond the waterfalls, Sich = habitation).
The Cossacks rebelled against Polish rule in the 1640s, under Bohdan Chmielnicki, the national founder in the Ukrainian mythos, and fell under the influence of Moscow.
blogs.salon.com /0004082/2004/12/01.html   (652 words)

  
 The Hudna or temporary peace: the value of Arab Truces
Chmielnicki sends envoys with a humble and conciliatory letter to the magnate Jarema Wisniowiecki, who is known to be an excellent commander whose soldiers respect him.
Jarema Wisniowiecki cannot be condemned for barbarism according to contemporary standards, as cruel practices like impalement were far from unusual in his day.
If Wisniowiecki preferred death to enduring the shame of negotiating with rebels who had actually beaten Polish armies, Israelis who want to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority must be truly haniebny or haniebna.
www.omdurman.org /hudna.html   (3287 words)

  
 The Elected Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The farcical elections that followed led to the appointment of a Polish nonentity despised by both Bourbon and Habsburg factions, Michal Korybut Wisniowiecki.
During the early 1500s the idea of hiring the Cossacks to guard the Dnieper crossings by building fortresses on its islands was proposed but never developed, it was Dmitri (d.1563), a magnate from Southern Volhynia who independently founded the first Cossack fortress, Niz, at Chortyca, out of which grew the Sicz of Zaporoze.
The farcical elections that followed the resignation of Jan II Kazimierz, the last of the Vasas (1668), led to the appointment of a Polish nonentity, the favourite of the szlachta (the nobility) suspicious of foreigners and seeking a “new Piast”, despised by both Bourbon and Habsburg factions, Jarema’s son, Michal Korybut (b.
www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/ElectedMonarchy.html   (5443 words)

  
 CFI-French/Dutch Player Character Bio's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dismayed and unwilling to accept the cession of his home to the Prussians, he sailed to America with his father's blessing in their fastest merchantman, Jarema Wisniowiecki.
Wisniowiecki got the better of the frigate, but a lucky shot brought down her foremast and allowed Sandfly to escape.
Tragically, a freak accident led to the explosion of Wisniowiecki's powder magazine, and the ship was a total loss; only the Captain and three other survivors were able to swim ashore.
www.cfi-game.org /cfi-pc-f.html   (3598 words)

  
 PKL WEBDESIGN | projekty stron WWW | projekty stron internetowych | profesjonalne projekty stron WWW | profesjonalne ...
Pierwsze miejsce w rankingu polskich stron WWW WPROST i portalu WIRTUALNA POLSKA 1999 dla naszego niekomercyjnego serwisu WWW Jeremi "Jarema" Wiśniowiecki
W listopadzie 2000 serwis Jeremi "Jarema" Wiśniowiecki [http://www.Jarema.art.pl]
W kwietniu 2002 serwis Jeremi "Jarema" Wiśniowiecki [http://www.Jarema.art.pl]
www.stronywww.com /wykonane.php?a=a   (512 words)

  
 The Passing of Poland's Position as a Great Power
"Long live King Michael Wisniowiecki!" was the spontaneous and unanimous reply (1669).
When news of the election of Wisniowiecki, son, of the hated "Jarema," became known to the Cossacks it once again awakened their animosity toward Poland.
In spite of the objections of the Pacs and the Wisniowieckis he was elected.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~koby/political/chapter_13/13passpoland.html   (5165 words)

  
 The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - Poland's Independence Day
That uprising wasn't against "Polish occupation" but against Ruthenian dukes (especially Wisniowiecki) who wanted to turn free cossacks into peasants, and was much more social than national.
Chmielnicki wanted Polish king to help Cossacks against dukes and nobilities, there are letters about that he sent to the king.
Main enemy of Cossacks at that time, Jarema Wisniowiecki, was IIRC grandson of famous Cossack leader Dmytro Wisniowiecki, who created first Cossack Sitch!!!
www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=332&whichpage=3   (9544 words)

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