Gideon Polya, “False War-mongering Demonization of Iran. Ahmadinejad VS. Zionists & Racist Bush-ites”, MWC News, 25 September 2007, partly cached by Google.
False War-mongering Demonization of Iran. Ahmadinejad VS. Zionists & Racist Bush-ites
I am an agnostic humanist and am opposed to racial, religious and sexual discrimination. Accordingly I disapprove of the moral traditionalist position of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters and the heavy-handed constraints on humanist politics in Iran. That said, and having thus declared my philosophical objections to President Ahmadinejad and his confrères, I must also stand up to be counted in condemning the horrible US-Israeli threats to devastate remote and peaceful Iran and the false vindictive, demonizing of Iran and its democtratically-elected President by the war-mongering Zionists and Racist Bush-ites.
The principal accusations against Ahmadinejad are that (1) he wants to wipe Israel off the map and (2) that he denies the Holocaust. A powerful demolition of
these false assertions by the Zionists and Bush-ites is in the article “Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust?” (see: here), a cogent analysis Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann. The short answer is no.
What Ahmadinejad actually said was (as quoted by the New York Times): "They say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan … Let's take a step back. Our dear Imam [Khomeini] said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine.”
And as reported in a version prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), located in Washington: “They [ask]: 'Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism?' But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and surely can be achieved … Imam [Khomeini] said: 'This regime that is occupying Qods [Jerusalem] must be eliminated from the pages of history.' This sentence is very wise. The issue of Palestine is not an issue on which we can compromise.”
About the Holocaust it is obvious that Ahmadinejad does NOT deny it but objects to the Zionist exploitation of the Holocaust to justify the occupation of Palestine.
Thus the Iranian press agency IRNA renders Ahmadinejad (14 December 2005) as follows: "'If the Europeans are telling the truth in their claim that they have killed six million Jews in the Holocaust during the World War II - which seems they are right in their claim because they insist on it and arrest and imprison those who oppose it, why the Palestinian nation should pay for the crime. Why have they come to the very heart of the Islamic world and are committing crimes against the dear Palestine using their bombs, rockets, missiles and sanctions.' [...] 'If you have committed the crimes so give a piece of your land somewhere in Europe or America and Canada or Alaska to them to set up their own state there.”
Even a CNN report (15 December 2005) rendered this as follows: "If you have burned the Jews why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel. Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?"
A dispatch by Reuters (21 February 2006) confirms official Iranian recognition of the horrible reality of the Jewish Holocaust: "The Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki has … repudiated that his state would want the Jewish state Israel “wiped off the map”…. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been misunderstood. “Nobody can erase a country from the map.” Ahmadinejad was not thinking of the state of Israel but of their regime … “We do not accredit this regime to be legitimate” … Mottaki also accepted that the Holocaust really took place in a way that six million Jews were murdered during the era of National Socialism."
I reiterate that I don't particularly care for President Ahmadinejad and some of his internal policies. However that said, one must respond to the egregiously dishonest, racist, Bush-ite Mainstream media ignoring of the following dozen palpable realities:
(1) Ahamadinejad is the democratically elected ruler of Iran;
(2) apart from inevitable border events, Iran has not invaded any other country for centuries (indeed in recent centuries was subject itself to Portuguese, Russian, British, Turkish, Iraqi and US interference and invasion; the UK-US-backed Iraqi invasion of Iran killed 1.5 million);
(3) Iran does not occupy any other country;
(4) Iran has not articulated threats to invade any other countries;
(5) Iran repeatedly states that it does not want nuclear weapons;
(6) Iran wants to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes;
(7) Iran has signed up to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT);
(8) Iran and 52 other countries (including Ireland, China, India, Russia, Japan, Latin American and some African nations) also voted yes to a recent IAEA Resolution opposing nuclear weapons in the Middle East (47 pro-US-Israel countries abstained, the US and Israel voted NO) (see: here);
(9) As a NPT signatory Iran has the right to build power reactors and to make the fuel rods for the reactors. Iran is allowing inspections;
(10) Ahmadinejad is not a Holocaust denier - he simply objects to dishonest and racist exploitation of the Holocaust to justify Racist Zionist occupation of Muslim countries, notably Palestine;
(11) Ahmadinejad has not said he would wipe Israel off the map - he legitimately asserted that the illegal Zionist regime would and should inevitably disappear (the World overwhelmingly agrees);
(12) Iran provides diplomatic and other support for the democratically-elected Hamas Palestinian Authority of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and for the overwhelmingly Muslim Lebanese-supported Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Let’s go through this checklist of a dozen behaviours of Iran or Ahmadinejad listed above and see how the Zionists, Apartheid Israel and Bush Amerika are behaving in comparison.
(1) The Israeli Government ruling the Holy Land is elected by a MINORITY of the 50% of the inhabitants of the Holy Land who are Jewish Israelis (3.8 million Occupied Palestinians don’t get to vote and many of their democratically-elected representatives are in Israeli prisons). We are all familiar with the appalling Bush-ite violations of the US democratic processes in 2 Presidential elections involving a Mainstream media-brainwashed electorate.
(2) Israel in its short 60 year history has invaded and partly occupied ALL of its neighbours, has completely occupied the Holy Land, has militarily attacked 5 other countries (Tunisia, Uganda, Iraq, Libya and the US – the USS Liberty in 1967 ) and has been complicit in US terrorist atrocities in South America, Africa and the Middle East. The US has actually invaded a swathe of countries, including in the post-war era ALONE, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Serbia and Korea. The US has in addition been involved in terrorism, treason, civil wars, overthrow of elected governments and related crimes throughout the world and has military bases in scores of countries. The post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now (September 2007) total 0.3 million, 1.0 million and 2.5 million, respectively).
(3) Israel presently occupies part of Lebanon, part of Syria and ALL of the Holy Land. The US currently occupies Diego Garcia, Iraq, Afghanistan and part of Cuba. However US surrogates currently occupy Haiti, Somalia, Palestine, part of Lebanon (Shebaa Farms) and part of Syria.
(4) The US and Israel variously repeatedly threaten to attack other countries (Iran being the most threatened country); the Israelis recently bombed Syria and is currently involved in state terrorism in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa; and the US backs Baluchi terrorists attacking Iran from Pakistan.
(5) The US has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world with some 12,000 nuclear weapons; Israel reportedly has some 200 nuclear warheads.
(6) Both the US and Israel have used enriched uranium to make nuclear bombs.
(7) Israel refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; the US is a signatory but violates the NPT by NOT adhering to the nuclear disarmament obligations, by developing new weapons and by supporting the rogue, nuclear terrorist state Israel.
(8) The US and Israel voted NO to the IAEA Resolution opposing nuclear weapons in the Middle East; at the recent vote 47 Western supporters of Israel abstained from the vote; Ireland was the only EU country to vote YES for the motion..
(9) Neither the US nor Israel will allow international inspection of their weapons-related nuclear programs;
(10) The US and Apartheid Israel are gross Holocaust Abusers, Holocaust Committers and Holocaust deniers – they dishonestly exploit the WW2 Jewish Holocaust to justify Racist Zionist occupation of Muslim countries, notably Palestine, and threats to bomb Iran; the US, Israeli and pro-US-Israeli Western media have almost comprehensively ignored recent evidence for 1.2 million post-invasion, violence–related Iraqi deaths (see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16802/42/ );
(11) The racist Bush-ites and racist Zionists support the Zionist regime occupying the whole of the Holy land for over 40 years as well as lands of its neighbours; the human cost of US-Israeli imperialism (outlined in #2) amounts to a Palestinian Genocide, an Iraqi Genocide and an Afghan Genocide with a total of about 15 million refugees, 2.7 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths and nearly 6 million post-war, sanctions and invasion deaths (commensurate with the death toll in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust).
(12) The leading state terrorist countries, the US, Apartheid Israel and their Allies, conveniently classify the democratically-elected Hamas Palestinian Authority of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the overwhelmingly Muslim Lebanese-supported Hezbollah in Lebanon as “terrorists”. Apartheid Israel rejects Palestinian democracy (locking up scores of elected Palestinians and ignoring an overwhelming Occupied Palestinian demand that they leave; ditto, the Racist Bush-ite Coalition has locked up tens of thousands of Indigenous Iraqis and ignores overwhelming Occupied Iraqi demands (by 92% of Iraqi respondents in a recent poll) that they leave).
In the Ahmadinejad versus the genocidal, nuclear terrorist, racist, lying, war-making, foreign country-occupying, holocaust-denying Racist Zionists and Racist Bush-ites, Ahmadinejad comes up smelling of roses.
The false, war-mongering demonization of Ahmadinejad and Iran by the Racist Zionists (RZs), the Racist Bush-ites (RBs) and their racist Allies around the world goes well beyond “the pot calling the kettle black”. It is egregiously false demonizing propaganda as a prelude to the planned war-criminal devastation of a remote, peaceful country, Iran, with a population of over 70 million souls, three quarters of whom are Women and Children.
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. I research and write endlessly about the appalling human cost of the Bush War on Women and Children. Almost despairing but NOT giving up, I have recently tried sending a message of Peace, East-West Amity, Muslim-West Amity and Iran-West Amity by creating HUGE, ecumenical paintings conflating Islamic, Renaissance Italian (Da Vinci Code), Indigenous, and Western Abstract expressionist Art and publishing them on MWC News ( see Rosanna Madonna: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16627/42/ , “Isfahan Matisse”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14417/26/ , Alhambra Pollock: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14082/42/, and “Scheherazade”: (for Peace and Women’s Rights): http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16294/42/ on MWC News).
What can you do in the Bush War on Asian Women and Children? inform everyone about these horrendous crimes against humanity and boycott the people, corporations, businesses, politicians and countries involved in this gross lying, war-mongering and human rights abuse.