Gideon Polya, “How to stop US-Israeli State Terrorism. What can we do?”, MWC News, 2 August 2006, partly cached by Google.
How to stop US-Israeli State Terrorism. What can we do?
QANA is another appalling atrocity in 90 years of European colonial atrocities in the Middle East. This saga of racism, war, colonial occupation, colonization and ethnic cleansing commenced with the 1916 Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement (dividing up Arab countries between Britain and France); progressed with the 1917 British Balfour Declaration (making Mandated Palestine a National Home for Jews – albeit with the caveat that there should be no detriment to the Indigenous Arab inhabitants that is now conveniently forgotten it seems by everybody but the victims); solidified with the creation of the UN-sanctioned State of Israel (accompanied by genocidal expulsion of 0.7 million Palestinians, resulting today in 6 million Palestinian refugees in the Middle East alone); and explicitly racist, violent, colonial, and genocidal Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza (together with at various times major slabs of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria).
Now an impotent world is seeing egregious RACISM as well as continuing war crimes and genocide in the Middle East on an awful scale. Commentators are freely speculating about extension of the latest Israeli War on its neighbours (another War on Women and Children) to include Syria (enabling Israeli-US hegemony from the Sinai to the Euphrates) and to Iran (enabling Israeli-US hegemony almost from the Nile to the Indus in an obscene mimicry of the conquests of Alexander the Great in about 330 BC).
The crimes of racist Zionism and Bush-Blair "Christian Zionism" (democratic imperialism, democratic tyranny or democratic Nazism) against Arabs and Muslims were horrendous BEFORE the latest Israeli War on Arab Women and Children. Thus the post-invasion avoidable mortality (excess mortality, avoidable deaths) in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories total 0.3, 0.5 and 2.0 million, respectively - 60% under-5 year old infants and variously due to Israeli, UK, US, Coalition and NATO violation of the Geneva Convention.
The latest Israeli War on Women and Children has killed about 1,000, wounded thousands, made about 1 million homeless, threatens genocide in Southern Lebanon, and has devastated infrastructure with the likelihood of over 40,000 avoidable deaths ANNUALLY if Palestine and Lebanon are bombed and shelled to a "UK-US-occupied Iraq" scenario (for a detailed analysis see MWC News ).
Westerners who support the war criminal bombing and shelling of their OWN citizens by war criminal Israeli State Terrorism are traitors and terrorist sympathizers - and should be dealt with by Shaming, the Law, Boycotts and the Ballot Box.
It is not only Palestinian and Lebanese who are being war criminally targeted by the Israeli Wehrmacht. Westerners should also be concerned over what is happening to their OWN citizens in Lebanon - about 140,000 Western citizens (25,000 Australians, 25,000 Americans, 50,000 Canadians, 20,000 Britishers and 20,000 French citizens) have been bombed and shelled by the Israelis for 2 weeks - but only the French Government has demanded a cessation.
As an Australian I am angered that OUR neo-con and slavishly Bush-ite Government supports the continuing Israeli devastation of Lebanon and Palestine and hence the continuing bombing and shelling of our OWN citizens - and our cowardly Labor Opposition is too scared of the US Ambassador and the vitriolic Israel Lobby to say boo. Only the sensible and humane Australian Greens have demanded immediate bipartisan cessation of the violence.
Westerners who support the war criminal bombing and shelling of their OWN citizens by war criminal Israeli State Terrorism are traitors and terrorist sympathizers - and should be dealt with by Shaming, the Law, Boycotts and the Ballot Box.
Decent Westerners thus have a dual problem that is (A) international and (B) domestic.
(A). Racist Israeli war and genocide is a gross violation of humanity, a gross affront to decent humanity and constitutes a dire threat to us all – if the USIST war criminals can continue to do this then it simply means that “might is right”, anyone can do it, and International law and International Convention simply go out the window (as with the effective collapse of the League of Nations in the face of violent Nazism in the 1930s).
(B). Ultrazionists and the fanatical Pro-Israel Lobby have perverted our democratic processes, institutions, media and politicians (as dramatically demonstrated by refusal of relevant Western Governments – other than the French – to demand a cessation of the bombing and shelling of their OWN citizens by war criminal Israel State Terrorists). However this goes much further. Ultrazionist-promulgated “terror hysteria” has involved most of the Western democracies in horrendous war crimes associated with US-led “democratic imperialism”. Western civil liberties have been seriously compromised by Nazi-style anti-Terror Laws that are wisely applied to Muslim non-state terrorists or their sympathizers but NOT to the vastly more dangerous supporters and effectors of racist State Terrorism.
WHAT can we do? What MUST we do to stop racist, genocidal US-Israeli State Terrorism (USIST)?
Actually “USIST” is a very appropriate acronym. Just as “sexists” “use” women, so “USISTs” have a pathological narcissist, self-awarded licence to “use” anything and everything” they choose to, regardless. The US USISTs have a “right” to the resources of the whole world to the exclusion of the minimal claims of others. The Ultrazionist USISTs simply insist that whole world must bow to their demands – they simply IGNORE decisions of the International Court of Justice or the UN General Assembly, or the demands of the Geneva, Hague, Universal Hunan Rights, Rights of the Child and UN Genocide Conventions. Worried (or rather, slightly perturbed) by the implications of the International Criminal Court, or the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, they simply refuse to sign on. USISTS are narcissistic, solipsistic and “special” – regarding Americans as “God’s Own” or the Israelis as “God’s Chosen”.
Here is a “shopping list” of things decent, non-violent, pro-peace, anti-racist, anti-terrorism citizens of the world can do – and we can all make a start NOW
1. PEACE. Peace is the only way – indeed USIST thrives on typically ineffectual counter-violence that is grossly exaggerated as “terror” by Mainstream media. Thus the “annual homicide rate” in Israel is 45/million as compared to 54 in the United States. However the “annual homicide rate” for the Israel-occupied Holy Land is 124/million and over 80% of the homicides are by Jewish Israelis, mostly young soldiers (see MWC News).
2. DIAGNOSIS. Know thy enemy. Walter Davis’ outstanding “Deaths Dream Kingdom. The American psyche since 9-11” (Pluto, London, 2006) analyses the conservative political exploitation of mass psychological infantalism involving a psychotic refusal to empathize with others or to even engage with oneself. This mass pathological narcissism has horrible implications for the world that have been substantially realized in post-1950 US wars that have been associated (so far) with 18 million avoidable deaths.
3. RECOGNITION. We swim in a sea of lies. The most important thing about the USIST War on Terror is how many people have died as a consequence. About 7,000 Western civilians have been killed by Muslim-origin non-state terrorists in the last 40 years but the post-invasion avoidable deaths from the USIST War on Terror now totals about 2.5 million in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan alone. The USIST diversion of the world from the real problems of economic disparity, global warming and global avoidable mortality is costing 16 million avoidable deaths each year.
4. REALITY. Understanding the consequences of UNIST actions is difficult because lying Mainstream Media will simply not tell you. However there is a plethora of outstanding and expert writers one can read such as Tariq Ali, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Arundhati Roy, George Monbiot, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Dahr Jamail, William Blum, James Lovelock (“The Revenge of Gaia”) and Emmanuel Todd (read a translation of his “After the Empire. The breakdown of the American Order”). Even more powerful is when the truth comes from the “horse’s mouth” as in Philip Agee’s “Inside the Company. CIA Diary” (Penguin, London, 1975) and John Perkins’ horrifying “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” (Ebury, London, 2005).
5. INFORM. Decent people are obliged to inform others about immense abuses of human rights, and about the horrendous consequences of racist USIST policies. Silence kills and silence is complicity. A crucial step will involve getting John Doe to understand that the VIOLENT deaths are just the 5% tip of the iceberg – 95% of the avoidable deaths from USIST violence are NON-VIOLENT deaths from deprivation and malnourishment-related disease. Thus post-invasion VIOLENT deaths total about 50,000 in Iraq but the total post-invasion avoidable deaths (including the NON-VIOLENT deaths) totals about 0.5 million.
6. SHAME. Racist, genocidal USIST violence is now targeting Western civilians. Notwithstanding the ugly racist reality that the neo-con “politically correct racists“ (PC racists) evidently don’t regard “Lebanese-origin citizens” as “real citizens”, they indubitably ARE. Westerners who support the war criminal bombing and shelling of their OWN citizens by war criminal Israeli State Terrorism are traitors and terrorist sympathizers - and should be dealt with by Shaming, the Law, commercial Boycotts and the Ballot Box. Thought experiment - would you befriend, assist, have any dealings with or vote for a traitor, a terrorist sympathizer or an unrepentant Nazi?
7. SANCTIONS & BOYCOTTS. International sanctions and boycotts worked against the racist Apartheid régime in South Africa (notwithstanding USIST flouting of the sanctions) and should be urgently applied – indeed as neo-con-advocated “free market choice” - to halt USIST war crimes. Would you buy soap made in Auschwitz?
8. ENDLESS WAR ON RACISM & VIOLENCE. The USISTs have declared an “endless war” on humanity that has already manifested as an appalling war on Women and Children. Decent humanity should IMMEDIATELY launch a Peaceful counter-offensive that will persist until the USISTs and indeed EVERYONE – like the Germans in 1945 – adhere to the post-Holocaust protocol denoted C4A (CAAAA): Cessation of violence, Acknowledgment of the crimes, Apology, Amends and Assertion of non-repetition, of “Never again”.