Gideon Polya, “MWC News, Bengali Holocaust, Zionist history & UK Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq”, MWC News, 27 November 2009.
MWC News, Bengali Holocaust, Zionist history & UK Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq
The UK Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq War is widely expected to be a white-wash. Its members are all eminent British Establishment figures variously connected with UK-US collaboration, including a pro-Zionist historian who has variously ignored, downplayed, minimized and excused Britain’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust that killed 6-7 million Indians.
If eminent pro-Zionist historian Sir Martin Gilbert can variously ignore, downplay, minimize and excuse Britain’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British under Churchill deliberately, intentionally and remorseless starved 6-7 million Indians to death in the period 1943-1945, how do we expect him and his fellow British Establishment Chilcot Inquiry colleagues to respond to the 1990-2009 Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide that has (so far) been associated with over 4 million violent and non-violent Iraqi excess deaths, 1.8 million Iraqi under-5 infant deaths and 5-6 million Iraqi refugees? [1, 2].
UK writer Mehdi Hasan has written a cogent analysis in the UK New Statesman entitled “Why I have no faith on the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq”. [3].
Mehdi Hasan has advanced 5 basic reasons for his cynicism:
1. Chilcot himself (British Establishment public servant; “Can someone who acted as a "staff counsellor" to MI6 between 1999 to 2004 be a credible investigator of the flawed intelligence produced on Iraqi WMDs, by MI6, between 2002 and 2003?”.
2. Recent history (“Critics of the war had high hopes for every single one of the four previous Iraq inquiries (Hutton, Butler, ISC, FASC) - and each time their hopes were dashed.”).
3. The composition of the committee (George Eaton writing in the New Statesman has written “The fact that the inquiry's [all UK Establishment] members include Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the architects of the doctrine of 'liberal interventionism', and Sir Martin Gilbert, who once declared that Bush and Blair could "join the ranks of Roosevelt and Churchill", does not inspire confidence.”). [4].
4. The media (“Journalists, especially lobby correspondents, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been too quick to swallow the government line on Iraq.”).
5. Teflon Tony (“The truth about Iraq - the lies, cover-ups, war crimes, torture, etc - has never seemed to stick to Tony Blair.”).
The UK Establishment committee members certainly do not inspire confidence - Sir John Chilcot (career public servant with MI6 connections), Sir Lawrence Freedman (member of US-UK collaboration-promoting Ditchley Foundation, military historian, and Professor of War Studies, King’s College, University College London, his advice on grounds for “liberal” military intervention was used by Blair), Sir Roderic Lyne (Ditchley Foundation member and an adviser to JP Morgan Chase and BP, both involved in Occupied Iraq), Baroness Prashar (Ditchley Foundation member) and Sir Martin Gilbert (pro-Zionist historian and advocate of the Iraq War). [5].
Sir Martin Gilbert is an eminent British historian and an expert on 20th century history, WW1, WW2, Churchill and the Jewish Holocaust. However his utterly unsatisfactory approach to Britain’s and Churchill’s war crimes of the past – notably the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (the first WW2 atrocity to have actually been described as a “Holocaust” and indeed bigger in magnitude than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust) - do not inspire confidence that he will properly address the present Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide.
It can be estimated from authoritative medical literature and UN Agency sources that the 1990-2009 Iraqi Holocaust has so far been associated with over 4 million violent and non-violent excess deaths and refugees totalling 5-6 million – an Iraqi Genocide, with “genocide” as defined by the UN Genocide Convention as “acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part”. In the Iraqi Occupied Territory post-invasion non-violent excess deaths total 1.0 million; post-invasion violent deaths total about 1.3 million; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million; and refugees total 5- 6 million. In addition, excess violent and non-violent excess deaths in Iraq under Sanctions (1990-2003) totalled 1.9 million and under-5 infant deaths 1.2 million.
This constitutes an Iraqi Holocaust and an Iraqi Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention and egregious war crimes due in part to Occupier war criminal non-supply of life-sustaining food and medical requisites demanded unequivocally by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War – thus according to WHO the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” permitted by the Occupiers in Occupied Iraq is US$124 as compared to US$6,714 for the US. [2].
Sir Martin Gilbert was an enthusiastic proponent of the Iraq War and went so far as to state : “Although it can easily be argued that George W Bush and Tony Blair face a far lesser challenge than Roosevelt and Churchill did - that the war on terror is not a third world war - they may well, with the passage of time and the opening of the archives, join the ranks of Roosevelt and Churchill… Churchill and Roosevelt worked together to shape the postwar world. The Atlantic Charter, which they both signed in August 1941, set out the parameters of self-government, free elections and democracy for all those nations that had been subjected to Nazi tyranny. In Iraq, Bush and Blair have adhered to the Atlantic Charter concept. Hussein was overthrown in order that a democratic Iraqi leader could be put in his place, and both leaders are persevering in this task.” [5].
It is a safe prediction that the very terms Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide and the horrendous 1990-2009 death toll of over 4 million Iraqi excess deaths will not be mentioned in the final Chilcot Report – just as Sir Martin Gilbert somehow managed to totally ignore the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians murdered by Churchill) in his “authoritative” biography of Churchill entitled “Churchill. A Life”. Just imagine an authoritative biography of Adolph Hitler that managed to totally omit any mention of the Jewish Holocaust. [6].
Yet Martin Gilbert was certainly aware of the 1943-1945 Bengal famine and devotes several pages to the subject in his “A history of the twentieth century”. However in this book (pages 521-522 and page 725) he underestimates the real death toll of 6-7 million Indians by a factor of about 5 and minimizes the responsibility of the British ruler: “Between 1939 and 1945 disease and hunger had also taken their toll, with war conditions making it much harder to organize alleviation. In Bengal a million and a half Indians had died of starvation.” By way of comparison, David Irving has been lambasted as a holocaust denier for under-estimating the Jewish Holocaust deaths (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation, according to Sir Martin Gilbert) by a factor of about 3 and attributing many death to disease rather than violence. Don’t Bengalis count? [7].
Of course the Ruler is responsible for the Ruled. Churchill, the Ruler of India, was responsible for the mass murder of 6-7 million Indians in Bengal and adjoining provinces in 1943-1945 just as Adolph Hitler was responsible for the deaths of 30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies in the WW2 Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe and George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama are responsible for the over 4 million Iraqi avoidable deaths in the continuing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide.
Sir Martin Gilbert thinks otherwise. In response to an article by me in MWC News entitled “Media lying over Churchill’s crimes. British Indian Holocaust”, the Churchill Centre published a review of the article which stated that it had sought a comment and obtained the following bald denial comment from Professor Sir Martin Gilbert: “Churchill was not responsible for the Bengal Famine. I have been searching for evidence for years: none has turned up. The 1944 Document volume of the official biography [Hillsdale College Press] will resolve this issue finally.” [8].
One can see from this that Sir Martin Gilbert and his colleagues on the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War will not only very likely white-wash the political decision to go to war but will also almost certainly ignore the horrendous human consequences and the war crimes culpability of the perpetrators.
In his 2005 Literature Nobel Prize Address, UK writer Harold Pinter declared “The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading as a last resort all other justifications having failed to justify themselves as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought.”
Four million? More than enough, I would have thought.
[1]. Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History, Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 1998; updated edition 2008).
[2]. Gideon Polya, “The Forgotten Iraqi Genocide”, MWC News, 4 April 2009: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29682/42/ .
[3]. Mehdi Hasan, “Why I have no faith on the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq”. New Statesman, 24 November 2009: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2009/11/chilcott-inquiry-iraq-former#reader-comments .
[4]. George Eaton, “The trap the Iraq Inquiry must avoid”, New Statesman, 23 November 2009: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/fourth-estate/2009/11/iraq-inquiry-planning-disaster .
[5]. Wikipedia,, “The Chilcot Iraq Inquiry”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilcot_Inquiry .
[6]. Martin Gilbert, “Churchill. A life” (Heinemann, London, 1992).
[7]. Martin Gilbert, “A history of the twentieth century”(Harper Collins, London, 1997-1999).
[8]. Gideon Polya, “Anglo holocaust commission, ignore and denial. Churchill’s crimes from Indian Holocaust to Palestinian Genocide”, MWC News, 20 January 2009: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/28002/42/ .