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Incitement To Genocide

Could there conceivably exist a more evil, transparently wretched human rights abuse than a state espousing the elimination of another, and with it the eradication of an entire ethnic group? Not that there is anything particularly new about the phenomenon. Been there, done that. The world looked back in horror with the realization that Nazi Germany fought two wars; one an overt battle with its Axis supporters against the Western-based Allies to achieve dominance over the world as an exemplary state of superior beings.

And the second was a semi-covert operation to which fascist Germany allocated scarce funding, dedicated resources that might have availed war-time advantage deployed elsewhere in the actual theatres of war. A sacrifice of time, personnel, funding, materials and technology for a singular purpose: to totally eradicate European Jewry. To extract from other European countries which the Nazis had overrun, their Jews, for the purpose of total annihilation. Perfecting a protocol and a mechanism whereby lives of men, women and children could be expedited into oblivion.

And succeeding singularly well. Millions of people died in the military campaigns of World War II. And then there were the mentally ill, the physically fragile and compromised, gypsies, homosexuals, political dissenters - all targeted for incarceration in death camps, work camps. And one group comprised solely of members of a particular 'race', an ethnic grouping with a tradition and a heritage dating back millennia in history set apart as representing a sub-human anomaly, a blight upon humanity, bearing commonality with primordial sludge.

With the defeat of the Axis powers, and the discovery of the extent of the Nazi dedication to obliterating Jews from the face of the Earth, the enormity of what that catastrophic event represented stunned the international community. It needn't have. There were many politicians and heads of state and international bodies that held a clear understanding of what was occurring. While deplorable, it was held to be a distraction from the main event.

Jews were generally held in such questionable esteem that one country after another simply turned away hopelessly desperate refugees on ships commissioned to take them to safety from the Holocaust. Including ships conveying refugee Jewish children. All spurned, all forced to return from where they had embarked. And to face the inevitable. But the World, post-conflict, swore it would never again permit any event so all-encompassing, so horrendous, to re-occur.

And we know where that led. We've seen Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, all unfortunate events of history, reflecting in large part humanity's inability to forestall horrendous events of mass murder, deliberate attempts at genocidal cleansing. And look here, the Jews who were targeted for annihilation in 1939 have their counterpart in the Jews slated for obliteration in 2009.

For there is nothing quiet and covert about the stated determination of a theistic fascism declaring their intent to repeat the Holocaust. While steadfastly denying the historical occurrence of the original.

A perniciously backward and paranoid regime in Iran which yet arrogantly declares itself the inheritor of Islamic might and right, is able to stand in the United Nations, address the General Assembly, and have their president declare their intent to destroy Israel. That same nation, the same president which claims its God-given right, its status as a sovereign country, to own nuclear technology.

Unabashedly certain of their position in the world as the premier Islamist nation, expressing a universal distrust, grievance and hatred toward another UN member-country that this distinct threat can be repeated with confidence, time and again in the public sphere.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not alone in representing Iranian public policy; a former president and head of the Iranian military, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani added his polished world view.

In an interview he made the boast than an Iranian nuclear attack would be successful in killing up to five million Jews. A counter-attack by Israel would result in approximately fifteen million dead Iranians, he estimated. All expendable in the greater search for re-dedicating the geography Israel sits upon to Islam. Iran's dead would be considered a small 'sacrifice' from among the billions of Muslims world-wide.

And Iranians and Iran are not fearful of facing death. They believe that the End of Days is nigh, when the Hidden Imam will return, and Doomsday will be transformed to the 'Golden Age', bringing bounty and blessings to those who worship the true religion. Those infidels who do not worship Islam will lose their way in life. They have nothing to lose in sacrificing Muslim lives to advance that agenda. Heavenly bliss awaits.

Labels: Israel, Middle East, Political Realities, Religion

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, May 16, 2009