Holocaust Denial

A modus operandi has been established, but is it really new?

It goes like this: Strong country pulverizes weak country whilst calling weak country a “rogue” or “terrorist” state. When population of weak country is at its lowest ebb, when barely anything that you’d expect to need for the normal running of a human society works, when the people are starving, strong country carpet bombs weak country back into the dark ages in the guise of “self-defence”. Rest of the “civilised” world says that the weak country “had it coming”.

In Iraq, years of devastating sanctions weakened the country and resulted in the deaths of a million people, half of them children. Madeline Albright (no prizes for guessing which Middle Eastern country she put first) affirmed on the record that according to her, the deaths of half a million Iraqi, Arab, Muslim children was a price worth paying. She has since expressed regret for that remark. A bit like dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and then saying “whoops, sorry!”

Then the First Gulf War destroyed Iraqi infrastructure and left the country devastated and further weakened.

Finally, a weakened Iraq, but one still proud and coping, with a female literacy rate higher than the United States (no surprise there, many Americans still think Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11) was utterly pillaged, looted and raped. Over a million dead and four million displaced, this is a Holocaust. A real one. Today. We said “never again”, but really, let’s face it, that was just for the Jews. It’s “Again and Again” for the Muslims.

No crime that we have a word for hasn’t been committed by the imperialist aggressors. When we ran out of old words, we even invented new terms for old crimes. Tourists and journalists rounded up by warlords for the promise of bounty, were hooded, shackled and shipped to Guantanamo Bay where for years, they have been stripped of their humanity through torture and persecution. We call them “illegal combatants” and deny them, along with the untold thousands held in CIA or CIA-client dungeons around the world, habeas corpus.

And now in Gaza, the Jewish supremacist, racist and apartheid machinery of Israel blows up hundreds of human beings and injures many hundreds more and the world leaders urge Palestinians to stop defending themselves.

A few weeks ago, a false flag operation in Mumbai was called “India’s 9/11″. Arundhati Roy quite brilliantly ridiculed that notion. It’s a very odd pattern. A false flag attack, almost invariably with Zionist undertones, is blamed on a weak country. That weak country is further weakened and then destroyed. It won’t be so easy to destroy Pakistan of course, as nuclear armageddon would surely follow.

Palestine, sadly, has no defensive capability at all. So for years, Israel has been supported in its Nazi ambition to crush the life out of Palestine. Scarcely imaginable brutality has been meted out on a daily basis to millions of Palestinians, washed down with bitter, humiliating tears.

So while hundreds have been killed, Nazisrael and its racist, Islamophobic supporters around the world, the Hasbara-parrots and the imperialists have been rejoicing – and allowed to rejoice openly at this suffering. Meanwhile, the mainstream media, dominated by Jewish interests, whilst still staunchly pro-Israel and anti-Islam, in some quarters seems to be allowing some of the news through, even if it continues to spin this dirty massacre, Gaza’s 9/11, as some kind of justified “defensive retaliation”.

Since the truce expired (it had actually been ended early by Israel killing civilians with missiles again), none of the rockets fired on Israel had actually killed or even injured anyone. The whole world knew that Nazisrael was readying itself to strike against defenseless civilians in the largest concentration camp in the world after collectively punishing them.

Of course, we know what to expect of the Nazi regime in Israel. They are a bunch of hateful murderers spreading terror around the world and behaving like Nazis. Nothing new there. We also know what to expect of many of Israel’s citizens, with attitudes that should be punishable by a life-sentence in a concentration camp. (Yes, I mean forced relocation to Gaza.) An Israeli mother, Mechi Fendel from Sderot said of the deaths in Gaza today “What’s been happening in Gaza is fantastic.” What kind of offspring will that putrid and hateful womb have produced? And that’s not to mention the extremist, terrorist settlers who bully, beat and kill Palestinians every day with the open collusion and support of watching Israeli police and cheering IDF “heroes”.

What has really upset many Muslims around the world though is the craven betrayal of Arab states. Livni having tea with Mubarak in Egypt just a few days ago sticks out. Sticks out badly. I understand that Israel has one of the strongest armies in the world and nuclear weapons, but where is the Arab support for Palestine? Where is the international pressure? Where are the boycotts? Where?

As Gaza ran out of morgue space and world-weary, shell-shocked civilians picked up the remains of their incinerated children, a racist Jew, Ofer Shmerling – Israeli civil defense official said to Al-Jazeera: “I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.”