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Now it is a wicked world and cynics could be forgiven for thinking that the Iranians may be disingenuous or dishonest in their statements – in which case, of course, there is no basis for any sensible dialogue or discussion at all. However the Americans and Israelis are being demonstrably dishonest and threatening by ignoring (even worse than denying) other Holocausts (including those perpetrated by themselves) and threatening non-nuclear Iran with “pre-emptive” nuclear attack i.e. with unimaginable Prospective Nuclear Holocaust. Furthermore, as correctly observed by the Iranians, the US (Israeli) Resolution ignores other Holocausts (Genocides) such as “the crimes perpetuated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Palestine, Rwanda, and the Balkans …” Nor did the Resolution refer to the non-Jewish victims of the World War 2 Axis Powers – 35 million Chinese, 20 million Soviet citizens, 6 million Poles (half of them Jewish), 1 million Serbs, 0.5 million other Yugoslavs and 0.5 million Roma (Gypsies) (see: HERE ). One CONTINUING Holocaust ignored by the racist Bush-ites, the Racist Zionists and their Coalition confreres is the ongoing Iraqi Genocide that amounts to an Iraqi Holocaust. The World War 2 Jewish Holocaust killed 6 million Jews out of 15 million Jews in the world but how does this compare with the Israeli-backed American Iraqi Genocide - the Iraqi Holocaust? Using UN Population Division and medical literature data it can be estimated that the excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in Iraq under sanctions (1900-2003) totalled 1.7 million and the under-5 infant deaths 1.2 million, noting that the current population is about 28 million. According to a top US medical epidemiology research group - in the World’s top public health department at a top US university (Johns Hopkins), published peer-reviewed in the top medical journal The Lancet and endorsed by 27 top Australian medical experts - the post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths as of October 2006 totalled 655,000. However using Syria and Jordan mortality rates as a baseline revises this figure upwards to 0.9 million. The post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.5 million and the latest UNICEF figures indicate 122,000 under-5 infant deaths annually in Occupied Iraq (see MWC News). This carnage is largely occurring due to gross violation of the Geneva Conventions that demand that Occupiers keep their conquered subjects alive. The annual per capita medical expenditure permitted by the Americans in US-occupied Iraq is a genocidal $58 as compared to about $7,000 in Metropolitan America. Further, about 2 million Iraqis have fled Iraq and there are about 1.7 million Iraqis as refugees within Iraq. What the US and its Allies have been doing in Iraq since 1990 is genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention, which declares that Genocide involves acts committed with intent to destroy a population in whole or in part. “Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” The US and its Coalition accomplices are involved in horrendous Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial in relation to the Iraqi Holocaust. The US is also involved with Israel in appalling nuclear Holocaust Promotion in relation to Iran. Iran’s complaint at the UN of “hypocrisy” is well-justified. US Holocaust Promotion, US Holocaust Commission and US Holocaust Denial all demand comprehensive International Sanctions and Boycotts to bring US Terror and US-Israeli State Terrorism to heel.  Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality --- Other articles by this authorRecommend this article...
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