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Feb 07 2007
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Racist Zionist Islamophobia, Sacrilege & Palestinian Genocide
By Dr. Gideon Polya, MWC chief political editor

ImageAPARTHEID ISRAEL has imposed restrictions on access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site (the site of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension) -  only Muslim men who are married, over 45 years old and have a blue Israeli identity card, as well as all Muslim women, will have access to the Temple Mount. Muslim leaders have protested the restriction of religious observance and threat to the foundations of the mosque (see: HERE ).

This sacrilege and illegal prevention of Muslim worship follows a long history of Israeli abuses connected with the Al-Aqsa Mosque, most notoriously the gross violation by war  criminal Ariel Sharon that deliberately  precipitated the Second Intifada .  A recent gross abuse was the highly offensive labelling a brand of Israeli vodka with a picture of the Dome of the Rock. According to the Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein:  "the marketing of wine bottles with a picture of the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, on them is an Israeli attempt to humiliate Muslims everywhere …putting a picture of a holy shrine on a bottle of wine which is forbidden in Islam is an insult on Islamic creed and Islamic civilization … It is a belligerence on Muslims dignity and passion ”.

However both the physical sacrilege of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the prevention of worship at the Al-Aqsa Mosque are even more offensive. An analogy can illluminate this obscenity for Christians and Catholics in particular - thus imagine that the US-backed Racist Zionists (RZs) took over the Vatican City  and Saint Peter’s Basilica on the basis that it was their property (as well as Jerusalem)  because Saint Peter was Jewish, that Catholicism was an offshoot of Judaism and that both God and Amerika ordain that RZs can do anything they like from stealing the Holy Land and the continuing Palestinian Genocide to adumbrated nuclear devastation of remote, peaceful Iran. 

The global community has International Laws and Conventions governing human rights observance and in particular the behaviour of Occupiers.  The present  physical sacrilege of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and prevention of Muslim worship there by the  racist Zionists (RZs) is a gross violation of key Articles of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War as outlined below [the offences are succinctly described in square brackets].

Article 3 part 1(c) prohibits  “Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment” [sacrilege of a site sacred to 1.5 billion Muslims as well as to Palestinians; occupying Israeli soldiers preventing Muslims from worshipping at the holiest Mosque in the Holy Land and the third most holy site in the Muslim World].

Article 39 part 3 demands that “ They [conquered subjects] shall be allowed to practise their religion and to receive spiritual assistance from ministers of their faith.” [prevention of Muslims worshipping at the Al-Aqsa Mosque; about 50% of Palestinians are Children and Apartheid Israel is forcibly preventing more than 50%  of Muslim Palestinians from worshipping at the Al-Aqsa Mosque].

In addition, the horrendous post-invasion avoidable mortality (0.3 million post-invasion excess deaths) and infant mortality (0.2 million post-invasion under-5 year old infant deaths) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (as estimated from UN Population Division data constitute evidence of gross Israeli violations of the implicit requirement of these Geneva Convention that any Occupier  “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” must provide the life-sustaining requisites necessary for keeping the Conquered Population ALIVE.

Article 38 part 5: "Children under fifteen years, pregnant women and mothers of children under seven years shall benefit by any preferential treatment to the same extent as the nationals of the State concerned." [horrendous differential infant mortality imposed by the RZs – the “annual under-5 year old infant death rate” is 0.47% in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as compared to 0.12% in Occupier Israel ]

Article 55 demands in part that  “To the fullest extent of the means available to it the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate” [post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian Territory  total 0.3 million].

Article 56 demands in part that “To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties” [post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian Territory  total 0.3 million].




 
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