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Parent Article: Urbana-Champaign IMC letter on IMC Switzerland |
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WHAT 'neutrality' ? |
by FREE PALESTINE
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04 Mar 2002
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ML is completely whacked. He's been resounding that same theme about the statement being neutral all over the place. But here is the proof that the statement was anything but 'neutral':
"In particular, we must explicitly reject as repugnant the rhetorical device of equating Israeli policy with Nazism, a hyperbolic comparison that is at best tasteless, deeply offensive to most Jews and Germans, and historically untenable."
Such a shocking statement is an insult to the many Palestinians who have died as the result of zionazi genocide. The efforts of zionazis to try to draw distinctions between the criminality of their activities and those of the German nazis represent a falsification of high order. And UC IMC has taken an affirmative stance endorsing the effort to draw distinctions.
ML is probably under the false impression that genocide consists of wiping out a whole people, so that comparisons of zionazis with German nazis are unfair. That's a common idea, but if it were true, then one of the major 20th century holocausts - that of the Jews in World War II - would not equal genocide. About 1/3 of the Jews were wiped out, not even a majority. Yet unquestionably it was genocide. There is no pre-defined "lower limit" for genocide.
What defines "genocide" is not the numbers of people killed, but the INTENTION in killing them. Killing ONE person can be genocide, e.g., the dragging to death in Texas by truck of a man because of his race. This is similar to homicide, which means killing any person, not wiping out the whole human race.
Following is the relevant information from the UN Genocide Convention. Note that the Genocide Convention specifically recognizes "that at ALL periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity" [emphasis added]. And observe that the Genocide Convention defines genocide as follows:
"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" [emphasis added]
A zionazi filth who shoots a child because he is Palestinian has committed genocide, for example.
Sharon's Sabra-Shatila genocide is also covered, as well as all the acts of genocide carried out against the Palestinian people since the onset of the zionist occupation.
There is no question that zionism is a racist, fascist, apartheid nazi master race movement set up for the purpose of ethnically cleansing Palestine of its inhabitants in favor of the zionists.
And if any zionist is offended by this, too bad. I'm too busy being offended by the slaughter of innocent children by zionazis to worry about whether an image or a word bothers the murderers.
At any rate, I've proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that opposing comparisons between nazis and zionazis is emphatically NOT neutrality; rather it excuses the genocidal behaviour of the illegitimate and nonexistent
"state" of "Israel".
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by
General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948
entry into force 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII
The Contracting Parties,
Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world,
Recognizing that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity, and
Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international co-operation is required,
Hereby agree as hereinafter provided:
Article 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article 2
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.
Article 3
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d ) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
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