40th Anniversary Of Racist
Zionist Kidnap Of PalestiniansBy Gideon Polya
05 June, 2007
Countercurrents.orgJune 5 , 1967 marks the 40th anniversary of the carefully planned, criminal attack of Racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel on Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt – and the beginning of a 40 year forcible, abusive and traumatizing Occupation of the Palestinian Occupied Territory by a criminal, racist and genocidal Occupier.
Jerusalem had only been a Jewish-ruled “Jewish” city for a few hundred years of its 3 millennium history (and forcibly so at that, most notably initially by genocide of the Indigenous Inhabitants) and Jerusalem was a Holy City for Christian Palestinians for the last 2 millennia and for Muslim Palestinians and and Muslims generally (currently 1.5 billion in number) for the last 1,600 years. Here is how a War Criminal, Racist, Thief and Conquering General of Racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel described his new “acquisition” – and set the scene for 40 years of Racist Zionist (RZ) propaganda and racist, Goebellsian LYING:.
This morning, the Israel Defense Forces liberated Jerusalem. We have united Jerusalem, the divided capital of Israel. We have returned to the holiest of our holy places, never to part from it again. To our Arab neighbors we extend, also at this hour - and with added emphasis at this hour - our hand in peace. And to our Christian and Muslim fellow citizens, we solemnly promise full religious freedom and rights. We did not come to Jerusalem for the sake of other peoples' holy places, and not to interfere with the adherents of other faiths, but in order to safeguard its entirety, and to live there together with others, in unity."
(see: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Jerusalem+Capital+of+Israel/
40th+Anniversary+of+the+Reunification+of+Jerusalem.htm ).Dayan translated: War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, Ignorance is Strength and 2 plus 2 does not equal 4 (as in George Orwell’s 1984).
The bottom-line is that national self-determination is fundamental to the community of nations and International Law exists so that racist proto-Nazis can’t simply invade, conquer, colonize and take what they want any more (but unfortunately Racist Zionists and Racist Bush-ites linked to US-Israeli State Terrorism simply ignore International Law).
The non-Orwellian, non-Goebellsian reality is that The Invasion was CAREFULLY PRE-PLANNED (as evidenced by clear confessions of Israeli PMs Begin and Rabin and Israeli Generals Hod and Barlev) (see the recent article by Stephen Lendman: http://www.rense.com/general76/forty.htm ) and the subsequent Occupation in gross violation of International Law; major Humanitarian Conventions and numerous UN Resolutions.
The human cost of this carefully planned, criminal act of Israeli State Terrorism (IST) - and its continuance through US-Israeli State Terrorism (USIST) - has been catastrophic for the conquered, kidnapped Palestinians subject to 40 years of abusive occupation: the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) now total 0.3 million and the post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million; Palestinian refugees now total about 7 million with 4.2 million registered with the UN in the Middle East; US- and UK-backed, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, Racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel (AI) is passively killing about 7 Palestinian infants DAILY through war criminal non-supply of life-sustaining requisites to the OPT (UN Population Division, UNHCR and UNICEF data: for detailed analysis see:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13415/42/ ). Below is a detailed summary of this CONTINUING horrendous abuse of humanity and International Law by Apartheid Israel (for detailed discussion see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13415/42/ ):
1. UN Population Division data (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ) indicate that the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) total 0.3 million and the post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (largely avoidable) total 0.2 million. Articles 38, 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Civilian Persons in Time of War (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/7958/26/ ) make it absolutely clear that an Occupier must do everything in its power to preserve the health and lives of its conquered subjects – and ESPECIALLY of Children and Mothers. Three quarters of the Palestinians are Women and Children.
2. The latest UNICEF data (see: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ) (2005 figures) inform that the “annual under-5 infant death rate” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is 23 deaths/1,000 births as compared to 6 in Israel proper and in Australia. Accordingly the “annual avoidable under-5 infant death rate” is 23 – 6 = 17 deaths/1,000 births. UN Population Division data (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ) indicate that the population of the OPT is 3,762,000 and the annual birth rate is 37.5/1,000 of population. Accordingly the annual number of births is 37.5 x 3,762 = 141,075. Accordingly we can calculate that the “annual under-5 infant deaths” in the OPT = 23 x 141.075 = 3,245 and that the “AVOIDABLE annual under-5 infant deaths” in the OPT = 17 x 141.075 = 2,398.
3. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (see: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2000/1/
Terrorism+deaths+in+Israel+-+1920-1999.htm ) states that “from 1920 through 1999, a total of 2,580 residents of Mandatory Palestine and, since 1948, the State of Israel fell victims to hostile enemy action; in most cases, terrorist attacks” and “1,130 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since September 2000.” Deducting the pre-1949 deaths specified on this site yields post-1948 Israeli deaths from “terrorism” as 2,646. Thus EACH YEAR nearly as many Occupied Palestinian under-5 year old infants die AVOIDABLY (2,400) as have Israeli victims of “terrorism” over the LAST SIXTY (60) YEARS (2,600) (for a detailed analysis see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13415/42/ ).4. Notwithstanding racist, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media “terrorism hysteria”, about 80% of homicides in the Holy Land each year are committed by Jewish Israelis (for a detailed and documented analysis see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/7958/26/ ).
5. The latest information from the world's premier refugee care agency, the UNHCR (see: http://www.unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/4444d3c92f.html ) indicates 4.2 million UN-registered Palestinian refugees in the Middle East alone. Israel continues to violate UN Resolution 194 for refugee return. There are some 7 million Palestinian refugees of which 4.2 million are actually registered with the UN.
6. Intifada deaths. The Israeli Human Rights group B’tselem (see: http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Casualties.asp ) estimates that so far (30 April 2007) since September 2000, about 4,100 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis (about 1/5 children) and about 1,000 Israelis (military and civilians) by Palestinians.
7. Ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians. According to a report in leading Australian newspaper The Age: “Melbourne academic Abe Ata says there were 400,000 Palestinian Christians in 1948; today there are 60,000, and falling fast ” i.e. a 85% decrease tantamount to Genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention.
8. The “annual under-5 infant death rate” (2003) was 0.5% (OPT) as compared to 0.1% (occupier Israel) (UN Population Division data).
9. According to UNICEF (see: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ), in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: “Landmines and other unexploded ordnance are an ongoing threat to children; chronic malnutrition affects nearly 10 per cent of children under age five. The situation is most acute in Gaza, where 50,000 children are malnourished; about half of children under age two are anaemic and 70 per cent have vitamin A deficiency …children in nearly a third of all families experience anxiety, phobia or depression”.
10. Post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now total 0.3 million, 1.0 million and 2.4 million, respectively (mostly Women and Children), these figures being consonant with post-invasion under-5 infant deaths of 0.2 million, 0.5 million and 1.9 million, respectively; there are 7 million Palestinian refugees (4.2 million UN registered), 4 million Iraqi refugees and 3.7 million Afghan refugees (UN Population Division and medical literature data; for details and documentation see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13099/26/ and http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13415/42/ ).
This continuing illegal, abusive and deadly 40-year Occupation is an OUTRAGE and calls for (a) URGENT, comprehensive intra-national and inter-national sanctions and boycotts against Racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic Western backers and (b) legal action to bring the racist war criminals to justice. SEVEN (7) Palestinian under-5 year old infants die EVERY DAY due to deliberate, continuing Racist Zionist war crimes.
Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based scientist, academic, lecturer, writer and artist. He recently published a huge pharmacological reference text entitled “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” and has just published a very detailed science/history book entitled “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (a comprehensive scientific analysis of global avoidable mortality and also a unique mortality-related history of all countries in the world: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).
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