Pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel CENSORSHIP by UK Guardian re US & Israeli War Crimes

The UK Guardian’s “Comment is Free” has just published an article by a former British member of the US-funded Israeli Defence Force, one Seth Freedman. I commented on what I described as a “thoughtful article” which simply made the point that in remembering the Allied war dead in World War 1 on Remembrance Day (11 November) one should give pause to think of the Other Soldiers in that conflict and indeed in what the author euphemistically describes as the “Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio” ( in reality an over 40 year Occupation, the continuing abusive imprisonment of 4 million Occupied Palestinians in defiance of UN Charter, UN Security Council Resolution 252, the Geneva Convention, other International Law and the International Court of Justice).

My comment related to our inescapably obligation to observe the key injunctions from the Jewish Holocaust of "zero tolerance for racism", "never again to anyone" and "bear witness". My “bearing witness” to the millions of Women and Children victims of post-1945 Western high technology wars and occupations (including the continuing illegal and war criminal Apartheid Israeli Occupation of Palestine) lasted no more than 30 minutes before being COMPLETELY CENSORED by “a moderator” (see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis... ) . My thoughtful, scholarly comments that finished with a call for Peace with non-racism, equity, justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land are reproduced below.

COMMENTS BY DR GIDEON POLYA CENSORED BY UK GUARDIAN

A thoughtful article by Seth Freedman - we are obliged to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes. However one must object to his using the minimizing euphemism "Israeli-Palestine imbroglio" to describe the over 40 year illegal, genocidal, UN Security Council- and ICJ-defying Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (post-invasion excess deaths 0.3 million, post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 85% of Christians ethnically cleansed, 7 million refugees, 2,400 Occupied Palestinian infant deaths ANNUALLY due to Apartheid Israeli war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention).

An outstanding American analysis of our obligation to understand both Ourselves and the Other is "Death’s Dream Kingdom. The American psyche since 9-11" by Walter Davis (Ohio State U). In short, Professor Davis says we need to understand ourselves by earnest, honest introspection and to empathize and understand the Other. Unfortunately this fundamental obligation is negated by religious fanaticism, nationalism, exceptionalism and what outstanding French-Jewish writer Emmanuel Todd in his "After the Empire" calls "differentialism" (i.e. "racism", as opposed to "universalism").

Davis’ analysis is best seen in terms of the cartoon of the American Bush-ite, neo-Bush-ites, Zionists and Religious Right: they are "saved" by born-again religion or the blind dogmas of the Right (now sorely tested by "socialist" Bush intervention in the market meltdown) - they don’t need to painfully introspect, dogma answers all, they are good, they are"saved". Similarly these fanatics have no need to empathize with the heathen Other (e.g. a swathe of Occupied Subjects of the American Empire now encompassing the foreign-occupied Occupied Territories of Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria, Occupied Iraq, Occupied Diego Garcia, Occupied Afghanistan and US-invaded and robot-bombed Pakistan) - the Other is met with hatred and violence.

Understanding the Other and DEFENDING the other are implicit in the core messages of "zero tolerance for racism", "never again to anyone" and "bear witness" from the Jewish Holocaust (6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) - and indeed also deriving from the generally minimized or forgotten World War 2 Western Theatre Holocaust in general (30 million Slav, Jewish and Roma dead) and the World War 2 Eastern Theatre Holocaust (35 million Chinese dead under the Japanese, 1937-1945 and 6-7 million Indian dead from the man-made Bengali Holocaust in British India) (see: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot... ).

These sacred injunctions from the WW2 holocausts of of "zero tolerance for racism", "never again to anyone" and "bear witness" are grossly violated by the anti-Arab anti-Semitic Zionist fanatics running Apartheid Israel and their genocidal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, war-mongering, Bush-ite, neo-Bush-ite and neo-con supporters (excess deaths in the 1990-2009 Bush Wars now total 9-11 million, most;y women and children; see "9-11 Excuse for US Global Genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: Millions (9-11 million) Dead in Bush Wars": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/251... ).

The Other in wars do not merely include the opposing soldiers - since WW1 modern technology has involved the deliberate mass targetting of civilians as a deliberate part of military strategy to minimize politically-unacceptable military deaths. In WW2 the "civilian/military Death ratio" of "enemy civilian deaths"/own military deaths was about 10 for both Germany and Britain. Indeed Hitler advocated precisely such a ratio in killing reprisals responses to Italian partisan killing of German soldiers (this order leading to the the Ardeatine Caves Massacre by the Nazis).

In Occupied Afghanistan there have been 4-6 million post-invasion excess deaths as compared to about 1,000 Coalition deaths i.e. a "death ratio" of 4,000-6,000. In the Occupied Palestinian Territories the "death ratio" is about 0.3 million Palestinian excess deaths/3,000 Israeli military deaths i.e. 1,000 or about 100 (ONE HUNDRED) times the death ratio advocated by arch-fiend Adolph Hitler.

Despite this horror, its minimization as "2-sided" and its euphemization as a mere "imbroglio", anti-racist humanitarian people such as myself can identify with the fears of the Zionist perpetrators - thus Peace with equity, justice and reconciliation is possible TOMORROW in the Holy Land with the simple, Holocaust-instructed acceptance of non-racism by the Zionists (e.g. for a "seeing the Other" Peace Plan see "HUGE HUMAN COST OF ISRAEL BUT INTERIM PEACE IS POSSIBLE ": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/533/26/ ).

END OF GUARDIAN CENSORED COMMENT

Significant problems with such knee-jerk blanket censorship is that one does not know WHO did the censorship and WHAT the presumed pro-Zionist moderator objected to – my praise for the author’s “thoughtfulness”?; my agreement that we must empathize with the Other?; my resolute adherence to the core injunctions of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust of “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone” and “bearing witness” to immense abuses of Humanity in reporting horrendous avoidable deaths associated with US and Zionist invasion, occupation, devastation and ethnic cleansing of foreign lands?; or perhaps simply my “bearing witness” to the British WW2 atrocity of “6-7 million Indian dead from the man-made Bengali Holocaust in British India) (see: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot... )”?.

One is reminded of the extraordinary conversation reported in Philip Knightley’s book “The First Casualty” - during the First World War, Prime Minister David Lloyd George told C P Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian: "If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don’t know and can’t know" (see outstanding UK-Australian writer John Pilger’s review “The people don’t know and can’t know”: http://evatt.labor.net.au/news/201.html ).

The Nazis wiped my family from the face of Europe and, in addition to fundamental humanitarian obligations, I am accordingly utterly OBLIGED to adhere to the core messages from the Jewish Holocaust of “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone” and “bearing witness”. In relation to the invasion, occupation and devastation of other countries (such as Palestine), I take my cue from outstanding Jewish scholars such as Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT) who has described the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a “Prison” and “the constant intense repression; plenty of abductions; plenty of atrocities in Gaza; the steady takeover of the West Bank, which, in effect, if it continues, is just the murder of a nation, the end of Palestine“ (see: http://www.democracynow.org/2006/7/... ) ; Professor Bertell Ollman (New York University) who has stated that “the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” (see: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/... ). and Professor Jared Diamond, who in his exceptional book “Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin 2007 edition), unequivocally refers to the “moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people.”

Notwithstanding blatant and obnoxious censorship by the secret, Orwellian “Guardians” of public information within the UK Guardian - unidentified, wordless Zionists (?), neocons (?), Bush-ites (?), neo-Bush-ites (?), anti-Arab anti-Semites (?), holocaust ignorers (?), WW2 Bengali Holocaust deniers (?) - I will continue to follow the moral injunctions from the Jewish Holocaust and from outstanding humanitarian Jewish and non-Jewish scholars and continue to “bear witness” to ALL crimes against Humanity.

Censorship is a form of LYING and in the Scientific Culture there is “zero tolerance for lying”. Censorship of horrendous human rights abuses is particularly evil form of lying that is essentially holocaust denial (a crime punished by 10 years in prison in Austria in relation to denial of the Jewish Holocaust). With the world facing acute nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats (as perceived by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), “zero tolerance for lying” must be urgently adopted by everybody in addition to “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone” and “bearing witness”.