Sunday, September 23, 2012


Iran Has Taken 6 of the 8 Steps on the Path to Genocide

Jewish Holocaust.

(TI).Genocide is neither linear nor “inexorable.” It is, rather, predictable and preventable, so long as you recognize the universal signs. 
And Iran, in its language and action, has taken six of the eight steps on the path to genocide, according to Dr. Gregory Stanton, the world’s foremost expert on the matter. Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, the world’s first organization to deal exclusively with this issue, and the author of an historic two-page paper on the nature of genocide, spoke at the Hebrew University medical school last week. He called for an international campaign to abolish the recurring crime of genocide and for the world to take action, as Canada has, to ostracize Iran and curb its genocidal intent. Talk of genocide, Stanton said - of removing a cancer or crushing a cockroach - is never just talk. “One of the best predictors of genocide is incitement to genocide,” he said, “and I believe that is exactly what Iran is doing today.” 
Genocide Watch founder and director Greg Stanton delivering a lecture at the Hebrew University’s medical school (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel) Encouraging genocide is a crime. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was signed in 1948 and fathered by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish Polish lawyer who studied the genocide of the Armenians and invented the term in 1943 - “genos” meaning race or people and “cide” to kill.
The Convention states that incitement “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” is illegal.
Late last week, on precisely those grounds, Canada severed its ties with Iran. John Baird, the minister of foreign affairs, announced that the Iranian regime “engages in racist anti-Semitic rhetoric and incitement to genocide.” He gave Iranian diplomats five days to leave the country.

Stanton and Dr. Elihu Richter, a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University’s medical school and the founder of the Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention, both hailed the decision.
Richter called it “mighty” and said that the Canadian declaration “sets a powerful precedent for intervening to prevent genocide and genocidal terror by going at the early predictive causes and catalysts, rather than waiting for the body count.” 

The two are seeking to drag Iran before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where state actors can prosecute one another. Neither the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor the Prime Minister’s Office could confirm whether Israel had encouraged Canada to file charges against Iran for incitement to genocide. 

The predictable pattern Recognizing the early signs, spotlighting them and prosecuting those encouraging the killings are some of the ways to prevent a genocide. Ignoring them, dismissing them as diabolical rhetoric or as a tactic meant to advance a different goal, is to enable the perpetrators, Stanton said. 

Raphael Lemkin, top row on the right, with some of the first state representatives to sign the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Often, genocide goes unrecognized. In the opening slide of Stanton’s lecture three perplexed diplomats, clutching attaché cases that label them as representing the EU, the US and the UN, look around at a patch of desert, Darfur, that is stained with the bodies of the dead. 

“Well…” says one; “Genocide, genocide…” says another; “Difficult question…” says the third.
Over the years Stanton realized that all genocides follow eight stages.
They are, in this order: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination and denial. 
Go read the whole thing at The Other News. 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Pasto.

Doesn't this article make you wonder of the 'commitment' of this President towards Israel?
Flashback : April 2012 - Obama's "responsibility to protect" doctrine gives birth to the 'Atrocities Prevention Board'.

A good thing Obama created a new 'office' to prevent genocide.The new board will be chaired by Samantha Powers, the National Security Council senior director for multilateral and humanitarian affairs and another interventionist hawk.Who proposed invading Israel!

.....come to think of it has anyone ever heard anything from them?

Epaminondas said...

"Throughout history the slanders against the Jewish people always preceded the physical assaults and were used to justify those assaults"