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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Table of Contents Issue 4 Fall 2010

See in this issue:
ARREST AND INDICT AHMADINEJAD WHEN HE SETS FOOT IN A CIVILIZED COUNTRY. SEE FORMER CANADIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE, IRWIN COTLER'S REVISED CALL TO LEGAL ACTION AGAINST IRAN'S NUCLEAR THREATS. 

See in this issue:
A TIMELINE OF INCITEMENT AND HATE LANGUAGE BY AHMADINEJAD AND OTHER IRANIAN LEADERS.

GPN asks the reader, 'Have you ever been one of those who claimed the quotations from Ahmadinejad about destroying Israel did not read the same way as the original Iranian text, or plain that he doesn't mean it?'

In this issue of GPN, see a gripping, haunting, real-life account of persecution and courage in Darfur.

GPN conveys heartfelt wishes to the peoples of both Pakistan and Nigeria where there has been serious flooding to bear their incredible suffering with as little loss of life as possible. We urge the Pakistan and Nigerian government to undertake maximum rescue and support operations, and for other countries and the United Nations and other international agencies such as the Red Cross to extend the maximum assistance possible.

GPN 'sings' with the people of the entire world in joy and admiration of the rescue of the 33 trapped miners in Chile. The happiness of the reunions and the joy of the community are the side of our human natures that we seek to promote over our also terrifyingly natural human inclinations to kill and destroy human life.



See a Press Release from the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Click here.
A NEW PROPOSAL FOR A WORLDWIDE UNION OF GENOCIDE VICTIM PEOPLES - AND ALL CARING PEOPLE - ON BEHALF OF A RIGHT TO LIFE OF ALL PEOPLE: R 2 L


Quotable:
Elie Wiesel:
“Today of course my obsession is [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahamadinejad, who is the No. 1 Holocaust denier in the world, who publicly and repeatedly has said that he wants to exterminate the Jewish state. I have learned to take the enemy’s threats seriously and therefore, wherever I go, I say this man should be arrested and brought to The Hague and indicted for incitement for a crime against humanity... In that particular crime [genocide], the intent itself is a crime and not only the implementation of the crime.”

He added that it was not inconceivable that a suicide terrorist would try to carry out a nuclear attack. "A suicide terrorist is not someone who wants to die, a suicide terrorist is someone who wants to kill. In order to kill more people he kills himself... How do we know that tomorrow a terrorist will not take a little nuclear device? It's not unthinkable." Wiesel said he stood by a statement he made almost 20 years ago that the greatest danger of the 21st century would be nuclear power in the hands of a fanatic. "Fanatism is bad enough. Give it power and we are all in danger." - -* Evyatar I. (Sep 1, 2010). ‘Give fanaticism power and we're all in danger.’  Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=186739


Editorial by the International Herald Tribune (September 11-12, 2010)
Read the report: Countries that are still enabling Iran need to read the International Atomic Energy Agency's latest report

Iran has spent the last four years ignoring the United Nations' order to stop enriching uranium. And far too many of the world's major players have spent the last four years ignoring Iran's defiance.
Tehran has a long and cynical history of hiding nuclear facilities - including its main enrichment site at Natanz and more recently discovered enrichment facility at Qum. If that isn't enough, an Iranian dissident group said it has found evidence of yet another secret nuclear site. Iran is continuing to refuse to answer questions about whether its hiding other facilities and whether its program has military uses, including a suspected project to fit a nuclear warhead on a missile.
Read the I.A.E.A. report again. Tehran, predictably, insists it is not building a weapon. Its refusal to halt enrichment and cooperate with the I.A.E.A. makes that ever more impossible to believe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS ISSUE 4 FALL 2010



The clock is ticking: The Cotler Report's call to action against Iran's nuclear threats, genocidal incitement, support for genocidal terror, and repression of human rights
GPN Editorial Blog and Introduction to Cotler Report
Irwin Cotler's Renewed Call to Action Against Iran's Nuclear Threats: Responsibility to Prevent Petition



If you ever doubt Ahmadinejad and his colleagues really mean to kill
Yael Stein, Tamar Pileggi, Alex Barnea Burnley
More Mein Kampf: A Chronology of Statements of Incitement and Hate Language by Ahmadinejad and other Iranian Leaders





DARFUR AND SUDAN: A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS WITH A "DARFUR TIMELINE" AND A GPN INTERVIEW OF A DARFUR SURVIVOR
An integrative review that makes sense of the long-since genocide-in-process in a world that knows and does so little
Alex Barnea Burnley, Yael Stein, Elihu D Richter
Darfur and Sudan: A Review and Analysis




A Timeline view of the Darfur-Sudan endlessness
Alex Barnea Burnley
Darfur Timeline: Death Counts





A gripping, haunting, real-life account of persecution and courage in Darfur. The news reports in our Western press and academic publications are pale by comparison.
Andrew Tobin, Alex Barnea Burnley, Nicole Levitan


A's Story: Survivor of Darfur


Al-Bashir Indicted for Genocide by ICC
International Court Adds Genocide Charges against President Al-Bashir


A powerful review essay on a dangerous quite probably genocidal nation-state in our time -- do we recognize the danger sufficiently?
Yael Stein and Elihu D Richter
Suspected Mass Killings - Call them Democide, Politicide, or maybe Genocide in North Korea
With a Timeline of Resolutions on North Korea





Do you remember Sadaam was executed for using poison gas? Are the Turks continuing?
Turks Hit PKK with Chemical Weapons



A public health model generates new tools for preventing genocide
Elihu Richter
Can We Prevent Genocide by Preventing Incitement? Part II
Preventing Genocide by Preventing Hate Language and Incitement: Models from Epidemiology and Public Health





A remarkable university-level instruction on the genocides of many peoples, with a pioneering set of instructional books in Hebrew
Yair Auron
Holocaust and Genocide Education in Israel



When will the Jewish state act more Jewishly and recognize another peoples' genocide?
Israel Awaits Knesset Consideration of Armenian Genocide



A comprehensive and excellent book on denials of the Holocaust, although it bypasses viewing the Holocaust among the genocides of many peoples
The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses
Book by Manfred Gerstenfeld
Reviewer: Israel W. Charny




Harut Sassounian warmly summarizes a talk to the British Parliament about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide as well as the State of Israel's denials, but leaves out a stinging indictment of jihad as a call to destruction - past, present, and future
Harut Sassounian
Dr. Israel Charny Condemns Denial of Armenian Genocide in British Parliament




An address at the British Parliament about the past Armenian Genocide and the current threat of jihad
Israel W. Charny
Confronting Denials of the Armenian Genocide is not only Honoring History, but a Crucial Policy Position for Confronting Threats in our Contemporary World



Another legal victory for us against the deniers
US Massachusetts Court Rejects 'Genocide' Denial



Mr. Erdogan, please keep up the good work - soon Turkey won't have ambassadors left in the world
Harut Sassounian
Advice to Prime Minister Erdogan: Continue Denying the Genocide



Many different ethnic and national groups are increasingly united under a jihad banner
Hamburg Mosque Used by 9/11 Attackers is Closed - Islamic Terrorism is becoming Transnational with a "Connectivity That is Succeeding"



A monument to democratic pluralism, and against Islamic violence or an insult to memory and a capitulation to encroaching Islamic power?
Plan to Build Mosque Near 9/11 Site has Set Off a Bitter Controversy



Finally a verdict for Duch but what is justice for a vicious genocider? And don't count on more indictments of higher-ups in the Cambodian genocide.
A Khmer Rouge Sentence is Denounced as too Lenient while the Cambodia Government Places Obstacles in the Way of Trials of More Senior Genocidal Policymakers



The dangers of appeasement
GPN Editorial Blog
Elihu D. Richter
Sakharov to Obama: Notes on the First Anniversary of the Crushed Iranian Protest Movement




A call for recognition of the genocidal fates of all Ottoman Greeks, and not an exclusive focus on Pontic Greeks
Niklaos Hlamides
Pontic Greeks and the Greek Genocide




Congo is a too-little-known arena of ongoing genocidal killing
52 Rabbis Call for Action to End Killing in Congo




The EU says Turkey is responsible for the murder of Hrant Dink
European Court of Human Rights Finds Turkey Guilty in Murder of Journalist




Japan's new PM avoids shrine to kamikaze and apologizes
Japanese Prime Minister Apologizes for Japan's War Crimes in WWII



FINALE: MAD AHMAD
The Ahmadinejad Case Now Includes Attributing 9/11 to the USA, Denying the Holocaust, and Experiencing the Hidden Imam with him at the UN

How far can the human mind distort?
Ahmadinejad Claims USA Designed 9/11

The surviving rational world reacts
Obama, Ban Ki Moon Condemn Ahmadinejad 9/11 Comments

Sad to report that life-threatening Ahmadinejad gets a friendly hearing at Yale University
Yale Students Meet with Ahmadinejad

Does a government denying the Holocaust also mean anything about its intentions towards Jews in the future?
Ahmadinejad: The Holocaust is a Fairy Tale

Beliefs in a Messiah can be spiritual, but they can also usher in apocalypse now
Khameini and Ahmadinejad Pursue a Messianic Course, but there is a Rift Among Iran's Clerics

A mental health perspective of the man who says 9/11 was executed by the US and who feels the aura of the Hidden Imam when speaking to the UN, Ahmadinejad is not really a clown of our time - he is a menacing reality
Mad Ahmad
A Psychologists' Blog



HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW INFORMATION RESOURCES



THREAT
  • Egyptian Cleric: Hitler was Right to Do what He Did to the Jews
  • Only Much Harsher Sanctions can Halt Iran Nuclear Program
  • Iranian Army General Commander Ataollah Says "I Do Not Think We Will Need More than 11 Days to Wipe Israel Out of Existence"
  • 3 Britons Convicted in Plot to Blow Up Airlines
  • UK neo-Nazi gets 10 years for Planned Chemical Attacks
  • The Legacy of Antisemitism - Quotes from Islam
  • On Al-Jazeera TV: This is a War of Religion, Not Just a War between Arabs and Israelis
  • Video of Uganda Bombing and Survivor's Account at Final Match of World Cup in Uganda
  • Iranian Website: Iranian Nuclear Bomb Spells Death to Israel
  • Reactions in Iran to Gaza Flotilla - Ayatollah Khomeini's Plan to Remove the 'Cancerous Tumor' that is Israel
  • Islam Wants to Establish Supremacy of Allah Everywhere

NEWSPEAK
  • The Winning Cartoons in the Iran Holocaust Cartoon Contest
  • Home of Mohammed Cartoonist Attacked
  • Islam Wants Peace with Israel but Won't Meet with Rabbis or Peres:The New Head Sheikh at Al-Azhar University in Cairo Continues Tantawi's Hateful Doubletalk
  • Antisemitism is the New Form of Holocaust Denials
  • Bomb Plotter Receives Life Sentence: "I didn't mean it when I pledged allegiance to the U.S."
  • Video Post Calling for Muslims in Nigeria to Rise Up Against Christians


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EDITOR'S WELCOME TO ISSUE 4 FALL 2010 OF GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW

Welcome to our readers of Issue 4 of GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW

We Need to Act

This is a powerful issue that protests appeasement, indifference and passivity.

Along with a wide range of news and features about many aspects of many genocides and developments in genocide studies and prevention, this issue of GPN includes powerful reviews and summaries of the developments in IRAN, SUDAN-DARFUR and NORTH KOREA.

We believe that significant real action is called for in respect of IRAN's threats to develop nuclear weapons – see the several years of ridiculously self-righteous denials by people who may mean well in their quest for a peaceful world but who, like in pre World War II days, have played right into the hands of calculating totalitarians who are arming to KILL.

We believe that significant real interventions are called for in respect of SUDAN's evident and ongoing, let alone imminent intensification of genocide – how many more campaigns raising money and writing petitions can we tolerate while the killing goes on without real actions to stop it?

We believe that we need a significantly real policy towards NORTH KOREA that continues its nuclear testing and supplies powerful weaponry to Iran and others, even as it is ruled by a despotic family of dictators who can hardly be counted on to act rationally and humanistically-- and God only knows what and when they will do next.

Granted the needs and challenges are awesome and quite obviously beyond the conventional resources of a USA struggling with aspects of decline, or of our current international system and its several corrupt anti-democratic players. But without a consortium of life-respecting countries sounding an inspired call to protect human life everywhere on the planet, and without a resolution to address the most pressing problems, the dwindling free world is riding for a terrifying apocalyptic fall.

Of all the current problems, we believe the immediate dangers of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of totalitarian regimes and transnational terrorist groups is the most imminent and pressing, and will set the note for the larger survival of our civilization or not. It is getting that bad that the stakes are now reaching towards the global and the survival of our species.

Our message to our scholarly and professional field of genocide studies and prevention is also evident in this issue. We believe the time has come for our discipline to make calculated efforts to translate emerging understanding of the genocidal process into tools for action and projects that aim to impact in a real way on our dangerous world. We want to work toward reducing deaths and injury from intentional violence, the most extreme example of which is genocide. Waxing forth in lecture and seminar rooms while the forces of Talaats/Hitlers/Stalins/Maos/Pol Pots/Miloseviches/Ahmadinejads/Bashirs/and more command, and strut and murder doesn't make any kind of sense, not even allowable academic nonsense. The issues are too serious and real.

R 2 L – Right to Life, A Proposal for a Worldwide Organization of Genocide Victim Peoples

Be sure also to see in this issue a proposal for a WORLDWIDE UNION OF GENOCIDE VICTIM PEOPLES – AND ALL CARING PEOPLE – ON BEHALF OF A RIGHT TO LIFE OF ALL PEOPLE – R 2 L.

What do YOU think? Are the various victim peoples YOU know ready to join in recognizing and caring the for histories of other peoples who have suffered genocide, and to work with them together in an umbrella organization that contributes to the prevention of genocides in our time?


GPN is Winning Accolades and Distribution

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The New GPN Web Site will be up for the Next Issue

In respect of our medium, we are very pleased and almost certain that we can announce that the next issue of GPN – ISSUE 5, WINTER 2011 – will be produced on our new Web site. The publication of Issue 5 will also be accompanied by a re-publication of Issues 1-4 from our current blog site to our new Web site. This means that all materials on GPN to date will be included in the Search services that will be built into our site. We are told by those of our staff who carry the brunt of the design of the computerization that they are a very good quality, and we too are looking forward to begin working with them. We are also told that all of us on the editorial team are going to have to embrace a whole range of new ways of working just as we have grown reasonably comfortable with the workings of the GPN blog. You can wish us successful transitions.

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We wish you good reading and renewed inspiration to act on behalf of human life and against genocide.

Best wishes from all of us on the GPN Staff,
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