Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Are They Stupid Or Something?


What's wrong with these people? Every time that the thing seems to have quieted down, and you begin to believe that the world is getting back to normal, someone comes up with something more bizarre than before, and you wonder if these people are stupid or something. This time you have not one, not two but three Jewish lawyers -- prominent in the field of human rights, I might add -- demonstrating in black and white that they know as much about human rights as the bird which my neighbor keeps inside a cage. Their demonstration being a testimony to the reality that the human race is still ailing.

If you want to see for yourself why that is, get a hold of an article published in the Wall Street Journal on May 2, 2012 under the title: “Inciting Genocide Is a crime” and the subtitle: “Even if Iran's radicals could be deterred from attacking Israel, their actions are already illegal under international law.” The article is signed by Robert Bernstein and Stuart Robinowitz both of whom are current members of the so-called Advancing Human Rights, and Irwin Cotler who can be seen everywhere in Canada where he should not be, doing everything he should not be doing and failing to do what he is supposed to do.

The three authors begin their article in the typical Jewish fashion of inciting the reader to hate someone they are about to attack with assertions they have no intention of backing with proof. Here it is: “Many of Iran's crimes are well-known to Americans and observers world-wide.” They list a number of what they call crimes then give the reader this follow-up: “Less recognized, however, is the legal significance of Iran's genocidal anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, which constitutes one of the most serious crimes under international law.” As can be seen, what they complain about is Iran's rhetoric -- nothing more than that. But to counter this rhetoric, they come up with their own rhetoric which is to accuse Iran of committing “serious crimes.” Thus, what we apparently have here is one rhetoric countering another rhetoric.

Now, let us get something clear before going any further. In the balance between free speech and the laws of libel, I can say, for example, that the three lawyers have brains that do not measure up to the brain of my neighbor's bird. What I cannot say without submitting proof is that a test was conducted in a nearby hospital whereby the brains of the lawyers were weighed and were shown to be less massive than that of my neighbor's bird. This would be libelous, therefore criminal.

Let us now suppose that the Iranians did engage in rhetoric injurious to Semites and to Israel. If we reject the notion that two wrongs can make a right, we would have to conclude that the three human right lawyers are as guilty of committing a serious crime as the Iran they accuse of committing serious crimes. What is left for us to do now is weigh the rhetoric of each side, thus determine which of the two is more guilty than the other.

There are two groups of allegations leveled against Iran by the three lawyers. The first group is listed in the first paragraph of the article. It comprises the following: The regime wants to build a nuclear weapon; it supports Syria's Bashar al-Assad; it sponsors terrorism; and it is engaged in domestic repression. The authors do not bother to give any proof of this, and they do not try to expand the discussion. They simply state that these are crimes well known to Americans and to the world. Given that the allegations were stuck in there for the purpose of inciting the reader to hate the Iranians, we dismiss them without further ado for the sake of brevity.

As to the second group of allegations, the lawyers attempt to give proof as to the kind of rhetoric that is used by the Iranians. They mention a website “affiliated with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei” where a declaration of some kind was made. The trouble is that the declaration is reported twice in two different ways in back-to-back sentences. The first reporting is this: “Iran would be justified in killing all Israeli Jews.” The second reporting is this: “...there is 'justification to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel...'” What this says to someone that might be completely detached from the issue is that the Iranian declaration was made in a context that the lawyers are distorting but are not smart enough to do so intelligently.

But to those who have followed the escalating rhetoric between Iran and world Jewry (especially the extremists among American Jews), this is nothing more than Iran's response to the Jewish threat of attacking Iran either by Israel alone or by the combined effort of the Israeli and American militaries. In fact, the rhetoric got so heated at one point that even the mild mannered Secretary of State in America threatened to obliterate Iran. And while it is clear that the Iranian rhetoric reflects a kind of wrestling with the moral issue of having to kill innocent people in the process of defeating Israel's military, the Jewish rhetoric never carries with it a hint that someone regrets what they call “collateral damage.” On the contrary, they describe the death of innocent people as part of the business of conducting a war; or worse, they present it as the fault of the civilian victims who do not leave the scene of combat even if such move were impossible for them to make when there is no time to escape or because the victims have nowhere else to go.

What the three lawyers do after that is throw at the reader the sick joke that used to carry weight but carries weight no more. It is that people used to be hauled to court and tried for denying the Holocaust. Some people even went to jailed for that. I remember a time when the crimes of the Nazis used to stir the emotion even of people who abhorred the Zionist movement. But when the Jewish leaders came up with the notion that to deny the Holocaust is deemed to be crime, they trivialized the Holocaust to such a degree that most people now could not care less about Jews being gassed or cremated or having their skin turned into lampshade. It is just that people have it up to here with being forced to believe in a historical event when they – as Mother Theresa herself – have trouble sometimes believing in the existence of God. Criminalizing the denial of a historical event is now seen as being a stain on the conscience of mankind as bad as the Holocaust itself.

From this point on, the writers formulate a dissertation in which they argue that to incite genocide is recognized in international law as being a crime. They also make the point that to insult Jews by characterizing them as being this or that is a precursor to genocide, therefore a crime as well. It surprises me that Irwin Cotler should sign an article that says such a thing when he is old enough to remember how it was like before the wave of political correctness that swept North America.

He should remember that there was a time when the Arabs were characterized as nonhuman or subhuman: “bloodthirsty, viruses, a metastasizing cancer, mad dogs, wild animals” and so on. Like he and his colleagues are saying, I am inclined to believe that such behavior can lead to genocide but I say so with a caveat. It is that to lead to genocide, you must also have the ability to silence the opposition. In fact, this is what happened here in Canada when I and people like me were silenced and subjected to the cultural genocide of being blacklisted. By contrast, the Jews are more vocal everywhere in the world than anyone else. Because they have the means to respond to every allegation leveled against them, they will not be subjected to genocide even if it is true that the Iranians characterize them as being this or that.

While the Jewish leaders were committing all these horrors in Canada, Irwin Cotler was already a prominent lawyer laboring in the field of human rights or pretending to do so. And yet, he did not lift a finger to put a stop to the Jewish genocide of the Arab character, a genocide that has destroyed many careers I, being the exception that refused to die at the hand of Jewish inhumanity and Jewish treachery. I stayed with it till I had the opportunity to start this website and tell my story.

Like they say it themselves: “Silence is no option.”  Thus, I advise Irwin Cotler to surrender himself to the International Criminal Court and be tried for being silent when crimes were committed against humanity. I say to him: Speak up, Irwin. Speak up against yourself and tell the truth; tell the whole truth.