Last Thursday, President Bush,
speaking in the Capitol Rotunda to survivors of "The Holocaust,"
as part of the annual "Days of Remembrance," said Americans are
"bound by conscience" to be sure that the lessons of the
concentration camps outlast the living witnesses. Forgotten during the
"Days of Remembrance" were all the other holocausts--two of
which occurred within the United States, and others that are ongoing.
"Hitlerism was a human
catastrophe which, unfortunately, had a precedent in the policy applied
over five centuries by the European colonialists to 'colored
people,'" writes Roger Garaudy, French Deputy Speaker and Senator, in
"The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics." "What Hitler did
to white people, they did to the American Indians,...just as they did to
the Africans, of which they deported between 10 and 20 million, which
means that Africa was robbed of 100 to 200 million of its inhabitants
since ten people had to be killed for one to be taken alive during capture
by the slave-dealers."
Norman G. Finkelstein,
professor at the City University of New York, whose parents survived Nazi
concentration camps--all other family member were exterminated, writes in
"The
Holocaust Industry," "The number of scholarly studies
devoted to the Nazi Final Solution is conservatively estimated at over
10,000. Consider by comparison scholarship on the hecatomb in Congo.
Between 1891 and 1911, some 10 million Africans perished in the course of
Europe's exploitation of Congolese ivory and rubber resources. Yet, the
first and only scholarly volume in English directly devoted to this topic
was published two years ago."
French military analyst,
Phillipe Delmas, writing in "The Rosy Future of War" says:
"The same Europe that we are now trumpeting as a model of pacifism
has been built by wars, down to the last stone....The two World Wars--only
recently fought--caused 100,000,000 deaths including 60,000,000 civilians.
The Russian and Chinese Revolutions caused at least 50,000,000 more
deaths; actually, historians have recently revised this upward to
100,000,000. As for the 146 little wars since 1945, they have discreetly
exterminated close to 30,000,000 people, three-quarters of them civilians,
and most of them in the name of the world powers....China has endured
Western colonialism, invasion by the Japanese, liberation, and successive
Maoist revolution: all told, China has suffered an estimated 30,000,000 to
60,000,000 deaths."
Peter Dale Scott, a former
Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California,
Berkeley, writes in "U.S. Responsibility for the Slaughters,"
"The massacres we do not hear about, at least at the time, are those
for which the United States itself is responsible. This on-going,
systematic suppression, from the Philippines in the 1950s to El Salvador
in the 1980s, falsifies our understanding, not just of our own history,
but of all managed atrocities throughout the world."
Regrardless of the cost in
human lives, in Africa, in Iraq, and elsewhere, divide and rule remains
the policy.
Dr. Eric Herring, the Iraq
sanctions specialist at Bristol University, says that "U.S. and
British decision-makers have exploited popular humanitarian sentiment for
the most cynical Realpolitik reasons. They have no desire for the Shi'ite
majority to take control or for the Kurds to gain independence. Their
policy is to keep them strong enough to cause trouble for Saddam Hussein
while ensuring that Saddam Hussein is strong enough to keep repressing
them. This is a direct descendant of British imperial policy from the
First World War onwards [and is about the control] of Iraqi oil...Divide
and rule was and is the policy."
Dr. Robert Dickson Crane,
co-founder of the Center for Strategic Studies at Georgetown University,
and foreign policy advisor in the Nixon administration, writes: "The
current tragedy [in Sudan] results from the deliberate colonialist policy
of Great Britain more than a century ago to put two totally different
peoples into one administrative unit in order to better carry out its
policy of divide and conquer....From my own proprietary knowledge as a
government official, I know that the Israeli Mossad has tried to
orchestrate the war between the south and the north, and the CIA has
funded it, for more than thirty years. The objective is to pit black
Africa against Arab Africa and thereby reduce the Arab, and now the
Muslim, threat to Israel."
Until recently, "the Nazi
holocaust barely figured in American life," says Prof. Finkelstein.
"Everything changed with the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war....it was
only after this conflict that The Holocaust became a fixture in American
Jewish life....[since then] it has been used to justify criminal policies
of the Israeli state and U.S. support for those policies."
Prof. Finkelstein sees the
federally funded Holocaust museum on the Washington Mall as
"incongruous." "Imagine the wailing accusations of
hypocrisy here," he says, "were Germany to build a national
museum in Berlin to commemorate not the Nazi genocide but American slavery
or the extermination of the Native Americans."
Mr. Enver Masud is
an engineering management consultant, author of "The War on
Islam," and founder of The Wisdom
Fund - http://www.twf.org
Source:
by courtesy & © 2001 Enver Masud
& The Wisdom Fund
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