<html>
<body>
<font size=3><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=5>Politically Correct Racism
Sustains Israel and US
Empire</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <br>
</font><font size=1>
<a href="http://www.aljazeerah.info/9%20o/Politically%20Correct%20Racism%20Sustains%20Israel%20and%20US%20Empire%20By%20Gideon%20Polya.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aljazeerah.info/9%20o/Politically%20Correct%20Racism%20Sustains%20Israel%20and%20US%20Empire%20By%20Gideon%20Polya.htm<br>
</a></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>By Gideon Polya <br><br>
Al-Jazeerah, January 9, 2006<br><br>
Violent domination of other countries by an imperialist nation is
implicitly racist and is certainly recognized as such by the victims, if
not by the citizenry of the occupying country. Thus the violent
occupation of Gaza, the Golan and the West Bank is clearly illegal and
racist but the majority of Israelis and Jews complicit in this occupation
would not regard themselves as racist – the more so because of the
abhorrent Nazi German racism that killed 6 million Jews in the World War
2 Jewish Holocaust. There has to be a “story” that somehow “justifies”
racist criminality to the citizens supporting it. Thus the Israeli
“story” that has been successfully “sold” to a majority of their own
population and to an arguable majority of Westerners is of the “need for
a civilized Jewish State totally secure from kamikaze Arab terrorism”.
The success of the “story” depends upon violent racists convincing others
that they are not – dishonest conduct that can be called “politically
correct racism” or “PC racism”. <br><br>
Violent, racist occupation of other countries is expensive in terms of
military hardware and military lives. The huge cost of the military in
the US (current annual military budget about $500 billion) provides a
huge resource for pro-war lobbying by the military-industrial complex.
However the dominant US non-military economic sector has a different
agenda and US military deaths are extremely politically sensitive.
Accordingly, the war-mongers and war-makers need to sell their agenda
effectively – and words are much cheaper than military hardware and
soldiers. The Bush Administration “story” over Iraq has slowly evolved as
its dishonesties have been progressively revealed, but fundamentally the
“official” line, supported by most of Congress and the Senate (but
perhaps by as few as 40% of US citizens now), is now that “the US is in
Iraq out of its desire for Arab freedom and democracy”. <br><br>
Propaganda is cheap and of huge political and military strategic value.
The racism implicit in any Empire has to be hidden by saturation
propaganda - or else backed up by additional extremely expensive
violence. While huge military expenditure provides a huge lobbying budget
for the US military-industrial complex, US military casualties remain an
inescapable political liability that requires massive propaganda and
mainstream media lying by omission and commission. The racism and
horrendous realities of Israeli occupation and US Empire both require
comprehensive denial for public palatability – and thus both complicit
politicians and complicit mainstream media exhibit what can be called
“politically correct racism” (PC racism). In short, the PC racist
war-makers and war-mongers dishonestly assert their political correctness
and non-racism, while simultaneously ensuring public ignorance of the
actual horrendous human cost of their activities. <br><br>
For those utterly dispirited by the apparent success of the lying, racism
and violence of the war-makers and the occupiers there is some hope and
comfort in the reality that the truth will out. The bottom line reality
in any rational human discussion should be respect for human life – which
is precisely why the generally dishonest and PC racist Anglo-American
media will resolutely NOT report the horrendous human cost associated
with war and occupation in the Middle East and Central Asia. However,
using publicly-available UN Population Division data it is possible to
provide quantitative estimates of the horrendous human cost of these
conflicts. Using such data I have extensively researched post-1950
“avoidable global mortality” (technically “excess mortality”), which is
the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country and the deaths
EXPECTED for a peaceful, decently run country with the same demographics.
The results are horrendous (see:
<a href="http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/">
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/</a>). <br><br>
The post-invasion avoidable mortality (excess mortality) in the Occupied
Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now totals about 0.3, 0.5 and
1.6 million, respectively, while the corresponding post-invasion under-5
infant mortality now totals 0.2, 0.3 and 1.4 million, respectively (see
Senate Inquiry submission #112:
<a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/terrorism/index.htm">
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/terrorism/index.htm</a>
). Most of these deaths were non-violent – thus Iraq Body Count
(see:
<a href="http://www.iraqbodycount.org/">http://www.iraqbodycount.org/</a>
) currently estimates that 27,000-31,000 Iraqis have been killed
violently post-invasion (out of an estimated total of 0.5 million
post-invasion avoidable deaths). UK-US state terrorism – described by
Blair and Bush supporters as “democratic imperialism” (but by others as
democratic tyranny, democratic Nazism or UK-US state terrorism) - has had
an horrendous human cost, with under-5 infant mortality now totalling
about 0.5 MILLION EACH YEAR in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories.
<br><br>
Politically correct racism (PC racism) permits immensely destructive and
criminal UK-US democratic imperialism and US Empire – because PC racist
Anglo-American mainstream media will simply NOT report the horrendous
human cost. According to the latest UNICEF report (January 2006)
(UN-REPORTED by mainstream media), in 2004 the under-5 infant mortality
was 122,000 in Occupied Iraq, 359,000 in Occupied Afghanistan and 1,000
in the occupying country Australia (noting that in 2004 the populations
of these countries were 28.1 million, 28.6 million and 19.9 million,
respectively)(see:
<a href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html">
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html</a>). About 1,300
under-5 year old infants will have died in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan
on Christmas Day 2005 alone, 0.5 million will die in the coming year and
1.7 million have died post-invasion due to non-provision by the US-led
Coalition of life-preserving requisites demanded by the Geneva
Conventions (see:
<a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm">
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm</a>). <br><br>
UK-US-Israeli “politically correct racism” has been a startling strategic
and public relations success - allowing the war criminals to commit and
benefit from the worst racist crimes while, with mainstream media
complicity, convincing much of the world of their high ideals and
humanity. How can decent and honest humanity respond to indecent and
dishonest PC racism? Great writers such as Arundhati Roy, John Pilger and
Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter have called for international trials of the
Coalition leaders as war criminals. Indeed a detailed, formal complaint
has been recently sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) charging
the Coalition with war crimes in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan (see:
<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/us-polya211205.htm">
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-polya211205.htm</a>). Others
should also lodge formal complaints with the ICC. <br><br>
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. As
individuals we must all resolve to speak out and act ethically in our
business and other dealings with people and countries complicit in the
crimes of UK-US-Israeli state terrorism. As well illustrated with the
collapse of Apartheid in South Africa, the lesser Anglo-American criminal
accomplices are more vulnerable to peaceful international action than the
UK and the US. Thus Australia is tightly linked to Anglo-American
violence and imperialism. Politically correct racist Australian media are
currently (legitimately and passionately) exposing Japanese killing of
1,000 WHALES ANNUALLY but will simply NOT report the passive murder by
the US-led Coalition of 1,300 MUSLIM INFANTS DAILY in the Occupied Iraqi
and Afghan Territories. Why should Asian and Muslim overseas students
study in Australian universities when Australia is SILENTLY COMPLICIT in
the horrendous mass murder, mass infanticide and passive genocide of
Asian and Muslim children? Fundamentally, we must all oppose the utter
evil of politically correct racism by INFORMING EVERYONE – the truth must
out. <br><br>
Dr Gideon Polya <br><br>
Melbourne, Australia <br><br>
e-mail:
<a href="mailto:gpolya@optusnet.com.au">gpolya@optusnet.com.au</a>
<br><br>
Credentials: Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade
scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
"Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor
& Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently editing a
recently completed book on global avoidable mortality (numerous articles
on this matter can be found by a simple Google search for "Gideon
Polya" and on his website:
<a href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html">
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html</a>). <br><br>
</font><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font size=3 color="#FF0000">The Freedom Archives<br>
522 Valencia Street<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
(415) 863-9977<br>
</font><font size=3>
<a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.freedomarchives.org</a></font></body>
</html>