The poison pens of Zionism

Recently, a group of ex-politicians and friends of Israel presented a petition to the UN, demanding that Iranian leaders be prosecuted for "incitement of hatred" against Israel and for "threatening to wipe it off the map".

The very fact that Israel and its servants have made such a preposterously baseless demand demonstrates not only the self-righteous nature of Zionists, but also testifies to the poor state of the UN to have allowed such a petition to get through its letterbox.

Some of the points that need to be remembered are:

1) Iran does not encourage the violent destruction of Israel and the mass killing of the settlers, however illegitimate their presence in the Palestinian lands may be. The Iranian stance is clear; Tehran calls for an internationally-monitored referendum of all those who are resident of the land and those who have been driven out, irrespective of their ethnic or religious origins.

2) Unlike Israel, Iran is not contemplating military strikes (preemptive or otherwise) against other countries. Aggressive wars -- and threats thereof -- do not seem to be crimes, either legally or morally, when waged by Israel. And yet remarks by Iranian officials become grossly and deliberately mistranslated (as happened in the case of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) to suggest Tehran to have an aggressive nature.

3) Signatories to the petition call for the strengthening of economic sanctions against Iran, which at some point (such as a blockade) will be tantamount to acts of war and which are in any case inherently collective in their effects. Israel is master of collective punishment and mass starvation and although Tel Aviv has been inflicting torments on the Palestinians with impunity, it does not have the means to do so to Iran and therefore needs others to do the dirty-work for it. Hence, this can only be considered an attempt at subverting the UN to justify the collective punishment of Iranians.

4) None of the signatories seem to have any qualms against the dehumanization, starvation, incessant rain of fire and constant collective punishment of the Palestinians and the Israeli denial that they have a right to exist as a nation. Nor do they consider such phrases as the "Axis of Evil" and "Rogue States" as hate-mongering and preludes to aggressive wars by those who coin and use them. For them, it is only one's insufficient love for Israel that seems to constitute a crime.

5) These petitioners suggest that any restoration of land to a forcibly displaced people is an "existential threat" to the colonists, who, in this case, are Zionist settlers, and therefore disingenuously misrepresent Iran's defense of the legitimate birthright of the Palestinians as a supposed "threat to wipe it off the map". Should the rights of the Palestinians, or indeed any other dispossessed and displaced nation, be forgotten the moment they are thrown out at gun-point, lest the aggressors feel threatened? Would this not be a green light to anyone - from near or far - who covets others' land?

Iran's suggested one-state solution and referendum would allow for all the residents of that land to live side-by-side, the way they were before the mass arrival of the Zionists from Europe. By definition, such a state would not be called a "Jewish state" or "Israel", as it would not be founded on ethnic or religious domination of one group over others. Just as the collapse of the Apartheid South Africa did not lead to the extermination of the whites in that country (despite the blood-curdling predictions of many racists a the time), a democratic state in the whole of Palestine will not seek the forcible ejection of the Jews from that land; only the liberation of that land from the racist Zionism, just as all South Africans were freed from the evil of Apartheid."

6) Questioning the extent of the holocaust seems to have become a "crime against humanity"! Not only that, to be given a seat at any Western table, all (and especially the Palestinians) must swear allegiance to the official version of World War II and the other great chapters of world history, incessantly repeating the "Liturgy of the Six Million".

7) Israel has launched aggressive wars against all its neighbors and has -- at various times in history -- occupied territories from all of its neighbors. It is now openly threatening Iran with a war of aggression, by all means at its disposal, including nuclear weapons.

At the end of WWII, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which set the foundation for the present War Crimes Tribunals that these petitioners are appealing to, declared that it is "essentially an evil thing... to initiate a war of aggression".

According to the Nuremberg tribunal, initiating a war of aggression "is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

By waging aggressive wars against ALL its neighbors, Israel has distinguished itself as the most prolific war criminal.

Have (at least the supposed lawyers among) these signatories ignored these legal precedents in their rush to autograph this "complaint" to the UN?

This is an excellent example of the double standards that rule much of the Western political establishment and its efforts to usurp the international legal instruments to punish the oppressed and to protect and reward the aggressor -- which was perhaps not the original intention of those who created them.

What else can be expected when President Nicolas Sarkozy of France -- which holds one of the permanent seats at the Security Council and the current presidency of the European Union -- boasts that he would not share a table with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of his criticism of Israel. Yet the same man who would not shake the hands of an Iranian, kisses the feet of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert -- the destroyer of Lebanon and the chief guard of the concentration camp that is Gaza.

Western leaders need to take a fresh look at their priorities. Did they go into politics to end up like this?

To have any credibility at all, the UN should not only reject this petition, it should use all its resources to end the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. It should also hold Israeli leaders accountable for committing -- and continuing to commit -- blatant crimes against humanity.

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