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| WELCOME TO GPN ISSUE 10, SPRING 2012
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| SPECIAL BULLETIN: ISRAEL KNESSET RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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G P N O R I G I N A L
B R E AK I N G N E W S
See this Special Bulletin on Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Just as we are going to press, the Israeli Knesset held an historic session on the Armenian Genocide, and for the first time in history, the government called on the Knesset to recognize the Armenian Genocide |
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ISRAEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY CALLS ON KNESSET TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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| Issue 10, Spring 2012 |
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| SPECIAL BULLETIN: IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH, SPRING 2012
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G P N O R I G I N A L
G P N S T A F F
This is a Special Section on
IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH
May 2012
It is the lead section of Issue 10, Spring 2012
GPN published it earlier as a Bulletin preceding the 6-nation talks with Iran in Baghdad.
Now this section continues to be relevant to the next scheduled round of talks in June in Moscow.
Breaking News May 25 and May 28, 2012
IRAN ANNOUNCES NEW NUCLEAR SITE
The 6-nation power talks with Iran concluded without any agreement whatsoever other than a decision to renew talks in Moscow.
Several admirably peace-seeking friends of GPN were heard to comment, almost automatically, that if Iran agreed to meet again, the talks remain hopeful. But GPN repeats once again its warning that, fairly likely, Iran may be buying time and more time, and manipulating the world powers artfully, while continuing its steady march toward its goal.
In a startling announcement, Iran's Atomic Energy Chief, Fereydoun Abbasi, announced that Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014.
Source: Telegraph (May 28, 2012) Iran to build new nuclear power plant. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9293290/Iran-to-build-new-nuclear-power-plant.html
IAEA REPORTED TO DISCOVER A BUNKER AT IRAN'S FORDO SITE THAT CAN BE UPGRADED MORE QUICKLY FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON
BBC reports that US inspectors have found traces of uranium enriched at 27%. Analysts say 27% would bring Iran closer to making weapons-grade uranium.
Source: BBC News (May 25, 2012). Iran enrichment 'at higher level' - IAEA. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18213839
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comments: A Haaretz report on the news reflected the tortured confusion in the world. The Haaretz reporter wrote that "one possible meaning… is that Iran is moving closer to the 90%-enrichment level"; but then the reporter added that "another explanation could be" that the Iranian's were busy removing centrifuges that had previously been enriched to this level in order to meet international demands. GPN comments further: The world cannot afford the luxury of a lengthy psychoanalysis.
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Breaking News May 22, 2012
IAEA SAYS SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT IRAN INSPECTIONS, BUT IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT
The Director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, announced an "important development" in his talks with Iran in Tehran. Amano said he reached a "structured agreement" on how inspectors from IAEA "would conduct an investigation into suspected military applications of the Iranian program."
The New York Times described the announcement as "something of a breakthrough," but noted that European diplomats were cautioning that it was still unclear whether Iran would allow investigations of reports that it had "experimented with a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon," and other aspects of nuclear enrichment.
See GPN's caution below in the introduction to the Bulletin.
Source: Associated Press (May 22, 2012). U.N. nuclear chief Yukiya Amano touts Iran inspection deal; Western diplomats skeptical. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57438905/u.n-nuclear-chief-yukiya-amano-touts-iran-inspection-deal-western-diplomats-skeptical/
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Introduction to Special Bulletin Preceding 6-Nation Talks with Iran
In anticipation of a new round of talks with Iran in Baghdad with six major nations including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China beginning May 23, 2012, GPN is publishing a Special Bulletin, IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH, Spring 2012. This section will be republished in the next full issue of GPN in early June.
As we go to press, new bulletins pour in daily. On May 16, it was reported that the well-known RAND Corporation in the United States, regularly an advisor to the Pentagon, warned against a military attack of Iran. Rand stated openly that it differed with the aggressive postures of Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, and that it stands on the side of the former heads of the Mossad and National Security Agency (referring to Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin without naming them). RAND'S team was headed by James Dobbins, Director of the Center for Policy, Defense, and International Security at RAND.
On May 17, the New York Times reported that the American Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, said that "America [is] willing to use military force to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and that "preparations had already been made for a possible attack."
On May 21, Haaretz reported, surprisingly, that Israel may agree to Iranian enrichment of uranium up to 3.5%. Previously Israel had been demanding that Iran give up all uranium enrichment and that Iran give up any uranium it has in its possession. Haaretz reporter Barak Ravid wrote, "Jerusalem may be more flexible about low-level uranium enrichment than it is currently willing to let on." For those in our day and age who still enjoy the concept of Freudian slips, it can be noted wryly that in the corresponding Hebrew edition of Haaretz on this date, Ravid's text reads, "Senior Israeli officials are hardening their positions," but then goes on to give the same story of the new degree of flexibility.
GPN - continuing the editorial position that will be seen further in this section - both applauds the possibility of an agreement by the six nations negotiating with Iran - so long as the agreement includes firmly unlimited freedom for international inspections of all sites in Iran; and at the same time cautions, most seriously, that history is replete with chapters of agreements with totalitarian military dictatorships that in retrospect clearly were intended to be broken and defied. For the latest such instance one need only look at North Korea after the United States and others had celebrated North Korea's agreement to stop military nuclear development, and now North Korea has reopened a closed nuclear facility.
Sources:
Rand Corporation. How to defuse Iran's nuclear threat, bolster diplomacy, Israeli security, and the Iranian citizenry. http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/2012/spring/iran.html
Oren, Amir (May 16, 2012). Rand Corporation advises the Pentagon: Against attacking Iran favors Diskin and Dagan: The American Research Institute has published an article that warns that an attack on Iran will actually strengthen the regime and their nuclear policy. Haaretz Hebrew Edition.
Ravid, Barak (May 21, 2012). Ahead of second round of nuclear talks: Israel inches closer to compromise on Iranian enrichment. Haaretz English Edition.
Rudoren, Jodi (May 17, 2012). US envoy to Israel says nation is ready on Iran. New York Times.
Sang-Hun, Choe (May 21, 2012). North Korea urged to back down on nuclear test. New York Times.
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| Three Quotables for the IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH
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'Iran is Rational'
The Iranian leadership is extremely rational in assessing the consequences of its actions. But its objectives are the pursuit of irrational imperatives of classic radical Islamist motifs of Jihad: Conquest, intimidation, subordination – irrational objectives. These objectives are dangerous and demented; the Iranian leadership is rationally using the implements of modern technology to pursue these objectives.
-- Richter, Elihu and Stein, Yael (March 25, 2012). Iran: Shadowboxing vs. a rationally genocidal regime. Times of Israel. http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-shadow-boxing-vs-a-rationally-genocidal-regime/
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Today, Iran is ruled by a supreme leader who brooks no dissent, countenances no alternative perspectives and seems obsessed with nuclear science. Gone are the pragmatists and reformers who once used their status and power inside the government to edge Khameini away from confrontation. That is the key difference between today's impasse and previous historical encounters with the Islamic Republic.
All is not lost. The task at hand remains to devise an imaginative coercive strategy that moves beyond economic penalties and exploits Khameini's political vulnerabilities in a manner that compels him to expand his coalition and reach out to more moderate elements. Only then can Iran be counted on to negotiate and adhere to a viable arms control treaty.
-- Ray Takeyh, International Herald Tribune, March 20, 2012
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The contaminated area [of Chernobyl] - designated by the Ukranian Parliament as 38,900 square kilometers, or 15,000 square miles, about the size of Switzerland - will be affected for more than 300 years.
-- Ellen Barry, International Herald Tribune, March 21, 2011
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Israel Charny's article "Is Iran Rational?" that was published in Issue 9 of GPN is being republished by the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism in its current issue, though, at the suggestion of the editor of the journal, under a somewhat changed title, "The Irrational Iranians"
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GPN has never said how, but we really mean it that Iran MUST BE STOPPED
G P N O R I G I N A L |
| Israel W. Charny |
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GPN Editorial on IRAN NUCLEAR WATCH: Iran MUST BE STOPPED
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War with Iran is long since underway and more 'science fiction' is on the way
G P N S T O R Y |
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New Cyber War is Under Way
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Understanding messianic thinking and dreams is vital for realistic risk evaluation. See also in this issue: Link between 'Nazi' anti-Semitism and Today's Iran
Excerpts from a booklet by MEMRI |
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Resource Document
The Doctrine of Mahdism
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| Issue 10, Spring 2012 |
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| THE WORLD STRUGGLES TO CREATE TOOLS FOR PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
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| Univer. Southern California Receives Endowments for Armenian and Genocide Studies
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| Reactions to the New U.S. Atrocity Board - Pro, Con and Skeptical
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| The motivation for the Atrocity Board is sound, but it looks like America has given up in Syria |
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America Has Given Up
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| Issue 10, Spring 2012 |
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| Developments in Genocide Studies and Prevention
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| FEATURE ENTRY: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda
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| REPORTS OF GENOCIDES IN PROCESS IN AN IMPOTENT WORLD
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| Syria, An Incremental Genocide
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| Sudan Follow Up: More Killing, No Action by World
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| Quotable for the Section on Armenian Genocide
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U.S. on Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
The United States recognized the Armenia Genocide, starting with 1951, when the U.S. State Department is quoted as saying that there were two examples of genocide in history: the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.
Later, in 1975, the House of Representatives passed a Resolution to Commemorate Armenian Genocide.
In 1981 President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation on Holocaust Remembrance Day recognizing the Armenian Genocide. "Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it -- and like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoples -- the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten."
Sources:
The American Presidency Project, Proclamation 4838 - Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, April 22, 1981. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43727#axzz1s6dgg22h
About.com (Retrieved April 2012). Ronald Reagan marks the Holocaust - - And recognizes the Armenian Genocide. http://middleeast.about.com/od/usmideastpolicy/qt/me090426a.htm
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| Armenian Genocide 2012 - 97th Anniversary
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| A Special Offer: Manfred Gerstenfeld's book, "Europe's Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today's Anti-Semitism" is now available to be downloaded at no cost |
| Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs |
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The Origins of Contemporary Anti-Semitism
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Being a medical doctor helped me a lot because you are focused on living people, not the ones who are dead. When patients are dead, it's a waste of time. "If I could know that my daughters were the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis then I would accept their loss"
-- Izzledin Abuelaish, M.D.
Ed. Note: Dr. Abuelaish lost three of his
daughters - ages 20, 15, and 14 - who were killed by Israeli troops during
the Gaza war in 2009. There are many who question seriously the
possible callousness of these killings as opposed to their being the
tragic fall-outs of a complex shoot-out in a battle zone. Dr. Abuelaish
has remained firmly a man of peace. He has set up a foundation called
"Daughters for Life" to memorialize his children for scholarships for
young women in the Middle East.
Dr. Abuelaish is the author of "I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity", published by Walker and Co., with a foreword by Elie Wiesel - available in hardcover, paperback, MP3, CD, Kindle edition and in an Arabic edition.
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| IN MEMORIAM: IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ 1929-2012
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| Irving Louis Horowitz was the first of the
first three American scholars to publish books in English on genocide, a
great publisher of genocide studies for which we are eternally
grateful,a remarkable social science thinker and a special human being |
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In Memoriam: Irving Louis Horowitz 1929-2012
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| Issue 10, Spring 2012 |
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| THREAT Stories in this Issue
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- The Prophet Ordered the Butchering of 706 Jews - Killing Infidels is a Mitzvah (see translation)
- Neo-Nazi Politician in Greece Announces Confidently, "There Were No Ovens"
- Sudanese Governor of South Kordofan, Wanted by ICC for War Crimes, "Crush Them, Don't Bring Them Back Alive"
- Sudanese President Oman Al-Bashir: "We Want to Liberate Our Brothers in the South from Those Vermin"
IT REALLY HAPPENED
- Taliban in Afghanistan: "We are Here and We Will Launch Attacks Whenever We Want"
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| NEWSPEAK Stories in this Issue
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- Muslim Principles are Used as a Basis for Genocidal Intentions toward Jews
- Human Rights Organizations in Israel go to Court to Bring Charges against the Rabbis who Approved Publicly of the Book, "Torat Halmelech"
- Director of Antisemitic Iranian Film 'Saturday Hunter' Mohammad Qahremani: Arab Presence in Palestine Saves Us from Zionist Global Rule
- China's Communist Party at 90
- Turkish TV Ad: Be a Real Man Like Hitler
- Armenian Weekly Protests against Condoleeza Rice for Denying the Armenian Genocide
NEWSPEAK IN A GOOD WAY
- Assyrian, Greek, Armenian Genocide Anniversary Commemorated Publicly in Turkey
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| Welcome to HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW (HGR) INFORMATION RESOURCES
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| Editor's Welcome to Issue 10
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Dear GPN Reader:
It's "all" here - from our topsy-turvy dangerous though fascinating world: the overwhelmingly serious Iranian nuclear threat, the tragic ongoing genocidal killing in Syria and Sudan that our modern world institutions still handle impotently, critical responses to the new U.S. Atrocity Board, bizarre denials of known genocides -- that continue to include established scholars, a fascinating Feature article on the unique Gacaca courts in Rwanda, commemoration and study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, and more.
In this issue we also publish the amazing record of publishing in genocide by Transaction Publishers under the direction of pioneering genocide scholar, Irving Louis Horowitz, who has just passed away.
The ever useful information resources in the Holocaust and Genocide Review continue to provide excellent entries into a variety of genocide study and prevention activities around the world, including - most proudly by GPN - our unique Directory of Academic Programs on the Holocaust and Genocide, as well as more of a new pioneering series by Marc Sherman of selected curricula of Holocaust and Genocide courses.
SEARCHING GPN - Our quite effective Search function is nearing complete development. All articles and stories are now listed, and beginning selection of material from the Holocaust and Genocide Review is already included. We are working to complete inputting all data from all sections of HGR in the very near future, but you can use the Search function quite profitably already at this time for a good number of topics about genocide.
VERY SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE FOR BOOK OF GPN ISSUES IN 2010 - Gorgias Press (Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) is nearing completion of a two volume set of GPN Issues in 2010. We regret the offered high price (of about $140) this publication, but are truly delighted to be able to offer GPN readers a huge reduction of 70%, to a very reasonable cost of $25 per volume.
To purchase at the reduced price, please send an email to gpn.general@genocidepreventionnow.org with the following information:
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GPN will process your order and submit it to Gorgias Press for the reduced price, Gorgias Press will then advise you of your options for making the payment of $50 for a set of 2 books.
THE FUTURE OF GPN - As announced in the previous issue, GPN will continue to be published by the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem under my editorship until the end of 2012 - we expect there will also be printed volumes of the issues in 2011 and 2012. We are now in serious talks with a number of significant institutions who have expressed an interest in continuing publication of GPN after 2012, and of course we will keep you posted.
Best Wishes,
Israel
Israel W. Charny
Editor-in Chief of GPN
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Executive Director: Prof. Israel W. Charny, Ph.D.
Director of Holocaust and Genocide Review: Marc I Sherman, M.L.S.
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