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 Welcome to the Fall 2010 Issue 4 of GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW

See in this issue:
ARREST AND INDICT AHMADINEJAD WHEN HE SETS FOOT IN A CIVILIZED COUNTRY. CLICK HERE TO SEE FORMER CANADIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE, IRWIN COTLER'S REVISED CALL TO LEGAL ACTION AGAINST IRAN'S NUCLEAR THREATS. 

See in this issue:
A TIMELINE OF INCITEMENT AND HATE LANGUAGE BY AHMADINEJAD AND OTHER IRANIAN LEADERS.

GPN asks the reader, 'Have you ever been one of those who claimed the quotations from Ahmadinejad about destroying Israel did not read the same way as the original Iranian text, or plain that he doesn't mean it?'

In this issue of GPN, see a gripping, haunting, real-life account of persecution and courage in Darfur.

GPN conveys heartfelt wishes to the peoples of both Pakistan and Nigeria where there has been serious flooding to bear their incredible suffering with as little loss of life as possible. We urge the Pakistan and Nigerian government to undertake maximum rescue and support operations, and for other countries and the United Nations and other international agencies such as the Red Cross to extend the maximum assistance possible.

GPN 'sings' with the people of the entire world in joy and admiration of the rescue of the 33 trapped miners in Chile. The happiness of the reunions and the joy of the community are the side of our human natures that we seek to promote over our also terrifyingly natural human inclinations to kill and destroy human life.

See a Press Release from the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Click here for A NEW PROPOSAL FOR A WORLDWIDE UNION OF GENOCIDE VICTIM PEOPLES - AND ALL CARING PEOPLE - ON BEHALF OF A RIGHT TO LIFE OF ALL PEOPLE: R 2 L

 
 Editor's Welcome
Welcome to our readers of Issue 4 of GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW

We Need to Act


This is a powerful issue that protests appeasement, indifference and passivity.


Along with a wide range of news and features about many aspects of many genocides and developments in genocide studies and prevention, this issue of
GPN includes powerful reviews and summaries of the developments in IRAN, SUDAN-DARFUR and NORTH KOREA.

We believe that significant real action is called for in respect of IRAN's threats to develop nuclear weapons – see the several years of ridiculously self-righteous denials by people who may mean well in their quest for a peaceful world but who, like in pre
World War II days, have played right into the hands of calculating totalitarians who are arming to KILL.

We believe that significant real interventions are called for in respect of SUDAN's evident and ongoing, let alone imminent intensification of genocide – how many more campaigns raising money and writing petitions can we tolerate while the killing goes on without real actions to stop it?


We believe that we need a significantly real policy towards NORTH KOREA that continues its nuclear testing and supplies powerful weaponry to Iran and others, even as it is ruled by a despotic family of dictators who can hardly be counted on to act rationally and humanistically-- and God only knows what and when they will do next.


Granted the needs and challenges are awesome and quite obviously beyond the conventional resources of a USA struggling with aspects of decline, or of our current international system and its several corrupt anti-democratic players. But without a consortium of life-respecting countries sounding an inspired call to protect human life everywhere on the planet, and without a resolution to address the most pressing problems, the dwindling free world is riding for a terrifying apocalyptic fall.


Of all the current problems, we believe the immediate dangers of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of totalitarian regimes and transnational terrorist groups is the most imminent and pressing, and will set the note for the larger survival of our civilization or not. It is getting that bad that the stakes are now reaching towards the global and the survival of our species.


Our message to our scholarly and professional field of genocide studies and prevention is also evident in this issue. We believe the time has come for our discipline to make calculated efforts to translate emerging understanding of the genocidal process into tools for action and projects that aim to impact in a real way on our dangerous world. We want to work toward reducing deaths and injury from intentional violence, the most extreme example of which is genocide. Waxing forth in lecture and seminar rooms while the forces of Talaats/Hitlers/Stalins/Maos/Pol Pots/Miloseviches/Ahmadinejads/Bashirs/and more command, and strut and murder doesn't make any kind of sense, not even allowable academic nonsense. The issues are too serious and real.


R 2 L – Right to Life, A Proposal for a Worldwide Organization of Genocide Victim Peoples


Be sure also to see in this issue a proposal for a WORLDWIDE UNION OF GENOCIDE VICTIM PEOPLES – AND ALL CARING PEOPLE – ON BEHALF OF A RIGHT TO LIFE OF ALL PEOPLE – R 2 L.

What do YOU think? Are the various victim peoples YOU know ready to join in recognizing and caring the for histories of
other peoples who have suffered genocide, and to work with them together in an umbrella organization that contributes to the prevention of genocides in our time?


GPN is Winning Accolades and Distribution

On a more mundane everyday level of good living, we also admit to our pleasures in the journalism of
GPN. It is fun to bring you a wide range of information and analysis on the subject of protecting human life from genocide and genocidal terrorism and massacres. We are grateful and excited at the wonderful feedback we are receiving from many readers all around the world. An amazing number of GPN articles in our first three issues have earned visible placements on Google Searches, and GPN itself as Genocide Prevention Now has moved quickly to a prominent position. Your editors are continuing to explore and learn the range of tools available in this new journalistic medium of a "webmag" (web magazine), at once so familiar, yet in so many new ways also unfamiliar to our tried and true editorial habits of many years.

GPN is Reprint Friendly


Behind the scenes, we do a great deal to make it possible for you to reprint easily individual articles and stories in
GPN for classroom and group instruction. Please avail yourselves of this resource freely. While you do not have to write us for permission, we will be grateful if you would email us ever so briefly of your use of a GPN article for instructional purposes. E-mail: gpn.general@genocidepreventionnow.org

Feedback or Letters to the Editor


We intend to introduce a Feedback or Letters to the Editor mechanism. Watch for it.


We wish you good reading and renewed inspiration to act on behalf of human life and against genocide.


Best wishes from all of us on the
GPN Staff,
Israel
Israel W Charny
 
 GPN Issue 4, Fall 2010
If you ever doubt Ahmadinejad and his colleagues really mean to kill.
G P N   O R I G I N A L

Yael Stein, Tamar Pileggi, Alex Barnea Burnley
More "Mein Kampf": A Chronology of Statements of Incitement and Hate Language by Ahmadinejad and other Iranian Leaders
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Al-Bashir Indicted for Genocide by ICC
International Court Adds Genocide Charges against President Al-Bashir
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A public health model generates new tools for preventing genocide.
G P N   O R I G I N A L
Elihu D Richter, with Yael Stein, Alex Barnea Burnley, and Marc Sherman
Can We Prevent Genocide by Preventing Incitement? Part 2
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A remarkable university-level instruction on the genocides of many peoples, with a pioneering set of instructional books in Hebrew.
G P N   O R I G I N A L
Yair Auron
Holocaust and Genocide Education in Israel
Issue 4, Fall 2010

When will the Jewish state act more Jewishly and recognize another people's genocide?
G P N   S T O R Y
Israel Awaits Knesset Consideration of Armenian Genocide
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A comprehensive and excellent book on denials of the Holocaust, although it bypasses viewing the Holocaust among the genocides of many peoples
Reviewer: Israel W. Charny

G P N   O R I G I N A L
Review of a book by Manfred Gerstenfeld
The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Harut Sassounian warmly summarizes a talk to the British Parliament about Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide as well as the State of Israel's denials, but leaves out a stinging indictment of jihad as a call to destruction - past, present, and future
Harut Sassounian's Column
Reprinted with Permission
Harut Sassounian
Dr. Israel Charny Condemns Denial of Armenian Genocide in British Parliament
Issue 4, Fall 2010

An address at the British Parliament about the past Armenian Genocide and the current threat of jihad.
G P N   O R I G I N A L
Israel W. Charny
Confronting Denials of the Armenian Genocide
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Another legal victory for us against the deniers
G P N   S T O R Y
US Massachusetts Court Rejects 'Genocide' Denial
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Mr. Erdogan, please keep up the good work - soon Turkey won't have ambassadors left in the world.
Harut Sassounian's Column
Reprinted with Permission
Advice to Prime Minister Erdogan: Continue Denying the Genocide
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Many different ethnic and national groups are increasingly united under a jihad banner
G P N   S T O R Y
Hamburg Mosque Used by 9/11 Attackers is Closed: Islamic Terrorism is becoming Transnational with a "Connectivity that is Succeeding"
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A monument to democratic pluralism and against Islamic violence or an insult to memory and a capitulation to encroaching Islamic power?
G P N   S T O R Y
Plan to Build Mosque Near 9/11 Site Has Set Off a Bitter Controversy
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Finally, a verdict for Duch. But what is justice for a vicious genocider? And don't count on more indictments of higher-ups in the Cambodian genocide.
G P N   S T O R Y
A Khmer Rouge Sentence is Denounced as Too Lenient while the Cambodian Government Places Obstacles on Trials of More Senior Genocide Policymakers
Issue 4, Fall 2010

The Dangers of Appeasement
G P N   E D I T O R I A L
G P N   O R I G I N A L
Elihu D. Richter
Sakharov to Obama: Notes on the First Anniversary of the Crushed Iranian Protest Movement
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A call for recognition of the genocidal fates of all Ottoman Greeks, and not an exclusive focus on Pontic Greeks.
G P N   O R I G I N A L
Nikolaos Hlamides
Pontic Greeks and the Greek Genocide
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Congo is a too-little known arena of ongoing genocidal killing.
Reprinted with Permission
52 Rabbis Call for Action to End Killing in Congo -- 54 million Dead Since 1988
Issue 4, Fall 2010

The EU says Turkey is responsible for the murder of Hrant Dink.
G P N   S T O R Y
European Court of Human Rights Finds Turkey Guilty in Murder of Journalist Hrant Dink
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Japan's new PM avoids shrine to kamikaze pilots and apologizes.
G P N   S T O R Y
Japanese Prime Minister Apologizes for Japan's War Crimes in WWII
Issue 4, Fall 2010
 
 World Genocide Situation Room (WGSR)
The clock is ticking: The Cotler Report's call to action against Iran's nuclear threats, genocidal incitement, support for genocidal terror, and repression of human rights.
GPN Editorial Note and Introduction to Cotler Report


Irwin Cotler
Irwin Cotler's Renewed Call to Action Against Iran's Nuclear Threats: Responsibility to Prevent Petition
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Do you remember that Saddam was executed for using poison gas? Are the Turks continuing?
B R E A K I N G   S T O R Y
Turks Hit PKK with Chemical Weapons
Issue 4, Fall 2010

An integrative review that makes sense of the long-since genocide-in-process in a world that knows and does so little
G P N   O R I G I N A L

With a "GPN Darfur Timeline" and a GPN Interview of a Darfur Survivor
  
Alex Barnea Burnley, Yael Stein, Elihu D. Richter
Darfur and Sudan: A Review and Analysis
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A powerful review essay on a dangerous quite probably genocidal nation-state in our time -- do we recognize the danger sufficiently?
With a Timeline of Resolutions on North Korea
G P N   T I M E L I N E
G P N   O R I G I N A L
 
Yael Stein and Elihu D Richter
Suspected Mass Killings - Call them Democide, Politicide, or maybe Genocide in North Korea
Issue 4, Fall 2010
 
 FINALE: MAD AHMAD

Finale to Issue 4 on Mad Ahmadinejad -- A Dangerous Leader Calling for Genocide
Issue 4, Fall 2010

How much can the human mind distort reality?
G P N   S T O R Y
Ahmadinejad Claims USA Designed 9/11
Issue 4, Fall 2010

The surviving rational world reacts.
G P N   S T O R Y
Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Condemn Ahmadinejad's 9/11 Comments
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Sad to report that life-threatening Ahmadinejad gets a friendly hearing at Yale University.
G P N   S T O R Y
Yale Students Host Ahmadinejad
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Does a government denying the Holocaust also mean anything about its intentions toward Jews in the future?
G P N   S T O R Y
Ahmadinejad July 2010: ‘Holocaust is a Fairy Tale'
Issue 4, Fall 2010

Beliefs in a Messiah can be spiritual, but they can also usher in apocalypse now.
G P N   S T O R Y
Khameini and Ahmadinejad Pursue a Messianic Course, but there is a Rift among Iran's Clerics
Issue 4, Fall 2010

A mental health perspective of the man who says 9/11 was executed by the US and who feels the aura of the Hidden Imam when speaking to the UN; Ahmadinejad is not really a clown of our time - he is a menacing reality .
G P N   O R I G I N A L
MAD AHMAD - A Psychologists' Editorial
Issue 4, Fall 2010
 
 THREAT
THREAT Issue 4
Issue 4, Fall 2010
 

THREAT Stories in this Issue

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  • Egyptian Cleric: Hitler was Right to Do What he Did to the Jews
  • Only Much Harsher Sanctions Can Halt Iran Nuclear Program
  • Iranian Army General Commander Ataollah: "It Will Take Us 11 Days To Wipe Israel Out of Existence"
  • 3 Britons Convicted in Plot to Blow Up Airliners
  • U.K. neo-Nazi gets 10 Years for Planned Chemical Attacks
  • The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism - Quotes from Islam
  • On Al-Jazeera TV, "This Is a War Of Religion, Not Just a War Between Arabs and Israelis"
  • Video of Uganda Bombing and Survivor's Account at Final Match of World Cup in Uganda
  • Iranian Website: Iranian Nuclear Bomb Spells Death to Israel
  • Reactions in Iran to Gaza Flotilla - Ayatollah Khomeini's Plan to Remove the 'Cancerous Tumor' that is Israel
  • Islam Wants to Establish Supremacy of Allah Everywhere
 NEWSPEAK
NEWSPEAK Issue 4
Issue 4, Fall 2010
 

Newspeak Stories in this Issue

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  • The Winning Cartoon in the Iran Holocaust Cartoon Contest
  • Home of Mohammed Cartoonist Attacked
  • Islam Wants Peace with Israel but Won't Meet with Rabbis or Peres: The New Head Sheikh at Al-Azhar University in Cairo Continues Tantawi's Hateful Doubletalk
  • Antisemitism in the New Form of Holocaust Denials: Deligimitization of Israel's Right to Exist
  • Bomb Plotter Receives Life Sentence: 'I didn't mean it when I pledged allegiance to the U.S.'
  • Video of Uganda Bombing and Survivor's Account at Final Match of World Cup in Uganda
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