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| Welcome to Summer 2011 Issue 7 of GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW
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GPN believes that perhaps the most serious
threat of genocide/mass deaths of civilians facing the world lies in
Iran's relentless, duplicitous path to nuclear weapons. The following
stories, some recent, and others spread over the last 2-3 years,
give a clear picture of a relentless move towards nuclear weapons.
Be reminded that GPN is very carefully designed to make it possible for you to print out individual articles easily for more relaxed reading including old-fashioned reading in the bedroom and for use in group discussion and instructional settings in schools and colleges and most importantly, in the boardrooms, public meetings, and corridors of power where decisions about life and death are being made.
GPN readers were invited to express opinions and offer viewpoints about the subject matter of Special Issue 5, and now we are extending the invitation to readers of this issue as well. We will select a sampling of comments for publication in GPN Issue 7 in the Spring of 2011. Please e-mail your Letter to the Editor to gpn.general@genocidepreventionnow.org
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It is indispensable to effectively address the problem of systematic incitement to hatred... Vicious, systematic, and state-organized hate propaganda should be criminalized under international law... Systematic incitement to hatred is a form of persecution, an approach recently upheld by the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Such an approach most adequately reflects the nature of hate speech and the motivations underlying its criminalization, while also respecting the important right to freedom of speech.
-- Timmermann, Wibke [National University of Ireland, Galway] (2008). Counteracting hate speech as a way of preventing genocidal violence. Genocide Studies and Prevention, (2),1, p. 353.
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- Revolutionary Guard Praises Nuclear Testing [June 2011]
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Iran Triples Nuclear Production [June 2011]
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Iran Working on a New Nuclear Plan [April 2010]
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Secret Report: Iran Test Advanced Nuclear Warhead Design [November 2009]
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International Atomic Energy Agency: "Possible Military Dimensions" and Iran's
Double Talk of Peace [November 2010]
- Irwin Cotler: Human Rights in Iran: Nuclear Threat, Incitement to Genocide, State-
Sanctioned Terrorism and Violations of Rights of Iranian Citizens [February 2011]
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Iran's Neighbors are Scared and Want Action
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Distress Over Iran Around the World, and Rip-Roaring Discussions whether to
Attack or Not, and Who Should Do It
- Nuclear Reactors Globally Suffer Accidents at Rate 8 Times the U.S. Goal
- Visiting Chernobyl
- Roger Cohen's Obfuscation and Holier-Than-Thou, We're Bad and They Would Never Do It
- IAEA's El Baradei Minimized Iran's Nuclear Danger for Years
| It's Happening Now: Three Boiling Events of Genocidal Massacre: Sudan & Syria
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Nations have a right to memory and to access truth. Those who deny genocide contribute to the development of genocide. A toxic inevitability gives birth to genocide.
How stringently do we condemn genocide? To what extent do we want to be informed about genocide? The sons and heirs of those who suffered genocide need to be joined by the heirs of those who committed the genocide in remembering. The road to reconciliation is not denial but of remembrance.
--Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia, December 14, 2010
Excerpts from Closing Remarks to the Conference: "The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, Condemnation and Elimination of Consequences," Yerevan, Armenia
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| Collectif VAN Presents Armenian Mini-Posters
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Two more mini-posters from a series of 8 (see the article to click to previous posters as well). GPN will
continue to publish the series in future issues. See here also About Collectif VAN Paris by Séta Papazian about the excellent
organization that created the posters.
Reprinted with the Permission of Collectif Van
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Mini-Posters by Collectif VAN: Honoring Armenian, Jewish, Tutsi and Darfur Victims
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| COMMEMORATION OF 96th ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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A work in progress by GPN staffers that is presented at this stage to readers as a useful tool for further study
G P N T I M E L I N E |
| Tamar Berman, Tamar Pileggi, Alex Barnea |
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Armenia Timeline
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| Amazing footage of the Armenian Genocide is recovered and is now available as a video |
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Ravished Armenia
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| Criticism of Israel for Not Recognizing the Armenian Genocide
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An Israeli and Zionist leader discovers the Armenians in his city and the Armenian Genocide - "The time has come..."
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| David Breakstone |
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Keep Dreaming: This Week in Armenia
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"Israel is, was and remains committed to be the most anti-racist country in the world."
-- President Shimon Peres, speaking at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Memorial Day, May 2, 2011
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| Press Un-Freedom: Jailing Journalists after They Write or even Before
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- Al-Qaeda and Suicide Terrorism: Vision and Reality
- Does Al Qaeda Have a Nuclear Weapon?
- Israel is Faced with Threats of Destruction
- It Really Happened! Recent Horrible Events
- Kars Decides to Demolish Turkish-Armenian Friendship Monument
- Turkey Rushed to Erase a Runaway Acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide by a Vice-President of Iran
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Kissinger in 1973: Possible Soviet Gassing of Jews is not an American Concern
"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, speaking to President Richard Nixon, March 1, 1973 -- as heard on White House tapes released in December 2010 that were secretly recorded through a system Nixon had ordered installed
Source: Beckerman, Gal (December 19, 2010). Why Kissinger said American Jews acted 'traitoriously': Shocking remarks about Soviet Jews on Oval Office tapes reveal a fraught relationship with his own. The Forward. A special Forward Edition for Haaretz readers in Israel, page 1 continued B4.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has apologized for saying in 1973 that if the Soviet Union were to send Jews to the gas chambers, this would not be an American concern…."For someone who lost in the Holocaust many members of my immediate family and a large proportion of those with whom I grew up, it is hurtful to see an out-of-context remark being taken so contrary to its intentions and to my convictions…Reference to gas chambers have no place in political discourse, and I am sorry I made that remark 37 years ago."
Source: Shamir, Shlomo (December 26, 2010). Kissinger sorry for comments about gassing Soviet Jews. Haaretz English Edition.
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GPN is very pleased to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Gorgias Press to publish hard cover printed volumes of GPN Issues. The first volume heading for publication now will include the first four issues of GPN, Winter 2010, Spring 2010, Summer 2010 and Fall 2010. This hardcover volume is intended for permanent library collections. For those readers who, like the editor, are above a certain age, the publication of traditional printed materials represents a bit of revenge and overcoming of contemporary digital torture - but then we at GPN clearly are engaged in producing an instrument of digital torture in our basic Web Magazine issues. I, for one, confess to some kind of relief and downright pleasure at having the published volumes supplement our internet production. Naturally, we will be providing information about acquiring the printed volumes by Gorgias Press at a later date.
GPN is now looking forward to a promised final, final deadline for the completion of our Web site. We have been publishing GPN on the Web site since the beginning of 2011 (beginning with Issue 5), but we still have not had the search engine working for all the materials of the HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW. It is this search engine that we are looking forward to have installed now. We hope that it will provide students and scholars with easy access to the wealth of information about genocide scholarship and activities throughout the world.
In the above connection, GPN is proud to call to readers' attention the continuing updating and expansion of what we believe is the only Directory in the world to academic programs and courses in Holocaust and genocide studies. When I think back so many years ago to the period of my selecting a graduate school and how gratefully dependent I was on a directory of programs provided by the American Psychological Association in my field, I am very happy that GPN is providing such information to new generations of students who are seeking to enter the new field of genocide studies.
We are also pleased to inform our readers that we expect soon to provide a more accessible interactive Feedback mechanism where readers can submit their comments and reactions to us, first of all, for our knowledge, but then also periodically for selection of some comments for publication. Please be reminded that readers are already welcomed to write their reactions and comments as emails to gpn.general@genocidepreventionnow.org, and in the present issue you will find two significant Letters to the Editor about Zimbabwe and Syria.
Finally a few words about the present Issue 7. We continue with our Iran Nuclear Watch. It is not by chance that this is the opening section of GPN for as we note we believe this is the most critical danger and early warning sign of possible coming genocide in the world. Also as always, the issue is rich with information and contributions from around the world, including about two current area of ongoing genocidal massacres in Sudan and Syria. Further, as always there is a special emphasis on recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Normally, this section "Commemoration of the 96th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide" would have been desired in time for the actual April 2011 event, but the material and the ongoing memory of the genocide are not bound by dates. This issue includes an additional section of "Criticism of Israel for Not Recognizing the Armenian Genocide," even as we all await a scheduled debate in the Knesset Education Committee of a resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide that was unanimously approved by the Knesset as a whole.
As reported in the issue, I have just returned from the Special Honor of receiving a Presidential Prize from the President of Armenia for my contributions to recognizing the Armenian Genocide and my many years of researchers of denials of all genocides. In Armenia, I was taken to light a memorial candle at a new sculpture in the heart of the city that is, unusually, simultaneously dedicated to the Armenian Genocide - text in Armenian on the right and to the Holocaust - text in Hebrew on the left, with an eternal flame between the two of them. I love the joining of commemorations of different peoples.
Best, Israel
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GPN now parts from Professor Elihu Richter, M.D. as well as his team of assistants, Yael Stein, M.D., Alex Barnea Burnley, M.A., and Tamar Pileggi, M.A. We appreciate their past work in developing the World Genocide Situation Room in Issues 1-7 of GPN Genocide Prevention Now.
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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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This project was made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The contents of this website are the responsibility of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem.
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