Obama’s Cairo Speech – Lies, Spin And Holocaust Denial By Gideon Polya

Obama’s speech in Cairo was full of nice politically correct (PC) expressions of love for Islam and Muslims but dishonestly evaded the central issue of ongoing US Alliance occupation and devastation of Muslim countries and abusive mass imprisonment of the conquered populations of these Occupied Territories including Occupied Somalia (not mentioned), Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria (not mentioned), Occupied Lebanon (not mentioned), Occupied Iraq, Occupied Afghanistan and US robot-bombed NE Provinces of Pakistan.

In 1945 the Germans adopted a post-war protocol that can be summarized by the acronym CAAAA (C4A) and involving Cessation of the killing; Acknowledgment of the crimes; Apology for the crimes; Amends for the crimes; and Assertion “never again to anyone”.

Unfortunately the only Acknowledgement of any US crime that Obama actually admitted to in his speech was that about US involvement in the overthrow of the democratic government of Iran in 1953.

There is no Cessation of the killing in the American Empire from Occupied Somalia to robot-bombed Pakistan; there is no Acknowledgment of the horrendous human cost of the Bush (now Obama) wars against Muslims (9-11 million excess deaths associated with the Bush wars, 1990-2009); there is no Apology (the Iraqi Genocide is described ambivalently and offensively as a “war of choice”); there are no Amends (indeed Obama confesses to an enormous continuing war crime by indicating “aid” to Occupied Afghanistan of $2.8 billion that falls far short of the $180 billion annually demanded by the Geneva Convention, as detailed and explained below); and, of course, no Assertion of “never again to anyone” – indeed the butchery is unabated from US surrogate-invaded Occupied Somalia to the US robot-bombing and US-backed war in NW Pakistan that has generated 2.5 million new refugees in just 5 months of the Obama presidency (see: http://blog.taragana.com/n/donors-pledge-244-mn-for-swat-refugees-64956/ ) .

As for the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (2.3 million post-invasion excess deaths, 0.6 million post-invasionunder-5 infant deaths, 6 million refugees) all that Obama acknowledged was that “Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world … events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible“ i.e. it’s just a learning curve for America and water under the bridge because some nice Americans didn’t think we should have done it and perhaps next time America may talk first before killing millions of people.

Before proceeding further with detailed analysis of Obama’s speech, it is useful to simply present the horrendous statistics detailing the human cost of the genocidal US-backed Apartheid Israeli occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the genocidal US Alliance occupations of Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan.

As of April 2009, in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories:

1. post-invasion non-violent excess deaths total 0.3 million, 1.0 million and 3.2 million, respectively;

2. post-invasion violent deaths total about 10,000, 1.3 million and 2-4 million, respectively;

3. total post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths total 0.3 million, 2.3 million and 3-7 million, respectively;

4. post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively; and

5. refugees total 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively.

This constitutes a Palestinian Holocaust, an Iraqi Holocaust and an Afghan Holocaust; a Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention; and egregious war crimes due in part to Occupier war criminal non-supply of life-sustaining food and medical requisites demanded unequivocally by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Thus the Gaza Concentration Camp has been under US-backed Israeli blockade for 2 years and according to WHO the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” permitted by the Occupiers in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan is US$124 and US$29, respectively, as compared to US$6,714 for the US (see “Pro-Zionist Western holocaust denial”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29844/26/ ).

Annual excess deaths can be estimated from UN data for the major sectors of the American Empire: Occupied Afghanistan (483,000), Occupied Haiti (30,0000), Occupied Iraq (59,000), the Occupied Palestinian Territory (6,000), and Occupied Somalia (77,000), for a total of 655,000 non-violent avoidable deaths per year and 1,795 each day. Obama has only been in office since 20 January 2009 but it can be been estimated that in his first 4 months alone excess deaths in these Occupied Territories totalled about 220,000 and avoidable under-5 infant deaths totalled about 140,000 (see “Hey, hey USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18750 ). Obama’s War in Pakistan has created 2.5 million refugees this year
(see: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=104967631 ).

Obama is doing in Pakistan what the British did in the Kenyan Holocaust in the 1950s and what Obama scrupulously ignores in a process of cowardly holocaust denial (1 million imprisoned in enclosed villages; 0.1 million killed in custody or otherwise; 1.1 million excess deaths) (for details see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950. Chapter 7, 2007:
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2008/08/
body-count-global-avoidable-mortality.html and http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).

Obama divided his speech into 7 sections and in order to systematically consider his lies, slies (spin-based untruths) and holocaust ignoring it is convenient to follow this division.

1. Violent extremism.

Obama says: “The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms” – however, you can’t get more violent extremism than the US alliance killing about 1,800 people every day (see Gideon Polya, “Hey, hey USA how many kids did you kill today? Answer 1,000”, Bellaciao, 2009: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18750 ).

Obama reiterates the Bush Allegation that Muslims did 9/11. However the discovery of unexploded nanothermite high explosive in all samples of World Trade Center dust analysed points the finger for responsibility squarely at the US and its “dirty tricks” Israeli terrorist helpmates (see “Is US responsible for 9-11? Scientists find nanothermite in WTC dust”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29921/42/ ).

Even if you accept the Bush-Obama version of 9/11 (men in caves killing 3,000 Americans) does that justify the US killing 1,800 people per day (1,200 infants per day forever? What happened to Obama’s Cairo motherhood statement of “the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible“ ? And why mass murder Afghans when the official Bush-Obama version of 9-11 states that no (0) Afghans were actually directly involved in the events of 9-11?

The 2.3 million under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants who have died since the US invasion in 2001 (90% avoidably and due to US Alliance war crimes) certainly had nothing to do with 9-11 – and neither did their millions of bereaved mothers, fathers and siblings.

The minimum estimate of post-invasion Occupied Afghan excess deaths is 3 million and accordingly the reprisals death ratio justified by Obama is 3,000,000 Afghans/3,000 9-11 victims = 1,000, about 100 times higher than the “enemy civilians”/”dead Germans” reprisals death ratio of merely 10 ordered by Nazi leader Adolph Hitler in 1944 and executed precisely in the 1944 Rome Ardeatine Caves Massacre. However if we take the upper estimate of 7 million non-violent and violent post-invasion excess deaths then the Obama “death ratio” becomes 7 million/3,000 = 2,333.

As discussed above, Obama made no apology for the Iraq War (“ a war of choice”), made no Acknowledgement of the 2.3 million post-invasion excess deaths and calmly told the Muslim World that he will keep the killing going for another 3 years or so.

Obama actually makes a confession of war criminality in his speech, alluding to “aid” of $7.5 billion for Pakistan and $2.8 billion for Occupied Afghanistan – yet Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War demand that the Occupier does everything “to the fullest extent of the means available it” to keep its Conquered Subjects alive and that means for 27 million Occupied Afghans at least the same annual per capita medical expenditure as for metropolitan USA i.e. $6,714 per person per year x 27 million Afghans = $180 billion every year rather than the paltry $2.8 billion offered.

Obama is currently the World’s #1 violent extremist, the World’s #1 killer of children – and the World’s #1 holocaust denier because he absolutely ignores the horrendous human cost of US invasion, occupation and devastation of the Muslim World.

2. Apartheid Israel and Palestine.

Obama makes no criticism of Apartheid Israel and its violent, illegal, war criminal , abusive 41 year imprisonment of the Occupied Palestinians (now 4 million prisoners) but adopts the standard dishonest pro-Zionist line of “two sides to the argument” – ignoring the inequality of the 1.5 million Palestinians incarcerated in the Gaza Concentration Camp, 2.5 million Occupied Palestinians incarcerated in the West Bank Bantustans, the 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis subject to Nazi-style, race-based Apartheid laws and over 7 million Palestinian refugees (over 4 million registered with the UN).

Obama states that “the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied” – but this violates Orthodox Jewish theology (which says that it is heresy and blasphemy to advocate return to Zion before the Messiah comes) and to any decent , anti-racist this should not involve ethnic cleansing of the indigenous inhabitants.

Thus outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond in his book “Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) unequivocally enunciates the “moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people.”

Obama also states that “Palestinian people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a homeland”. Yet the Indigenous Palestinians are no more “pursuing a homeland” than Indigenous French of France are “pursuing a homeland”. The fact of the matter is that 100% of their continuously Palestinian inhabited homeland for over 3,000 years has been in the hands of genocidal, racist Zionist colonizers for 61 years and about 78% has been in the hands of Apartheid Israel for 61 years – whereas in 1880 Jews represented a mere 5% of the population of Palestine and even now after 6 decades of Palestinian Genocide represent only about 50% of the population of the Holy Land.

While making no criticism of the egregiously violent and murderous racist Zionists (RZs), Obama was trenchant in his criticism of Palestinian “violence” – the world’s #1 current state terrorist and mass murderer Obama was telling the Palestinians to suffer peacefully: “Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America’s founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. It’s a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.”

Notwithstanding the egregious dishonesty of war criminal Obama, as a person committed to Peace and Non-violence I actually agree with this call of Obama for non-violence (this from the safety of my armchair in distant Australia while recognizing the horrible reality of continuing US and Israeli mass murder of Muslims and Israel’s murderous attempts to kill or imprison all members of the Hamas Government that was overwhelmingly democratically elected under Israeli guns in 2006).

Some more key statistics are required at this point to counter Obama’s egregious lying by omission and commission about Palestinian “violence”.

In December 2008-January 2009 the Israelis murdered about 1,400 Palestinians in what the Catholic Church describes as Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp in response to zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets in the previous year. The ostensible excuse for Apartheid Israel’s latest Gaza Massacre was “Gaza rocket terror”. However “terror” is directly proportional to “proportion of people killed” and the actual number of Israelis killed by Gaza rockets and mortars since the start of the Second Intifada 8.25 years ago was twenty eight (28), this corresponding to a 21st century “annual homicide rate” in units of “persons killed per million of population per year” of 0.5 (Israelis killed by Gaza missiles) – as compared to 0.5 (rapist husbands murdered by raped wives), 1.0 (violent husbands murdered by battered wives), 15 (Israelis by Israelis), 56 (Americans), 100 (Americans by guns), 164 (Palestinians killed violently by Israelis), 200 (African-Americans), 473 (citizens of Detroit, Michigan, USA) and 1,429 per million per year (annual Palestinian non-violent deaths through war criminal, Geneva Convention-violating Israeli-imposed deprivation) (updated statistics from “Palestinian-Israeli death ratios. Nazi-style Israeli Gaza war crimes”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/27795/42/ ).

Yet Obama makes no mention of the ongoing Israeli mass murder of Indigenous Palestinians (Apartheid Israel passively murders about 3,600 under-5 year old Occupied Palestinian infants each year by deliberately and war criminally withholding life-sustaining food and medical requisites demanded unequivocally by the Geneva Convention) (for the latest data see UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ).

3. Nuclear weapons

In his Cairo Speech Obama made no mention of Apartheid Israeli nuclear weapons (believed to number about 200) but reiterates the “terrorism” canard against Iran , a country under attack from US-enabled heroin smugglers from Occupied Afghanistan and US-backed Baluchi terrorists from Baluchistan in SW Pakistan. And of course, if Iran did have nuclear weapons would they use then to commit suicide by attacking the US or Apartheid Israel? Of course not.

Obama stated “The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran” – yet Iran has repeatedly stated that it does not want nuclear weapons; US intelligence confirms that they gave up any such intentions 6 years ago; Iran has repeatedly voted for a nuclear-free Middle East (this being repeatedly opposed by nuclear terrorist states of Apartheid Israel and the US); Iran has not attacked any other country for centuries whereas the US has attacked, threatened or subverted almost every country on the planet and Apartheid Israel has attacked numerous countries (Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Uganda and even the US per the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty) as well as playing a “dirty tricks” US surrogate role in Central America, South America, Africa and the South Pacific).

Obama uses the following spin and motherhood device in avoiding mention of Israeli nuclear weapons [my additions in square brackets] : “I understand those who protest that some countries [e.g. Israel] have weapons that others do not [e.g. Iran, Palestine]. No single nation [e.g. the US] should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations [except America?] hold nuclear weapons.”

4. Democracy

In this part if his Cairo Speech Obama moved from egregious lying by omission to lying by commission. Thus Obama stated “Hamas does have support among some Palestinians” – denying the reality that in 2006 Hamas won an overwhelming victory by winning 76 seats out of 132 in the Occupied Palestinian