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Muslim friends and I do agree with their tough on crime stance, I post this
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PAGE TITLE: FrontPage Magazine
ARTICLE TITLE: Time for a Nuremberg Trial for Hamas
and the Pipers of Death
DATE: Thursday 6 December
2012
AUTHOR: Giulio Meotti
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Giulio
Meotti is an Italian journalist and author. He is the author of “A New Shoah”,
an acclaimed book about the Israeli victims of terrorism http://giuliomeotti.com/
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Courtroom of the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
In front of the four allied flags, sit the judges, court reporters and clerks,
during the first Nuremberg trial. |
Back
in the 1970s, law expert Yoram Dinstein argued that according to UN
definitions, terrorism and incitement against Israelis constituted genocide.
That’s why Israel, with the help of a few Western democracies, should set up a
Nuremberg-type initiative for Palestinian terror leaders, who must be charged
for inciting and committing genocide. In the name of the peremptory principle nullum crimen sine poena, ”No
crime without a punishment,” we should prosecute Palestinian terrorists,
whether as individuals or entities. They are hostes
humani generis, “common enemies of humankind.”
The
initiative would be a powerful rebuke of the failed International Criminal
Court in the Hague, which should have prosecuted these evil leaders and
promoters of genocide. The Islamic regimes of the world succeeded in changing
the Court’s statute to eliminate terrorism as an offense and, at the same time,
to define the Jewish inhabitants of Judea and Samaria as “war criminals.”
If
Israel has no right to defend itself from genocidal attacks and the Jews have
no right to live in their historic land, then Israel has no right to exist.
The
Palestinian Authority tried to submit criminal cases against individual Israeli
soldiers and leaders, but the prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Palestine was
not yet a state, and only states could file cases. With the UN General Assembly
having upgraded the Palestinians’ status to that of a non-member state, the PA
will try to re-file.
The
Arab clerics, who describe the Jews as sub-humans with expressions like “pig,”
“cancer,” “filth,” “microbes” and “vermin,” should be put on trial for
fomenting lethal anti-Jewishness reminiscent of the 1930s. An example of this
religious incitement is the fatwa issued by the Muslim Brotherhood’s guru,
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, permitting the killing of Jewish fetuses, on the logic that
when Jews grow up they might join the Israeli army. Unfortunately, Europe is
freeing these clerics, like Abu Qatada, who was recently released by the UK.
The
suicide vest costs only $150 for Palestinian terror groups. But it needs
“software” to operate. This is the role of the clerics who put in motion the
robots of death. It’s like the piper and the rats in the famous Hamelin fairy
tale.
The
same with the Arab media, which distribute hate material such as the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion or maps without Israel. Western jurisprudence would find
these media outlets guilty, like the Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher, who
published the anti-Semitic Der
Stuermer and was found guilty by the International Military
Tribunal at Nuremberg. Another example is the trial in which the Rwandan
journalists were charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting
fellow Hutus to commit genocide against the Tutsis. At the very least, Europe
must block the access to these malignant websites and include the journalists
on a black list.
The
legal basis for the campaign against this hatred is the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, ratified on January 12,
1951.
International
tribunals have ruled that hate speech targeting a population based on
discriminatory grounds constitutes crimes against humanity per Article 7
of the Rome Statute.
In
2004, three Arab intellectuals, Jawad Hashim, Shakir al-Nabulsi and Lakhdar
Lafif, sent a request to the UN Security Council, urging the establishment of
an international tribunal for the prosecution of Islamist incitement against
Jews, Muslim “apostates” and Christians. Thanks to satellite channels, Hamas’
Al-Aqsa TV can beam its incitement and hatred into European living rooms,
radicalizing Muslim immigrants. Israel must ask Europe to turn off this terror
offspring, which every evening repeats the same monstrous message: “The Jewish
infidels are less than human, killing them is a meritorious act.” Words lead to
mass murder.
Israel
and its Western allies must launch a campaign to charge NGO leaders who commit
incitement, enlisting the help of attorneys, journalists and writers to testify
on the endless litanies of paranoia and genocidal perversion. Such people risk
their careers and lives daily by denouncing the blood libels, and Israel should
support them.
Hamas
and other incitement leaders should be placed on a “watch list” by Western
countries preventing their entrance as “inadmissible persons” (Qaradawi is
already banned in the UK and US).
Brave
groups, such as UN Watch, can support the battle in global forums. In 2009, a
similar campaign prevented Farouk Hosni, the Egyptian minister who said that he
“would burn Israeli books himself if found in Egyptian libraries,” from
becoming UNESCO’s head.
Moreover,
human rights groups should be flooded with the untold Israeli statistics: the
17,000 people wounded in terror attacks; the 2,000 civilians killed; the 15,000
rockets fired on southern Israeli cities; the fact that some 40% of wounded
Israelis will remain with permanent disabilities.
There
are wounded Israeli heroes who just want to tell their story. I can provide a
list of these maimed fighters who should be invited to speak in the courts
because they are the survivors of current-day genocide. In European faculties,
there are still brave academicians who can denounce Hamas-supporting speakers
among them. We must ask Europe to expel them.
This
is an historic battle that Israel can win with the support of Westerners who
still care about the fate of their civilization. To the Spanish fascists who
were saying, “Viva la muerte!” the Republicans replied: “No pasarán.” We must
offer the same response to contemporary death cultists.
No
pasarán. They shall not pass.
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