When will the American-Zionist holocaust against
           the Iraqi people come to an end?
                By Khalid Amayreh
 
 So far, over half a million Iraqi children have
 perished as a direct result of the lingering
 sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United States
 (through the United Nations Security
 Council). Needless to say, the sanctions have
 impoverished and ruined Iraq in every
 conceivable sphere. The general Iraqi infrastructure
 has been virtually destroyed, and the
 hospitals, clinics and primary health-care centres
 have all fallen to disrepair.
 
 Huge numbers of other Iraqis have also died since the
 second Gulf war owing to the
occurrence of abnormally high rates of cancer, which
 experts impute to depleted-Uranium
 shells used by U.S. forces against Iraq during the
 Desert Storm campaign. These and other
 lethal kinds of weapons apparently contaminated and
 polluted the Iraqi soil and water, and
 caused a variety of new syndromes which had not been
 known before.
 
 In brief, it can be safely said that the
 American-Zionist administration, through the wanton
 and unbridled use of force, and the adoption of a
 policy based on the arrogance of power,
 hegemony and global insolence, is carrying out a
 massive and systematic extermination of
 the Iraqi people, in total callousness and total
 disregard for humanitarian considerations.
 
 In clear language, this means that the morally corrupt
 Clinton, whose Zionist administration
 is full of hate for everything and anything Arab or
 Islamic, is hell-bent on killing as many
Iraqis as possible, all for the purpose of satiating
 the cannibalistic instincts of Clinton's
 Zionist executive generals and secretaries, in
 particular Madeleine Albright, William Cohen,
 Samuel Burger, Aaron Miller, Martin Indyk and Dennis
 Ross.
 
 They, in reality, are no different than Adolph Hitler
 and his generals, who killed and
 incinerated innumerable people, Jews and non-Jews,
 during the Second World War.
 
Killing is killing, and a mass extermination is a mass
 extermination, irrespective of the
 identity of the perpetrator and irrespective of the
 identity of the victims.
 
 Thanks to the American-Zionist sanctions, Iraq, from
 north to south and from east to west,
 has effectively become a huge concentration camp, very
 much like Aushwitz, and other Nazi
 concentration camps.
 
 The deaths, as manifested in the sheer number of the
 victims, the misery, the wretchedness
 and the macabre suffering, all say one thing: what is
 happening in Iraq is a silent holocaust.
 
 The Iraqis die of hunger, of illness, and of poverty,
 all resulting from the crippling sanctions.
 And, as indicated above, the number of deaths
 increases astronomically, and the mass
 funerals take place on a daily basis.
 
 This happens at a time when the entire world,
 including the Arab and Muslim population, is
 dead silent, as if their hearts have been hardened to
 stones.
 
 The Great Satan, as the late Imam Khumeini rightly
 described the United States, erroneously
 claims that the sanctions are aimed at forcing the
 Iraqi leadership to comply with UN
 Security Council resolutions and (the real goal)
 create the appropriate conditions conducive
 to toppling the regime in Baghdad.
 
 The American Secretary of State unashamedly indicated
 that the achievement of these goals
 justifies the mass extermination of Iraqis.
 
 "If this is the price, I believe it is worth it," so
 said the evil lady who is morally responsible
 for the death of a half million Iraqi children, at
 least as much as anybody else, if not more
 than anybody else.
 
 The American-Zionist administration, the CIA, the
 Mossad, even the mentally retarded,
 realize quite well that the Iraqi people, decimated
 and debilitated by hunger and poverty and
 sinister repression by the regime, are too frail, too
 exhausted, too hungry and too ill to
 overthrow Saddam Hussein, who is surrounded by a
 powerful security apparatus that
 mercilessly liquidates its opponents and critics.
 
 Given this terrifying situation, one has to face the
 following inescapable question, which the
 U.S. government has been trying its best to circumvent
 and evade: If the Iraqi people cannot
 get rid of Saddam (even if they wanted to), then why
 does the U.S., along with obsequious
 Britain, continue to exterminate Iraqis? Why?
 
 It is true that the Iraqi people are the premier
 victim of the despot Saddam Hussein, who
 tormented and humiliated the Iraqis as nobody else had
 ever done before. But, if this is
 true, and it is true, and the truth of it actually
 transcends reality, then why does the world's
 last remaining superpower continue to further punish
the victim by starving it to death?
 
 Why does the U.S. continue to kill, directly,
 indirectly, or vicariously, helpless and hopeless
 Iraqi men, women and children whose only "crime" is
 their being in the wrong country,
 under the wrong leader, at the wrong time? Isn't
 America ultimately responsible for the
 continuation of this massive genocide, which should
 transcend politics and political and
 strategic calculations?
 
 It is inescapable again to call the spade a spade,
 especially when we find it in the hands of
 the Iraqi children's grave-diggers, the American
 administration.
 
 That genocidal administration simply seems bent on
 destroying Iraq, its population, its
 economics, its environment and even its culture, all
 for the sake of appeasing and pleasing
 Israel and its Jewish lobby in Washington, and also,
 perhaps, in order to coerce Iraq into
 joining the peace process and allow the settlement of
 hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
 refugees as part of the American-Israeli plan to
 liquidate the enduring Palestinian refugees'
 cause.
 
 We are not saying that every American is a criminal
 murderer because of the American
 administration's responsibility for the Iraqi
 holocaust. However, there is no escape
 considering every American, and for that matter every
 Briton, and every conscientious
 human being, is morally responsible for the enduring
 genocide.
 
 The American Zionist lobby is particularly responsible
 for the lingering sanctions since it has
 been at the forefront of those pressure groups
 resisting the lifting of the sanctions in order
 to serve its own sadistic and racist political
 expediency, namely to punish Iraq, as a nation,
 for its hostility toward Israel. This ghoulish lobby
 is simply avenging the bombing of Israel by
 the Iraqi scud missiles ten years ago by exterminating
 Iraqi children.