Palestinians and the Rape of Nanking

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VK: In June 2007, you wrote an article entitled "Slouching Towards a Palestinian Holocaust." In the article, you posed the following question: "Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with [the] criminalized [word edited] record of collective atrocity?" You answered by saying:

"I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty. The suggestion that this pattern of conduct is a holocaust-in-the-making represents a rather desperate appeal to the governments of the world and to international public opinion to act urgently to prevent these current genocidal tendencies from culminating in a collective tragedy."

Although Richard Falk's arguments are common in the literature, I find them hyperbolic. If the international media had shown what is happening in Darfur, I would have presented that footage to define Falk's 'genocidal tendencies' more clearly.

Instead, I present 'The Rape of Nanking' going back to 1937 for a realistic illustration.

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/rape_of_nanking.php

Mr. Falk should view this before he alludes to "current genocidal tendencies."

"Rapeof Nanking begins with a historical overview of ancient China and the sun-cult of Shinto, Bushido, and Japanese Emporer Hirohito's dream to rule the world. There follows the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, the Rape of Nanking, and finally, the rape of Manilla, Unit 731 and the Baatan Death March.

Japanese soldiers tear out the eyes of children, gang-rape women then set them on fire, bury people alive or use them for bayonet practice...beheading women, children, old men....and torturing people for fun...and then laughing hysterically as victims, who have been set on fire, run screaming through the night..." -amazon.com