If you liked Iraq, you will love Sudan

Open letter to Michael Capuano, Representative to Congress, 8th District, MA

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

Dear Representative Capuano:

I have been attending many Darfur-related events and meetings in the Boston area. Because I have found that much of the leadership the Save Darfur movement has associations with the David Project or the American Anti-Slavery Group, which were both founded by Charles Jacobs (http://tinyurl.com/yp78gr), I am concerned about hate-mongering and anti-Arab or anti-Muslim incitement that can only have negative implications for homeland security within the Bay State and for the whole country.

I have put together an article about Darfur activism that includes three news reports of local Darfur meetings and the complete text of a statement that I read in abridged form to the Massachusetts Public Service Committee during a joint hearing to collect testimony with regard to pending Sudan divestment legislation (S1474). You can find the article at http://tinyurl.com/344gxh.

I hypothesize

1. that Darfur activism is a very successful viral marketing campaign, which has been created by a local Boston extremist Israel advocacy group, and
2. that the Save Darfur movement connects to the upper echelons of the Neocons.

The organized Jewish community with guidance from Neocon leaders is making a show of political force as well as trying to control human rights and genocide discourse by means of the Sudan issue.

[Note that the phrase organized Jewish community refers to the network of Jewish communal organizations to which professional Jews belong. Professional Jews are people like Abraham Foxman of the ADL or David Harris of the AJC. I do not mean Jewish doctors or Jewish lawyers, whom I would call Jewish professionals.]

If you do not have the time to read my article, here is the punch-line from the first news report.

Altogether the information provided by the presenters indicates that a clique from the most extremist racist segment of the Boston Jewish community has with the resources of the [Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)] and local [Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRCs)] transformed Darfur activism into a highly effective viral marketing program. The JCPA has developed a program that local JCRCs use in Jewish Community Centers, at media update sessions, at college events, and at interfaith sessions.

Then from the Jewish community the Darfur campaign has spread even further through American intellectual and political culture with the aid of academic falsifiers and media pundits like Samantha Powers,

• who is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government,
• who was the founding director of Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002),
• who has been heavily involved in misinforming the public about Darfur (see http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/research/audiovideo.php) and
• whose Pulitzer Prize winning book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide panders ethnic Ashkenazi Americans by conveniently ignoring both
  • the mass murders, ethnic cleansing and genocide architected or executed by Bolshevik Ashkenazim during the Russian Revolution and the first 25 years of the Soviet Union and also
  • the premeditated genocide of the Palestinian population that Zionist Ashkenazim plotted during the late 19th and first half of the twentieth century, that they began in 1947, and that they continue to execute to this very day.

Just as a biological epidemic initially does its harm locally and then spreads rapidly over larger distances, the Darfur campaign has spread like an influenza outbreak as Jewish bloggers and Jewish community activists spread the propaganda to the media, to academia, throughout the government, to the clergy, to business,[7] throughout society, and finally internationally.

At first, the Save Darfur movement only poisoned human rights discourse within the USA, then it began threatening Sudan with an armed invasion practically guaranteed to recreate the Iraq disaster, lately it has complicated US relations with Arab as well as Muslim states, and now it is beginning to interfere with US-China politics as Darfur activists have begun to target the Chinese Olympics.

Please note that I am not denying the large number of civilian deaths in Darfur.

Such an assertion would be like claiming that Georgians did not die during Sherman's March through Georgia.

I am just arguing

1. that genocide is not taking place and
2. that some very important Neocons and certain elements within the organized Jewish community are trying to incite a Sudan intervention, which can only be a disaster for the Sudanese and for America.

I know a lot about the Sudan. I surveyed the country in the early 1990s for the purpose of implementing and upgrading the then existing telephone network to modern standards, but I could not tell you whether the USA should support Omar al-Bashir (Islamist) or Hasan al-Turabi (more Islamist but more innovative within Islamic traditions).

To the first approximation intervention would be a choice to replace Omar al-Bashir with Hasan al-Turabi or someone from Turabi's political faction (the National Islamic Front; Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية القومية). I am not sure what that would mean. I am not sure anyone can guess.

Unfortunately, once we start calling the civil war in Darfur a genocide, we cut off all rational discussion because the supporters of intervention are good guy humanitarians while intervention opponents are the bad guys, who refuse to fight genocide.

The Save Darfur movement is part of a program to manipulate the US into taking military action in the Sudan and then later against Iran with the justification that Ahmadi-Nejad is inciting genocide and will obtain nuclear weapons unless the USA acts.

For the good of Americans and the peoples of Africa and the Middle East, we have to discuss the interventionist subtext in addition to the crisis for civilians in Darfur. Otherwise, the ultimate disaster will be worse than Iraq. Until we Americans come to a decision by rational and open discussion, we should focus primarily on helping Darfuran civilians through organizations like Islamic Relief Worldwide.

The Darfur Advocacy groups are raising money for political lobbying for intervention. They are not helping Darfuran civilians at all and are probably worsening conditions for all noncombatants in the region.

Sincerely yours,

Joachim Martillo

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