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Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb
Palestinian births:
"Too many
children leads to too many "superfluous young men", who then become
violent radicals"
The Electronic Intifada - 22
February 2010
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A fellow at Harvard
University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin
Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of
Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal
definition of a call for genocide.
Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential Washington Institute for
Near East Policy (WINEP), made the call early this month in a speech at
Israel's Herzliya conference, a video of which is posted on his blog ("Superfluous
young men," 7 February 2010).
Martin Kramer On Palestinian Population Control
In the speech Kramer rejected common views that Islamist
"radicalization" is caused by US policies such as support for Israel, or
propping up despotic dictatorships, and stated that it was inherent in
the demography of Muslim societies such as Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and
the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Too many children, he argued, leads to
too many "superfluous young men" who then become violent radicals.
Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian children born in the Gaza
Strip should be deliberately curbed, and alleged that this would "happen
faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies to Palestinians
with refugee status."
Due to the Israeli blockade, the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza
are now dependent on UN food aid. Neither the UN, nor any other
agencies, provide Palestinians with specifically "pro-natal subsidies."
Kramer appeared to be equating any humanitarian assistance at all with
inducement for Palestinians to reproduce.
He added, "Israel's present sanctions on Gaza have a political aim --
undermine the Hamas regime -- but if they also break Gaza's runaway
population growth, and there is some evidence that they have, that might
begin to crack the culture of martyrdom which demands a constant supply
of superfluous young men." This, he claimed, would be treating the issue
of Islamic radicalization "at its root."
The Weatherhead Center at Harvard describes itself as "the largest
international research center within Harvard University's Faculty of
Arts and Sciences." In addition to his positions at Harvard and WINEP,
Kramer is "president-designate" of Shalem College in Jerusalem, a
far-right Zionist institution that aspires to be the "College of the
Jewish People."
Pro-Israel speakers from the United States often participate in the the
Herzliya conference, an influential annual gathering of Israel's
political and military establishment. This year's conference was also
addressed by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and,
in a first for a Palestinian official, by Salam Fayyad, appointed prime
minister of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority.
Kramer's call to prevent Palestinian births reflects a long-standing
Israeli and Zionist concern about a so-called "demographic threat" to
Israel, as Palestinians are on the verge of outnumbering Israeli Jews
within Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories combined.
Such extreme racist views have been aired at the Herzliya conference in
the past. In 2003, for example, Dr. Yitzhak Ravid, an Israeli government
armaments expert, called on Israel to "implement a stringent policy of
family planning in relation to its Muslim population," a reference to
the 1.5 million Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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