Australia will shortly remember its circa 100,000 war dead in observing Anzac Day on 25 April. On that date in 1915 heroic Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers joined British, French and colonial forces in an ultimately unsuccessful land invasion of Turkiye at the Gallipoli Peninsular in the strategically vital Dardanelles Strait linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Oil was discovered in Iran in 1908, Britain needed oil for its navy and it accordingly invaded the Ottoman Empire in Iraq in 1914.
The century-long Palestinian Genocide began with war-related famine in Palestine that killed about 100,000 Palestinians. On 31 October 1917 ANZAC forces defeated the Ottoman Turkish forces at Beersheba with this leading to British conquest of the ancient and culturally super-important land of Palestine. 2 days later, on 2 November 1917 the British granted Palestine (Semitic, Arab, 90% Muslim and 10% Christian) to non-Semitic Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews as a “Jewish homeland” in a Letter (the Balfour Declaration) sent to British Zionist, genocidal racist and evil warmonger Lord Rothschild (it was actually an unsuccessful plan to get Zionist Russian Communists to try to keep Russia in WW1).
After WW2 America joined Britain in the creation of a Western-backed, genocidally racist, settler-colonialist Apartheid Israel as an Anglo-American fortress in the middle of the Arab and Muslim world. In the 21st century alone Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, and imposed deprivation, 27 million, have totalled 32 million in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the Zionist-perverted US Government’s 9/11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 innocent Americans. The “official lying Bush version of 9/11” violates science and reason (for a plethora of expert opinion Google “Experts: US did 9/11”).
Genocidally racist Apartheid Israel was variously involved in the deadly consequences of 9/11 described by the US as a War on Terror but more accurately described as a US War on Muslims. Indeed it is highly implausible to suggest that Apartheid Israel as a key beneficiary was not involved in 9/11 and the horrific and continuing post-9/11 US War on Muslims that has devastated the Arab and Muslim worlds from Africa to Asia.
General Wesley Clark (former US Commander of NATO) revealed seeing a memo about a US plan to “take out” 7 Muslim countries “with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somali and Sudan and, finishing off, Iran”. All have been devastated with the exception of Iran that so far has mainly suffered from deadly sanctions but is acutely and existentially threatened by the nuclear weapons of Apartheid Israel and Zionist-perverted Trump America (see Gideon Polya, “US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”).
Indeed famed anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Jeffrey Sachs (96 Nobel Laureate Columbia University) has outlined in an address to the EU Parliament how the Iraq War was directly inspired by and in the interests of genocidally racist Apartheid Israel: “That [Iraq] war, by the way, was directly concocted by Netanyahu and his colleagues in the US Pentagon. I’m not saying that it was a link or mutuality. I’m saying it was a direct war. That was a war carried out for Israel. It was a war that Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith coordinated with Netanyahu”. From 1990 onwards Iraqi Holocaust deaths from US-imposed violence and deprivation have totalled about 5.0-5.5 million, similar to the deaths in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million).
From data published in the leading medical journal The Lancet, by 25 April 2025 (Anzac Day) it is estimated that Gaza deaths from violence (136,000) and imposed deprivation (544,000) total 680,000. Taking into account deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in the ongoing Gaza Genocide it is estimated that the century-long Palestinian Genocide and Palestinian Holocaust has been associated with 2.7 million deaths from violence, 0.2 million, and imposed deprivation, 2.5 million.
Exhaustive analysis of avoidable deaths from deprivation in all countries from 1950 onwards revealed that under-5 infant deaths were about 70% of such avoidable deaths in impoverished countries (Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”). Accordingly, as of Anzac Day 2025, the 544,000 Gaza deaths from imposed deprivation included about 380,000 under-5 infant deaths. Infants are highly vulnerable – thus, for example, breast feeding would be highly problematic for highly traumatized Gaza mothers substantially denied water, food, hygiene, sanitation and other life-sustaining requisites demanded of the Occupier Apartheid Israel by Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
If we assume (in the absence of more definitive data) that of the violent Gaza deaths 33% were children, 21% were women and 46% men (EuroMed Human Rights Monitor, “De-Gaza: A Year of Israel’s Genocide and the Collapse of World Order”, 6 October 2024: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6494/New-report..-De-Gaza:-A-Year-of-Israel%E2%80%99s-Genocide-and-the-Collapse-of-World-Order ) and that the same proportions obtain for the deprivation-based deaths of non-infant children , women and men then the 680,000 Gaza deaths from violence and imposed deprivation by 25 April 2024 included about 479,000 children, 63,000 women and 138,000 men.
Most of the 680,000 Gaza dead are women and children. What sort of barbarians kill children, mothers and women, support such killing, and underestimate the Gaza death toll by a factor of over 10? Words fail. In relation to 479,000 Gazan children killed by 25 April 2025 one turns to the wonderful Jewish Palestinian humanitarian Jesus: “But whoso shall offend ONE of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (The Holy Bible King James Version, The New Testament, Matthew 18:6).
Yet Zionist-perverted Western Mainstream media presently report about 50,000 Gazans killed, a holocaust-denying, over 10-fold undercounting of the 680,000 Gazan deaths from Zionist-imposed violence and deprivation. The famed American consumer advocate Ralph Nader has commented on this over 10-fold undercounting of the Gaza death toll by the Western Mainstream: “Hamas is vested in an undercount to temper accusations by their own people that it has not protected them. (Hamas badly under-estimated the total savagery of the Israeli response to its October 7 attack through a mysteriously collapsed multitiered Israeli border security complex.) The Israeli government also prefers an undercount to temper the rising level of international condemnation and boycotts” (“Exposing the Gaza death undercount by Ralph Nader”, John B. Larson, US Congressional Record, 1 October 2024: https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2024/10/01/170/152/CREC-2024-10-01-pt1-PgE1000-3.pdf ).
The Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp and the 57 year Zionist Israeli Occupation was associated with the deaths of 1,139 Israelis. However prize-winning Western journalists have disputed the “official Zionist Israeli narrative” and it seems increasingly likely that the 7 October 2023 Breakout was enabled to provide an excuse for the complete destruction and ethnic cleansing of Gaza that has now been proposed both by Trump and the Zionazi Israelis. Many of the Israelis killed on 7 October were victims of high explosive firepower of the IDF operating under the Hannibal Directive (prevent hostage taking even if it means killing the hostages).
Assuming that the IDF was responsible for 50% of the 1,139 Israeli deaths on 7 October, the Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio is now 680,000/ 570 = 1,192 or 119 times greater than the Reprisals Death Ratio of 10 ordered by Nazi mass murderer Adolph Hitler and effected by Nazi troops in the 1944 Ardeatine Cave Massacre in Rome. Nazi is as Nazi does. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) has determined that in the prior period of 2008-7 October 2023 the Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio was “only” 21.
On 3 May 2025 Australians will vote for a new Federal Government. Australia has a world leading compulsory and preferential voting system: for a valid vote for a member of the government-determining House of Representatives the voter must numerically indicate preference for all candidates. If a candidate fails to get 50% of more of the vote second preferences are taken into account. A similar system applies in voting for the Senate. Presently there is a pro-Zionist and pro-Apartheid Israel Labor Government elected with the second preferences of the decent, humane and pro-Palestinian human rights Greens. The even more fervently pro-Zionist and pro-Apartheid Israel Liberal-National Party Coalition is in Opposition.
Presently only the Greens, the Socialists, Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, Senator Fatima Payman’s Australia’s Voice and Muslim Votes-approved candidates (perhaps 20% of the primary vote) demand an end to the Gaza Genocide and the illegal Occupation. In stark contrast, Labor and the Coalition (about 70% of the primary vote) are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways.
In relation to the Gaza Genocide the Coalition made itself utterly unfit for government by declaring that it would not enforce International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for child-killing Zionist Israeli war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, foreshadowed quitting the ICC and praised Trump as a “big thinker” over his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
In the forthcoming Federal elections in US lackey and Zionist-perverted Australia decent voters appalled by the Australia-complicit and US-backed Gaza Genocide will reject Labor and the Coalition – they will vote foremost for the humane and truth-telling Greens and like-minded Lidia Thorpe, pro-human rights Socialist, Australia’s Voice and Muslim Votes Matter-approved candidates, put the utterly appalling and International Criminal Court-rejecting Coalition last and cowardly Labor in between.
I am an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and Humanist with a sole national allegiance to the country of my birth, Australia. Over the last 3 decades I have written a thousand huge humanitarian articles and published 9 huge humanitarian books but continuing Zionist defamation has rendered me largely invisible to Mainstream Australia – however I never give up. As Nobel Laureate Albert Camus stated: “But I have always held that, if he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward. And henceforth, the only honourable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that worlds are more powerful than munitions”.
I also send numerous carefully researched and written Letters to numerous Australian Mainstream media informing them of the horrendous Gaza Genocide realities that are ignored by Mainstream Australian journalist , politician , academic and commentariat presstitutes . My cogent Letters are only very rarely published but are routinely immortalized for everyone to read on the Web (for what Mainstream Australian media don’t want their readers to see, know about or think about Google “Mainstream media lying” and “Australian mainstream media lying & censorship” ).
Below are 2 Letters summarizing why Australian voters must put the pro-Apartheid Israel Coalition last in the forthcoming elections.
Letter 1 explaining why voters must put the Coalition last (20 April 2025). “As children we are taught that the key precepts of Humanity are Kindness and Truth. Very few of us are expert moral philosophers so we are guided on Kindness by common observance of the Law, including International Law. Only a few of us are scientists or scholars so we are sensibly guided on Truth by expert and truth-respecting scientific and scholarly opinion. However the Coalition has grossly rejected observance of International Law on genocidal war crimes by repeatedly rejecting International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for child-, mother- and women-killing Zionist Israelis Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant and indeed the ICC itself. The Coalition has blatantly, repeatedly and falsely rejected expert scientific opinion by propagating the lie of “emissions-free nuclear energy”. Yet in our present largely carbon-based economy the nuclear energy option involves massive greenhouse gas emissions from the mining, transporting and refining of uranium ore, the safe disposal of radioactive waste, and the building, maintenance and eventual safe dismantling of nuclear power stations. Children can’t vote but via the present election campaigning are subject to gross intellectual child abuse by Coalition lying and rejection of International Law. Utterly disgusted informed Australians will put the Coalition last”.
Letter 2 explaining why Australian voters not putting the Coalition last are complicit in the Gaza Genocide (21 April 2025). “An expert international team of epidemiologists reported in the leading medical journal The Lancet an estimated 64,260 violent (direct) Gazan deaths by 30 June 2024. “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death” other expert epidemiologists estimated in The Lancet that direct deaths (from violence) plus indirect deaths (from imposed deprivation) totalled 5 times the number of direct deaths i.e. 321,300 total deaths by 30 June 2024. Ignoring several weeks of a Zionist Israeli-violated temporary ceasefire, by Anzac Day 2025 Gaza deaths will total 680,000 (mostly women and children) or 28% of the pre-war population of 2.4 million (the same percentage as for the mass murder of Jewish Hungarians, my people, in 1944-1945 and for North Koreans killed in the Korean War). The Coalition refuses to act on International Criminal Court arrest warrants for 2 major Zionist Israeli perpetrators and cowardly, Zionist-perverted Labor won’t say. Both Labor and Coalition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 25 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Silence is complicity and the Web means that ignorance is no excuse. Australian voters who fail to put the war criminal-supporting Coalition last are likewise complicit in genocide”.
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Final comments and conclusions.
Professor Stewart Rees (wonderful humanitarian Australian scholar, founder of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize, awarded the Jerusalem Al Quds Peace Prize and author of “Cruelty or Humanity”) has demanded that Australians Vote for Humanity in the forthcoming elections. Determined humanitarians like the Greens, the Socialists, Professor Stewart Rees, Senator Fatima Payman’s Australia’s Voices, Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, Muslim Votes and pro-Palestinian human rights organizations like Free Palestine Melbourne and the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network have tried to make the Gaza Genocide the key issue of the upcoming elections. Unfortunately perhaps 80% of my fellow Australian voters will creep into the voting booth, ignore the Australia-complicit mass murder of Palestinian children, and vote for whichever financial inducement package offered by Labor or the Coalition suits them best. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Poor fellow, my country.
Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (2003). He has also published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (2007, 2021), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (1998, 2008, 2022), “US-imposed Post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” (2020), “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” (2020), “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024), and contributed to Soren Korsgaard (editor) “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published – Dangerous Deception Exposed!” (2020). For images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ .
