According to the BBC, Richard Falk, who is to be the U.N.’s next special investigator for human rights in the Palestinian territories, has compared Israeli actions in Palestinian territories to Nazi actions–and then refused to retract the comparison.
Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of
Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of
what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the
entire population of Gaza.He said he understood that it was a provocative thing to say, but at
the time, last summer, he had wanted to shake the American public from
its torpor. [all emphases mine in these quotes]
The BBC says Falk is even stronger in his criticism of Israel than the man who currently holds the job, John Dugard, who you may recall said:
Israel has taken advantage of the paranoia of non-state terrorism in certain countries to embark on a campaign of state terrorism in the occupied Palestinian Territory. In the process the whole Charter-system, premised on the prohibition on the use of force, self-determination, human rights, and the respect for the rule of law has been brought into contempt.
Dugard said that 4 years ago. Americans didn’t wake up. Lately Rev. Wright got axed for saying Israel had committed "state terrorism." Falk is trying to shake Americans up again. And you wonder why John McCain’s neocon advisers want to replace the U.N. with a League of Democracies.
