"Richard Falk, the United Nations' "Special Rapporteur" on the occupied territories, says Israel's sanctions on Gaza are a "crime against humanity."

One wonders if the hypocrisy made him blush."

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Bertrand Russell explained how public opinion tends to grant the oppressed a superior virtue. As though the oppressed have to deserve their freedom and rights, beyond their state of oppression. When, however, you deal with an oppressed entity like the Palestinians, with their unfortunate and repetetive choices in favour of violence as a way of settling problems, how can anyone, in good faith, extoll their superior virtue?

So, in order to maintain the necessary perception of moral imbalance between oppressor and oppressed, in favour of the latter, Falk has to pile up on the Israel side of the scales, so that, bad as Palestinians are, they can still be said to be superior to their enemy. And he stakes up the Israeli side of the scales by grotesque and frankly irrational, hyperbole.

The “Special Rapporteur" can be quite Shakespearean in his choice of language, but in the end, his narrative collapses on its own hot air emptiness:

“It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.�?

falk is an idiot!

UNtrue - UNfair - UNinformed - UNengaged

they should have allowed the fawker to come to Israel and then arrested him for his anti semitism.

Just briefly came across an article by Falk on The Nation website, and typed his name into the search engine of CAMERA, where it appears his arguments don't hold water. Thus, I am glad that CAMERA.org is there to help straighten out the anti-Israel bias that goes around in the media. As for The Nation website, I've been pretty turned off by them since they only seem to side with the Palestinians. It's best not to rely on such a slanted news source that has Pro-Palestine (or pro-Israel) bias.