According to Rick Falk’s blog ( http://richardfalk.wordpress.com/ ), the Boston Marathon murders and mayhem are the direct result of “Tel Aviv (having) the compliant ear of the American political establishment.”
The interesting thing about Falk is that he is the U.N.'s Human Rights Council special rapporteur for the Palestinians. He also is, according to a Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Falk), “an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, speaker, and activist on world affairs.”
The “Iraq War is a war of aggression, and as such, that it amounts to a Crime against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted, prosecuted and punished at the Nuremberg trials conducted shortly after the Second World War.” (Wikipedia, ibid.)
In a book-length paragraph on his blog (ibid.), Falk seems to blame “Tel Aviv” (he apparently ignores the fact that Jerusalem is Israel’s seat of government, in itself telling) for all the world’s conflict potential. “The war drums are beating at this moment in relation to both North Korea and Iran, and as long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy.”
Falk’s ravings have been censured by the UN’s incumbent Secretary-General on Jan. 24, 2010. According to UN Watch, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. “On the eve of a U.S. Congressional hearing into the U.N. Human Rights Council, the controversial body’s Palestine expert, Richard Falk, was “condemned” today by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his “preposterous” comments questioning whether the 9/11 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government. Mr. Ban said Falk’s remarks were “an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in the attack.” ( http://tinyurl.com/4blduyw)
The U.S. government, still the UN’s chief money source, has several times called for Falk’s dismissal for his outrageous one-sided and anti-Israel comments. He has taken his role of “rapporteur” – defined by Merriam-Webster as “a person who gives reports (as at a meeting of a learned society)” – and made it a bully pulpit for his Palestinian masters.
So what else is new?
