Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
January 05, 2013

On the dismissal of Richard Falk by Human Rights Watch

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Richard Falk, law professor and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied ...
September 28, 2012

Bibi's bombshell blows up in his face

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I thought this was a joke when I first saw it but apparently Netanyahu was serious when he unfurled what purported to be Iran's blueprin...
November 01, 2011

World laughs at Israel

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Listen up for when Israel's casts its vote at the UNESCO conference: UK abstains, Austria yes, Germany no, France yes, China yes, ...
September 17, 2011

BICOM briefing boob

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Many thanks to Mike Cushman on the Just Peace UK list for linking to this Guido Fawkes' blog post about an embarrassing mispost by B...
September 14, 2011

Palestinian bid for statehood

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As anyone who follows these things will know, the Palestinian Authority leadership is intending to make a bid for statehood at the UN. Quite...
July 20, 2011

Marwan Barghouti supports Palestinian bid for UN recognition

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I just read this in Ha'aretz . Jailed leader Marwan Barghouti has called on Palestinians to stage mass rallies in September in support...
July 19, 2011

PA bid for statehood

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There's an article in the Financial Times on the PA's coming bid for admission to the UN.  Here's a piece: This year’s strange...
March 21, 2011

Israel: "colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing"

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That's what the man said, the man being Richard Falk, the UN's man in, well near, Palestine: Israel declines to deal with Falk or e...
February 19, 2011

Obama blocks resolution condemning Israel's settlement activity

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Yet another capitulation by Obama to the State of Israel: The United States on Friday vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution conde...
August 05, 2010

That Israeli flotilla inquiry in full

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Mark Steel has a very funny comment piece in The Independent today. It's about these inquiries that get held into the circumstances su...
October 02, 2009

With PA help, Obama moves Palestine one step closer to genocide

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The Goldstone report was a milestone in demanding accountability from Israel. Unfortunately, to tear one's hair out, it is being buried ...
September 12, 2009

Watching the UN

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Here's a group, an NGO no less, that I've never really paid any attention to before. In fact I can't really recall if I'd ...
May 06, 2009

Israel's man at the U.N.

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Israel's man at the U.N. is no less than U.N. Secretery General Ban Ki-Moon, who knows very well how to please his masters, even if that...
May 02, 2009

Durban and the White-Zionist alliance

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Like Israel their idol, Zionist organizations have a tendency to win wars, and to become weaker and more deranged with every victory. The Du...
January 24, 2009

"Palestinians poised for victory"

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Heart warming stuff in these dark cold days. But that's what Richard Falk is saying in The Nation . I've got to say I have some g...