UN Expert Stands by His Comment Stating Israeli Conduct Same As Nazis | ||||
Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now But Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatments 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 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.
"If this kind of situation had existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no reluctance to make that comparison," he said. That reluctance was, he argued, based on the particular historical sensitivity of the Jewish people, and | |
We feel that the new UN investigator Mr Richard Falk has just spoken the minimum truth. We congratulate that he decided not to retract his statement on Israeli conduct. The record of
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