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- neocognitism, on 04/10/2008, -72/+196This is the behavior of a country that claims it respects human rights?
Hmm, wasn't there some other country that refused UN inspectors, which we and Israel condemned? - Boeing777, on 04/10/2008, -54/+131This is from a country that keeps calling itself "the only true" democracy in the middle east. the same democracy that gives unequal rights to its population. A "democracy" that if you're not ethnical jewish, then you have no rights whatsoever.
- freedomwv, on 04/10/2008, -41/+98Come on Israel, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. They are scared ***** of the world finally seeing exactly what they consider human rights.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -68/+120Typical Israel
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -16/+64Surprise! Like Israel gives a flying ***** about the ***** UN.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -36/+77What a good way to show the world you are innocent, refuse to allow external investigation.
Given the IDF's record of killing noncombatant third parties such as Rachel Corrie, a BBC cameraman, and others, perhaps Mr. Falk is lucky that Israel denies him entry. - Beveridge89, on 04/10/2008, -28/+57Moral outrage is always fun, but I think in these situations it becomes very clear it really is just an attitude we adopt towards people we don't like.
So Israel doesn't want a man who equates them to Nazis to examine its actions while ignoring the Palestinians. Why is that surprising? This guy has clearly already decided on Israels human rights record without going there. Israel, surprising, doesn't want a report that will not only be as harsh as possible to them, but will also ignore the entire context of their actions. At the end of the day, there is nothing outrageous about rational self interest, something any good government should display.
If I can ask a question though; If Israel was allowing in a UN official who called the Palestinians 'animals' and was only investigating their crimes, wouldn't you be condemning them? Please, I am interested to hear how the logic of those who reserve a special disgust for Israel works. - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -75/+101More evidence that they consider themselves to be the Master Race.
- neocognitism, on 04/10/2008, -28/+53Since they've refused the UN Inspectors, this clears the way for a bombing campaign. What other choice is there? The US does not look kindly upon rogue nations that refuse UN Inspectors, and flout UN resolutions. Once we've bombed them a bit, their intransigent position may change. Force is the only thing this warlike regime understands, evidently. It is with a heavy heart I vote to send 30 to 40 Tomahawks immediately, from our nearby ships.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -14/+37"when the UN behaves like this you have every right to refuse their requests."
And when governments segregate people and commit crimes against humanity, the UN tries to do something about it. Israel keeps getting equated to Nazis because they behave like Nazis. - americangoy, on 04/10/2008, -15/+37by definition, if a majority of a population has more rights than the minority, the country is NOT a democracy...
Just like America before the 1960's and the civil rights movement... - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -13/+34Not really. They let them in but they were condemned for not doing so anyway. Unless you're talking about a country other than Iran or Iraq?
- americangoy, on 04/10/2008, -16/+36Incindentally, Mr. Falk is Jewish.
- bentman78, on 04/10/2008, -23/+43The UN commonly blasts Israel while it let's countries like Saudi Arabia and Sudan sit on it's Human Rights council. The UN says nothing of the atrocities committed in these countries or China, yet blasts Israel every chance it gets because they want to defend themselves. They are surrounded by countries that would love nothing more than it's irradication, yet they're supposed to let every single Palestinian in their country, despite the fact they stop someone coming in with a bomb strapped to their chest pretty much every week. Israel allows refugees from other countries into theirs such as the gay Palestinian man who wanted to be with his partner, where he would probably be stoned or hung elsewhere in the M.E. The HRC counsel says nothing about the Hamas sponsered TV programs that teach little kids how to strap bombs to their chests, calls Jews filthy pigs and that they should all be destroyed, yet the Israelis build a fence to protect themselves and there is an international outcry.
This guy compared them to Nazis, that's like comparing black people to primates, it's an insult and it's terrible. The guy is a 9/11 truther and a nutjob. I wouldn't let him in the country either. - LongShlong, on 04/10/2008, -13/+32Typical rogue-nation led by criminal monsters.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -10/+29Quit saying Jews. We're talking about Israel, not Jews. I'm a Jew and I condemn Israel and I certainly don't recognize it as my "mother land", which is a racist concept.
- czman, on 04/10/2008, -14/+32the second paragraph in the article:
"It said it made the decision after Richard Falk told the BBC he stood by comments he made comparing Israel's actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis."
I do not condone the fact they are not letting him in, but I can definitely understand it. this guy seems like some one who has an agenda. he just compared the systematic killing of millions to a political conflict with, while many died, HAS NOT BEEN systematic.
"He understood that it was a provocative thing to say but he had made the comments, he said, to shake the American public from its torpor."
since the guy wants to say provocative things (which are not true) just to "shake" things up, why should israel let him in. seems like the guy has his mind made up already. - neocognitism, on 04/10/2008, -37/+55Supposedly the occupation is over, but Israel says who can and can't go into Palestine? It's more like the prison guards aren't stationed inside the cell blocks anymore, rather they stay in the crow's nests along the prison wall. That's their definition of ending the occupation. Oh, daily IOF incursions and terrorizing of Palestine's citizens don't count, either.
- MrErr, on 04/10/2008, -9/+27Not true. Arab Jews cannot buy land anywhere in Israel. According to Israeli law they israeli Arabs can own at most 2 percent of Israel. Also Israel makes a distinction between a citizen and an israeli national. Jews can be both, arabs cannot.
- Winston84, on 04/10/2008, -30/+47Israel has illegal WMD's, lets invade the Supremacist Homeland and hang their President ..
- iPissExcellence, on 04/10/2008, -5/+21Instead of sending down a UN official, maybe they should send down Technoviking, peace be upon Him, to remind them of who really are the master race
- swrostmore, on 04/10/2008, -15/+31Can we get some UN human rights inspectors here in the US? Since the highest levels of our government "explicitly approved" and even "choreographed" waterboarding sessions, I think its called for.
http://digg.com/world_news/Sources_White_House_Exp ... - wubblie, on 04/10/2008, -19/+35This guy is also calling for an investigation of 9-11 because he believes it was a neocon plot. This guy is a 9-11 "truther," and compares Israel to the Nazi's. The UN considers this as someone who would be an unbiased Human Rights Council?
http://www.nysun.com/news/foreign/un-official-call ... - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -23/+39It's a well-known fact that they have WMDs. They imprison and torture people. They carry out collective punishment. They are in violation of dozens of U.N. resolutions. And they have threatened to wipe their neighbors off the map. Maybe they will respond to a decade of international sanctions, including sanctions on food and medicine. Throw in a no-fly zone over the areas where they bomb their victims from the air.
- LongShlong, on 04/10/2008, -7/+21Antisemitic? Jew never came up... Israel is a rogue nation of criminal monsters. The fact that most of the cronies at the top are Jewish doesn't make someone antisemitic for calling them out for committing the crimes they do.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -7/+21They should. Israel wouldn't exist if the UN hadn't given them half of Palestine.
- dinostabOMG, on 04/10/2008, -6/+20I don't think anyone will deny that, but the fact is that the transgressions exist much more predominantly on the side of the Israeli government and right-wing groups. Statements like yours tend to build the case for equivocation between wrongdoing on both sides; in reality, they do not even remotely compare. The number and gravity of actions committed by Israel against Palestinians is far worse than the still abominable, yet RELATIVELY mild actions of Palestinian resistance groups.
Put it this way, if you make a suicide bomber look relatively mild, you have no complaint when the UN human rights investigator calls you on it. - justinx0r, on 04/10/2008, -22/+35Arabs living in Israel have the same rights as Jewish Israelis. Arab Israelis also hold positions in the Knesset. I don't know what you're talking about.
- orxor, on 04/10/2008, -2/+15Democracy is just tyranny by majority. Most people confuse democracy with liberty.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin - dilibau, on 04/10/2008, -9/+21"He understood that it was a provocative thing to say but he had made the comments, he said, to shake the American public from its torpor. "
so all this diplomatic feud (that in the mean time claims lives of both the Israelis and the Palestinians) is something meant at waking Americans up?! hey Mr. Falk, good luck on that one, you'll definitely need it... - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -4/+16some people are capable of putting their bias's aside in order to be objective...this is where a persons character will be the definition if they can be objective.....who doesn't have a bias?...so you are saying that not one single person on the face of the earth is not capable of being objective?...
- foopirata, on 04/10/2008, -3/+14Interesting points. Thanks.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -19/+30since Falk is more likely to report the TRUTH..who would you send in Herk?...John Bolton.?.
- dinostabOMG, on 04/10/2008, -7/+18This is true, and it has practical implications as well. Palestinians are routinely prevented from buying land, educating their children, and exercising rights that anyone normally called a "citizen" takes for granted. It is no less than apartheid.
- crichton101, on 04/10/2008, -10/+21No, a teenager calling their strict parents fascists is childish. Equating your boss at your job to Hitler or Satan is childish. Comparing someone who is committing atrocities to someone else who committed similar atrocities is called being realistic.
- glasnostic, on 04/10/2008, -15/+26Arabs living in Israel do not have the same rights as Jews.
the simple fact that Israel "must" remain a Jewish majority proves that.
ironically, even other Jews are discriminated against. there are racial slurs that European Jews use to disparage Jews from "Arab" countries. and Jews from Africa are stuck living in squalid conditions. - coldkodiak, on 04/10/2008, -8/+19The U.N. human rights council will be chaired by states like China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia next year.
clearly a body to have respect for.
/me roll eyes - americangoy, on 04/10/2008, -3/+13Yes and no.
From my point of view, all people have biases on all sorts of topics.
Question is, can they be objective anyway? - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -8/+18everyone has a bias...the question is, can they be objective..
- pintomp3, on 04/10/2008, -5/+15israel has nukes too, we need to invade.
- dinostabOMG, on 04/10/2008, -5/+15Sticking up for human rights qualifies as apologizing for terrorists these days, apparently.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -6/+16You're not going to find a humanitarian group that is unbiased against Israel.
That would be like finding a Peta member in a slaughterhouse. - dirigibleduck, on 04/10/2008, -2/+11The funny thing is, it's not *****. The "official" religion of Israel is Orthodox Judaism. Other sects, such as Conservative, Reform, etc., do not have official representation.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -1/+10Lol give them Gaza. It's not like they actually owned it.
- americangoy, on 04/10/2008, -3/+12This has been the DIGG version of the German-British Christmas truce in the trenches during World War 1.
We now resume the vitriol, spewing, name calling, and upmods and burying in progress :-) - geekee, on 04/10/2008, -14/+23FTA
"It said it made the decision after Richard Falk told the BBC he stood by comments he made comparing Israel's actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis."
I wouldn't allow someone with an obvious bias to act as a judge of my actions either. - dirigibleduck, on 04/10/2008, -4/+13There are thousands, if not millions, of Arab Israeli citizens who are treated as second-class citizens by the population (practically, if not by law).
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -17/+26Resolution 42: The Palestine Question (5 March 1948) Requests recommendations for the Palestine Commission
Resolution 43: The Palestine Question (1 Apr 1948) Recognizes "increasing violence and disorder in Palestine" and requests that representatives of "the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee" arrange, with the Security Council, "a truce between the Arab and Jewish Communities of Palestine...Calls upon Arab and Jewish armed groups in Palestine to cease acts of violence immediately."
Resolution 44: The Palestine Question (1 Apr 1948) Requests convocation of special session of the General Assembly
Resolution 46: The Palestine Question (17 Apr 1948) As the United Kingdom is the Mandatory Power, "it is responsible for the maintenance of peace and order in Palestine." The Resolutions also "Calls upon all persons and organizations in Palestine" to stop importing "armed bands and fighting personnel...whatever their origin;...weapons and war materials;...Refrain, pending the future government of Palestine...from any political activity which might prejudice the rights, claims, or position of either community;...refrain from any action which will endager the safety of the Holy Places in Palestine."
Resolution 48: The Palestine Question (23 Apr 1948)
Resolution 49: The Palestine Question (22 May 1948)
Resolution 50: The Palestine Question (29 May 1948)
Resolution 53: The Palestine Question (7 Jul 1948)
Resolution 54: The Palestine Question (15 Jul 1948)
Resolution 56: The Palestine Question (19 Aug 1948)
Resolution 57: The Palestine Question (18 Sep 1948)
Resolution 59: The Palestine Question (19 Oct 1948)
Resolution 60: The Palestine Question (29 Oct 1948)
Resolution 61: The Palestine Question (4 Nov 1948)
Resolution 62: The Palestine Question (16 Nov 1948)
Resolution 66: The Palestine Question (29 Dec 1948)
Resolution 72: The Palestine Question (11 Aug 1949)
Resolution 73: The Palestine Question (11 Aug 1949)
Resolution 89 (17 November 1950): regarding Armistice in 1948 Arab-Israeli War and "transfer of persons".
Resolution 92: The Palestine Question (8 May 1951)
Resolution 93: The Palestine Question (18 May 1951)
Resolution 95: The Palestine Question (1 Sep 1951)
Resolution 100: The Palestine Question (27 Oct 1953)
Resolution 101: The Palestine Question (24 Nov 1953)
Resolution 106: The Palestine Question (29 Mar 1955) 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid.
Resolution 107: The Palestine Question (30 Mar)
Resolution 108: The Palestine Question (8 Sep)
Resolution 111: " ... 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".
Resolution 127: " ... 'recommends' Israel suspends its 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".
Resolution 162: " ... 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".
Resolution 171: " ... determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".
Resolution 228: " ... 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control".
Resolution 237: " ... 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".
Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967): Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area. Calls on Israel's neighbors to end the state of belligerency and calls upon Israel to reciprocate by withdraw its forces from land claimed by other parties in 1967 war. Interpreted commonly today as calling for the Land for peace principle as a way to resolve Arab-Israeli conflict
Resolution 248: " ... 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".
Resolution 250: " ... 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".
Resolution 251: " ... 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250".
Resolution 252: " ... 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".
Resolution 256: " ... 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".
Resolution 259: " ... 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".
Resolution 262: " ... 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".
Resolution 265: " ... 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".
Resolution 267: " ... 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem".
Resolution 270: " ... 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".
Resolution 271: " ... 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".
Resolution 279: " ... 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".
Resolution 280: " ... 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".
Resolution 285: " ... 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".
Resolution 298: " ... 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".
Resolution 313: " ... 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".
Resolution 316: " ... 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".
Resolution 317: " ... 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".
Resolution 332: " ... 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".
Resolution 337: " ... 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".
Resolution 338 (22 October 1973): cease fire in Yom Kippur War
Resolution 339 (23 October 1973): Confirms Res. 338, dispatch UN observers.
Resolution 347: " ... 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".
Resolution 425 (1978): 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon". Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon was completed as of 16 June 2000.
Resolution 350 (31 May 1974) established the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.
Resolution 427: " ... 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
Resolution 444: " ... 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".
Resolution 446 (1979): 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
Resolution 450: " ... 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".
Resolution 452: " ... 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories".
Resolution 465: " ... 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel's settlements program".
Resolution 467: " ... 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".
Resolution 468: " ... 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return".
Resolution 469: " ... 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to deport Palestinians".
Resolution 471: " ... 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
Resolution 476: " ... 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".
Resolution 478 (20 August 1980): 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'.
Resolution 484: " ... 'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors".
Resolution 487: " ... 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility".
Resolution 497 (17 December 1981) decides that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith.
Resolution 498: " ... 'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".
Resolution 501: " ... 'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".
Resolution 508:
Resolution 509: " ... 'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon".
Resolution 515: " ... 'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in".
Resolution 517: " ... 'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
Resolution 518: " ... 'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".
Resolution 520: " ... 'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut".
Resolution 573: " ... 'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters.
Resolution 587 " ... 'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".
Resolution 592: " ... 'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops".
Resolution 605: " ... 'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians.
Resolution 607: " ... 'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Resolution 608: " ... 'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians".
Resolution 636: " ... 'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.
Resolution 641: " ... 'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.
Resolution 672: " ... 'condemns' Israel for "violence against Palestinians" at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
Resolution 673: " ... 'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United Nations.
Resolution 681: " ... 'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of Palestinians.
Resolution 694: " ... 'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.
Resolution 726: " ... 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.
Resolution 799: ". . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.
Resolution 1559 (2 September 2004) called upon Lebanon to establish its sovereignty over all of its land and called upon Syria to end their military presence in Lebanon by withdrawing its forces and to cease intervening in internal Lebanese politics. The resolution also called on all Lebanese militias to disband.
Resolution 1583 (28 January 2005) calls on Lebanon to assert full control over its border with Israel. It also states that "the Council has recognized the Blue Line as valid for the purpose of confirming Israel's withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425.
Resolution 1648 (21 December 2005) renewed the mandate of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force until 30 June 2006.
Resolution 1701 (11 August 2006) called for the full cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. - supermanred, on 04/10/2008, -1/+10Yeah, they should be treated like pigs right? Like the Nazis treated the Jews? Some of you Israels have a ***** up view of the world.
- foopirata, on 04/10/2008, -9/+18Funny, nothing in that site. Seems you've been shouting your mouth off again. Not surprised.
No, I am very much in Israel. Review your notes if you have doubts. Must be difficult to filter your fantasy from truth but it will be a good exercise for your reading comprehension classes.
I am of the Hilton Beach branch, right there in the corner between Ben-Yehuda and Arlozorov. Know that one? Bracha is the manager and Yuri the security guard. Tell them I sent you and you'll get a lollypop.
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