Date
January 11, 2014
Title
The Emergent Palestinian Imaginary
Author(s)
Richard Falk
Note
UN "expert" and professional antisemite Richard Falk has been allowed to serve out his entire 6-year term as the UN's top human rights investigator on Israel. His term expires in 2014, and he is choosing to bring it to a close by declaring exactly what he stands for - and why he was appointed. He rejects the legitimacy of the state of Israel. He supports violence as a legitimate tool of resistance against Israel, he blames Muslim vs. Muslim violence in Syria, and Egypt on Israel, and he refuses to accept a Jewish state period.
The UN "Human Rights" Council appointed Richard Falk and it could have terminated him at any time. Instead, President Obama joined the Council after Falk was appointed, insisted the United States enter a second 3-year term despite the fact that Falk remained in office, and has become one of the Council's leading cheerleaders.
Without any fear of being denied UN credentials despite voicing hatred for Israel across the globe, here is Richard Falk's latest statement- delivered in Doha, Qatar in December, and posted on his own blog on January 10, 2014.
"[T]he UN partition plan...offered in 1947...was reasonably rejected by the Palestinian leadership at the time as well as by the neighboring Arab governments...
[T]he full implementation of the Palestinian right of self-determination would involve a questioning of this colonialist origin of the state of Israel...
Israel...insists on being 'a Jewish state'...[It is] no longer entitled to claim to be 'a democratic state'...
Israel...policies...impose apartheid...ethnic cleansing...
Israel's continuous inflation of security expectations...In effect, the nakba associated with the dispossession and dispersal of Palestinians in 1948 should be regarded as a process and not just a catastrophic event...
...[A]n oppressive order allows the oppressed to use whatever instruments they find useful, including violence...[I]nter-governmental diplomacy is not a pathway to a just peace, but rather a sinkhole for Palestinian rights...Those who insist on special 'security' arrangements usually fear losing what is possessed...[T]his is a time to take stock...a time for the renewal of struggle...
Israel has used its hard power dominance and diplomatic skills to encourage fragmentation and to impart a disabling sense of utter vulnerability to any Leadership in the region that dares challenge or threaten Israel. Iran has been the principal target of this Israeli projection of a tendency to punish disproportionately and violently those that stand in the way or exhibit hostility to the Israeli National Project. Syria is illustrative of the sort of fragmentation that weakens a neighboring country that has been hostile or in a conflictual relationship with Israel. A welcoming of the Egyptian coup that displaced the democratically elected government with an oppressive military leadership is a further disclosure of Israel's conception of its security interests...
[I]n Palestine [there] is a definite move toward the adoption of a Legitimacy War conception of how to interpret the Palestinian National Movement at the present time...It is not in the Palestinian interest to act as if the Oslo Framework or the Roadmap are any longer credible paths to a sustainable and just peace...[A] Legitimacy War against Israel...appears to be the one vision capable of...bring[ing] hope for a brighter Palestinian future."
The UN "Human Rights" Council appointed Richard Falk and it could have terminated him at any time. Instead, President Obama joined the Council after Falk was appointed, insisted the United States enter a second 3-year term despite the fact that Falk remained in office, and has become one of the Council's leading cheerleaders.
Without any fear of being denied UN credentials despite voicing hatred for Israel across the globe, here is Richard Falk's latest statement- delivered in Doha, Qatar in December, and posted on his own blog on January 10, 2014.
"[T]he UN partition plan...offered in 1947...was reasonably rejected by the Palestinian leadership at the time as well as by the neighboring Arab governments...
[T]he full implementation of the Palestinian right of self-determination would involve a questioning of this colonialist origin of the state of Israel...
Israel...insists on being 'a Jewish state'...[It is] no longer entitled to claim to be 'a democratic state'...
Israel...policies...impose apartheid...ethnic cleansing...
Israel's continuous inflation of security expectations...In effect, the nakba associated with the dispossession and dispersal of Palestinians in 1948 should be regarded as a process and not just a catastrophic event...
...[A]n oppressive order allows the oppressed to use whatever instruments they find useful, including violence...[I]nter-governmental diplomacy is not a pathway to a just peace, but rather a sinkhole for Palestinian rights...Those who insist on special 'security' arrangements usually fear losing what is possessed...[T]his is a time to take stock...a time for the renewal of struggle...
Israel has used its hard power dominance and diplomatic skills to encourage fragmentation and to impart a disabling sense of utter vulnerability to any Leadership in the region that dares challenge or threaten Israel. Iran has been the principal target of this Israeli projection of a tendency to punish disproportionately and violently those that stand in the way or exhibit hostility to the Israeli National Project. Syria is illustrative of the sort of fragmentation that weakens a neighboring country that has been hostile or in a conflictual relationship with Israel. A welcoming of the Egyptian coup that displaced the democratically elected government with an oppressive military leadership is a further disclosure of Israel's conception of its security interests...
[I]n Palestine [there] is a definite move toward the adoption of a Legitimacy War conception of how to interpret the Palestinian National Movement at the present time...It is not in the Palestinian interest to act as if the Oslo Framework or the Roadmap are any longer credible paths to a sustainable and just peace...[A] Legitimacy War against Israel...appears to be the one vision capable of...bring[ing] hope for a brighter Palestinian future."
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