Richard Falk, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories—and of Jewish extraction—has announced in his final report to the United Nations said that Israel has committed breaches of the Geneva Convention and has committed ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.
His report, which was leaked by the non-governmental organization UN Watch, said that he conceptualizes the role of rapporteur as “bearing witness,” which he said “provides a record of violations by Israel and its defiant attitude, and challenges the United Nations to take steps to ensure compliance.”
The report shows how Israel has ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and has committed horrendous human rights violations for decades. In spite of that fact, there is not outrage against Israel in the Zio-controlled media and no move by the Zio-influenced governments of the West to apply sanctions against the Zionist State!
The Jewish state, Falk noted, did everything that it could to prevent his “bearing witness.”
Falk complained that Israel “refused even minimal cooperation” with his work, noting that he was expelled from Israel in December 2008 and “detained overnight in unpleasant prison conditions.”
He added that he hoped the next rapporteur would receive enough backing from the UN to force Israel to cooperate with their investigations, as well as “better protection against defamatory attacks made by some non-governmental organizations than was the experience of the current mandate holder.”
He wrote that Israel has consistently failed to “comply with clear legal standards embodied in the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War” and in other humanitarian law.
Falk said that Israel’s “oppressive occupation… seems designed to encourage residents to leave Palestine, which is consistent with the apparent annexationist, colonialist and ethnic-cleansing goals of Israel.”
Falk added that the UN has a “crucial role to play” in what he termed a “legitimacy war” against Israel.
Falk described this “war” as “a worldwide struggle to gain control over the debate about legal entitlements and moral properties in the conflict supported by a global solidarity movement that has begun to sway public opinion.”
He encouraged the UN to replace the word “occupation” with “colonial ambitions” as well as “annexation” in order to reinforce the urgency of addressing the situation.
Warning repeatedly of the harm Israel’s policies in the West Bank caused the Palestinian population, Falk also spent a large portion of his report discussing campaigns to support corporate and governmental boycott and divestment from entities with ties to the West Bank.
The special rapporteur clarified that he views the Gaza Strip, from which Israel withdrew forces and settlers in 2005, as occupied and that he holds Israel responsible for failing to uphold the Geneva Convention in the coastal territory.
Falk complained that despite recommendations made by both him and his predecessor, the International Court of Justice has yet to issue an advisory opinion as to whether “the prolonged occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem possess elements of “colonialism,” “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing.”
