Saturday, October 23, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Nexus of hate: UN's Richard (Nazi-Israel) Falk given major platform by BBC to slam Israel - 'Now, I know that it is no surprise that Richard Falk -United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights since 2008 -- has come out with yet more hysterical bile against the State of Israel. This is a man, after all, who in a 2007 article entitled, Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust, said the following: "Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with [the] criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not". In fact he's said many things like that. He also continues to flirt with 9/11 conspiracy theories along the lines that it was all a plot cooked up by "neo-cons" in the White House. In other words, he's got all the qualifications you might expect for a senior role with the United Nations Human Rights Council, and to be treated as a credible source for the BBC about problems in the peace process...'
