The United Nation's Neutrality
Why is it not at all surprising that the United Nations Human Rights Council's Harvard University-trained expert on Israel charged with investigating allegations of human-rights abuses in the Middle East exemplifies the truly nefarious bias of the United Nations against the State of Israel? Richard Falk is an intellectual, he enjoys propounding his views and findings, and expects respect is due him for his position.This brilliant essayist and geopolitical expert on Israel hasn't the foggiest idea that he should be an exemplar of neutrality. That as an academic who has studied the Middle East, its history and heritage, and the complex relations between the various countries, along with the social, cultural, religious and political situations that exist within each leading to the quality of their inter-relations, he should present a sober analytical picture of his findings.
What he does instead is write frankly in a blog that he maintains, and posts entertaining little photos, graphics and manipulated photos, along with cartoons to make his personal blog all that more interesting. An esteemed professor at Princeton University with dozens of books and articles relating to legal and political issues seen from his elevated and privileged position, he yet succumbs to juvenile posting of a slanderously offensive cartoon.
Depicting a dog consuming a corpse while urinating on Lady Justice. The dog clothed in a garment reading "U.S.A.", wearing a skullcap with the Star of David on it. Now that is the epitome of execrably poor taste. The photograph of a President of the United States and once leader of the free world behind bars reveals another facet of this American professor's mindset. But then, if he were not a far-left intellectual he wouldn't be on the UN's roster of experts.
When UN Watch contacted the high commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, to bring these exciting little items of humour and good taste to her attention, Professor Falk responded by claiming that he knew nothing of the cartoon: "It is a complete lie. I know nothing about such a cartoon, and would never publish such a thing, ever."
Once it was established, however, through the helpful attention of another individual who sent along to Professor Falk a link with the cartoon on his very own website, he appeared to recognize its presence: "Maybe I do not understand the cartoon, and if it offends in this way I have removed it from the blog. It may be in bad taste to an extent I had not earlier appreciated, but I certainly didn't realize that it could be viewed as anti-semitic [sic], and still do not realize."
The professor seems desensitized to the odious connotations of something he obviously found immensely amusing, capturing quite obviously his feelings about his own country, about Jews, Israel and the situation in the Middle East. In other words, the esteemed professor is a self-proclaimed dunce. Professing such nuanced ignorance how can he be deemed capable of analyzing the situation in the Middle East?
He stands convinced that the manner in which the Islamic Republic of Iran views the United States and Israel is the correct view, and how, precisely, is that slant useful to the United Nations? He held out great hope for the ascension of the Ayatollah Khomeini to produce "a desperately needed model of humane governance for a Third World country", and the world today witnesses the calibre of that governance.
Falk gives credence to the conspiracy theorists of 9/11, having written that the "American elites" have "something to hide and much to explain". It would be interesting for him to elucidate, to give his own comprehensive take on the situation, and perhaps he has already done so, but a trifle more discreetly and shielded from public scrutiny. The terror group Hamas "impresses" him in its relationship with the State of Israel.
The quality of this man's perception and interpretation of the region of the world in which he is held to be an expert and given the position of counsel to the Human Rights Council simply serves to edify any who care to observe, the relationship between human rights concerns and the UN's creature offshoots like the Human Rights Council.
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Middle East, United Nations, United States
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, July 09, 2011
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