Saturday, May 21, 2011

R2P UN crowd wants to take out Israel after it's done in Libya


"As the United Nations-backed concept known as “responsibility to protect” enjoys renewed prominence because of the crisis in Libya, a critic of Israel has launched a fresh bid to
  • make a case for outside intervention on behalf of the Palestinians.

Richard Falk, the U.N.’s “special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,” said in a report delivered to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that Israeli policies amount to “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity.”

Falk’s use of the terms was significant, as they are two of four specified criteria in “responsibility to protect,” the doctrine calling for international humanitarian intervention when diplomacy fails.

Although he did not use the phrase “responsibility to protect” in his report, Falk is a keen advocate of the concept, and has argued that no situation in the world is more applicable for intervention under the doctrine than that of the Gaza Strip."...


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