I’m always so surprised when someone comes out and says it. Now wait for the character assassination any minute now:
(Reuters) – A U.N. human rights investigator accused Israel on Friday of “ethnic cleansing” in pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and cast doubt that the Israeli government could accept a Palestinian state in the current climate.
He spoke against a backdrop of deadlocked peace talks and accelerating Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem which Palestinians say is dimming their hope of establishing a viable state on contiguous territory.
Israel says Palestinian refusal to recognise it as a Jewish state is the main obstacle. U.S. President Barack Obama this week pressed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to help break the impasse, saying both sides must take political risks before the April 29 deadline for a framework deal.
Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, told a news conference that Israeli policies bore “unacceptable characteristics of colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing”.
“Every increment of enlarging the settlements or every incident of house demolition is a way of worsening the situation confronting the Palestinian people and reducing what prospects they might have as the outcome of supposed peace negotiations.”
Asked about his accusation of ethnic cleansing, Falk said that more than 11,000 Palestinians had lost their right to live in Jerusalem since 1996 due to Israel imposing residency laws favouring Jews and revoking Palestinian residence permits.
“The 11,000 is just the tip of the iceberg because many more are faced with possible challenges to their residency rights.”
After WWII the world allowed Zionist squatters to throw the Palestinians out of their homes and steal their land. But this will all be over very soon. The border between Iraq and Syria no longer exists. There are over a million Syrian refugees in Jordan. The border between Syria and Lebanon no longer exists. Iran controls the politics of Iraq. Hezbollah controls Lebanon. Fatah (PLO) and Hamas have joined forces. Yemen is in civil war. The next government to fall will be the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Sunni’s are finished. So is the “Jewish” state of Israel.
“The next government to fall will be the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Sunni’s are finished. So is the “Jewish” state of Israel.”
That would be most interesting.
What leads you to say this, IM?