Hardtalk: Richard Falk 1

[ciaran1981]

Pathetic & cheap tabloid style interrogation by a crap sensationalist journalist stephan sackur

[SillyBee111]

When is Israel going to allow inspection of it Nuclear arsenal?

[JudithStone]

J37IL your 1000 live terrorists are Palestinian freedom fighters, as well as men, women & children civilians. You've got an illegal country imprisoning native people of the land (those who aren't outright slaughtered). You might as well come to terms with the fact that the world is opening its collective eyes and seeing the horrors that have been perpetrated by Israel. The European holocaust is past history - long past now - we don't have the right to inflict misery upon another people. Shame

[J37IL]

what smore interesting is the 800 thousand jews EXPELLED from Arab countries in 1948 becuase of Israels creation. WHERE IS THEIR RIGHT OF RETURN? Their property, Money , Oil fields......all in Arab hands.. do you think they will even see any of it back NO. if they went back to thier homes theyd been murdered. Would you then stand up for them? i guess not as you are a one sidded bigott

[JudithStone]

J37IL, I've been to Haifa. Arabs living in Israel are second class citizens, quietly angry. The tension is palpable. Israel exempted itself from UN mandates; that's just fact. Palestine was TAKEN from it's indigenous people by Europeans. Of course, other Arab lands would expel their Jewish populations in rage. Interesting that 80,000 Israelis have LEFT to live as expatriots, including those who are returning to Iran and reclaiming land and wealth, despite US offers of a free ride in Israel.

[peachybeach]

u must be kidding

are u going to sit here and compare 800 people to a whole nation with all its people, villages, towns, cities ..etc a whole culture was uprooted in 1948 by the terrorists para military groups such as Haganah and Urgoon and others.Most jews who lived in Arab countries left volunteerly and even if ,as u say, were "EXPELLED" it probably was a response to the terror expressed on the Palestinians

[J37IL]

im copparing 800 thousand Jews my dear. Accoring to the UN! And no , they did not leave "volunterely" at all as i can vouch with my family.On the other hand the Arab nations told the Palestinian people to up and leave Paestine priomising them that it would be cleansed of Jews by them and they could return. But also your history is a joke. In the ealry 1900 before the creation of Israel Arabs murdered hundred of Jews who'd been living their for centuries. Israel will remain Jewish for ever.

[peachybeach]

OK so there were 800 000 jews living among the arabs and suddenly just before 1948 the arabs decided to kill them all?! the fact that there even were 800,000 jews living among arabs at the time completely disproves your own claim. And one more thing, if Israel is a jewish state as you say, and indeed it is so, but why does Israel brag about being a secular democracy. Israel is an illegal and terrorist state period.

[Braindrain3]

@J37IL prior to the creation of israel muslims, jews and christians were all living on the land peacefully with each other. after the "creation" of israel did the jews go on a murdering rampage. you need to get your facts right. there are countless misconceptions in regards to the state of the land prior to the seizure of land.

[JudithStone]

J3, 20 Israelis have been killed by Hamas rockets in10 yrs. Want to compare that to the number of dead Palestinians murdered by IDF in the past month? A people have the right to defend themselves against occupation and misery. That is what we call a 'freedom fighter'. That American tax payers are subsidizing this ruthless slaughter is the greatest sin. Please don't conclude that any Jew who doesn't support Israel is really a Muslim. You're saying that all Jews follow herd mentality?

[J37IL]

Lets get into prespective.

If Israel must release 1000 live terrorists with blood on their hands for 2 dead Israeli soldiers then it equates for much more. 1 Jew = 500 Muslems! And thats an Arabic equation.

Lets also compare the number of Jews in this world to the number of Muslems. I thank youll find that there are 11 Million jews compared to Billions of Muslems. So your number game of " numner comparisons" sounds great until you look at the bigger picture.

[JudithStone]

Ridiculous. There are far more Chinese in the world than Japanese. Does 1 Japanese = 500 Chinese. There are 1.7 billion Muslims in the world, not 'billions'. The bigger picture is that a small illegal country that doesn't abide by UN mandates is murdering and making life a hell on earth for an indigenous people. Those people, the Palestinians, aren't just lying down and dying, and are behaving as one might expect a people who have been subjected to abject misery for 60 years to behave.

[J37IL]

what is Ridiculous is that the 2 dead Jews are worth 1000 live prisoners by Muslem demends, not Israels.Your arguments now are getting worse 1. Israel is not an Illegal country. 2. Hamas as well as the 30 Arab countries do not abiude by UN resolutions,,, just look at Iran. 3. Arabs lving within Israel enjoy the same rights as any Jew. The ones that dont want to live in peace do not. I suggest you come to haifa and see just how Aarabs and Jews live side by side when killing Jews is not the fasion

[Eye0fTheStorm]

1) "Israel is not an illegal country"

How the hell is Israel not an illegal country? How can a goddamn British diplomat (Balfour) give away a country which belongs to people who have been living there for over a thousand years, to jews as a way to pay penance for European anti-semetism?

It is absolutely absurd. Belfour should have chopped england and half and created a jewish state. What right does he (a brit) have to give away an entire country? Please. Give me a berak

[Eye0fTheStorm]

3) Wrong. If that was the case, they would simply let in the millions of Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps because they got kicked out of their country. But they don't want a one state solution because then they would be outnumbered and it would no longer be a jewish country.

A country based on the very foundation of what racism means.

[J37IL]

your asking a muslam fanatic about Gaza what do you think hes gonna say.

Look at this guy islamic thru and thru

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[JudithStone]

J37IL, you seem to think that anyone who disagrees with you is a Muslim. Seen your posts elsewhere. Please be aware that more and more Jews every day are taking the blinders off and standing up for human rights for a people living in the largest open air prison ever created on this planet; a desperate, starving people with no hope for the future. Put you in the same situation, J37IL, and I dare to suggest you might lob a couple of homemade firecrackers in the direction of your enemy as well.

[J37IL]

hmm "homade fircrackers eh?

id love to see just what your kids look like when one lands in their kindergarten.

Swiss cheese. Let me tell you something. Gaza is no funfair. Living there must be like hell i agree. However one must open their eyes to the realitys of Gaza. Its doctrine and ideology behind the walls , the TV programes of Mickey mouse as a suicei bomber and the destruction of the Jewish people. (see Hamas's charter for more info)

Your a Jihadist fool possing as a Jew ..u dont fool me

[lewko1]

Falkner is a lying coward and an antisemite. He will fit right in at the UN!

[orangewilliam]

Stephen Sackur is easily the best journalist the BBC has.

it is amazing he survives in the sea of drooling Maoists that populate the rest of the organisation.

Yet again he has the intellect and courage to expose another anti semetic, tin foil hatted leftist loony employed by the morally bankrupt UN.

[triplecheck4]

Google: UCLA: Symposium of hate and lies

He has not clue about what is human or what is right. He is a fool!

[bajawind]

jews are every bit as guilty as the nazis!

never again my *ss.

[pathbird]

In 1967, the nation of Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty (in international waters) with fighter jets and boats and murdered 34 U.S. Naval crew and wounded over 100. SEE Wikipedia

This is an act of war!

Currently, the Israelis are treating the Palestinians just like the Nazis treated them during WWII.

I believe the nation of Israel has a right to exist and so do the Paliestinians. But not to the point of acting like the Nazis. ANYONE who commits war crimes should be put on trial.

[iatajik]

finally some one stand up and tells the truth,,good job Richard Falk

[rtpricetag]

The United Nations (195 members) is documented with considerable resolutions concerning the atrocities of Israel, however the UN is controlled by the Super-Empires that formed the agency as (their) front.

Can you believe this can of worms (5 founder Permanent member Empires... Russia/China, Brit/USA, France).

So of course these "can of worms" control the UN with their (only) veto, stopping world justice in it's tracks... the nations of world should drop this 'snake-pit'.

[tcarr1989]

oh wow, yet another, "encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion;" (chapter 1 article 1 #3)Israel by blockading Gaza is once again denying Palestinians their fundamental freedom to eat

[lewko1]

Last week, the Palestinians turned down a shipment of food from IRan, which had been sniffed by bomb detector dogs. Staving people don't do that. Cherie Blair was photographed in a Gaza shop, with fruit, veg, chocolate and all manner of the regular groceries one might expect. This was in the same week she was accusing Israel of "starving" the Palestinians.

Look at Africans. Look at Ethiopians. Then look at the Palestinians. They aren't starving, and that is blatant propaganda. They are liars.

[tcarr1989]

okay well article 1-1 & 1-2 already tells me that the UN is against acts of agression= the Israel blockade of Gaza(there is simple one that you can find without listening to Falk) it also believes in "solving international problems of a...humanitarian character." which is all of the effects of the Israeli blockade on Gaza, I think you need to re-read the charter, Falk seems to be following it by the book.

[eniara9]

i admire richard falk. bravo

[MihailMihailovitch]

You missed my point...I am not saying anything other than that Falk is the wrong man for the job...the UN is supposed to be impartial otherwise it doesn't really have a function and Falk is far from impartial....He's just another ladder-climbing academic looking to cash in on other people's human misery...it's not a question of his having his opinion...he's free to do that, but he shouldn't be posing as an impartial mediator which is what the UN has asked him to do.

[tcarr1989]

so your version of impartial is supposed to be" oh everything is fine here, people are starving and dying but uhhh i am impartial to it." The thing is impartial people do not give in to the imperial powers and are willing to tell the truth regardless of the consequences. Being impartial means going into something without taking sides, taking information in and deciding what the right thing to do is. NOT being complacent and saying" well i don;t know i'm impartial to it" that accomplishes nothing

[MihailMihailovitch]

Tt's not my version of what is impartial it's what the UN is supposed to be....the whole point of the UN is to stand between warring factions and not to take sides...unfortunately the UN has taken a side against Israel equating zionism with racism....that may satisfy the enemies of Israel but it diminishes the UNs ability to be a mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict....Please read the UN charter before continuing this discussion OK? I am not 'pro' Israel...I just don't trust people like Falk.

[MihailMihailovitch]

This is a pathetic performance. The UN has one again outdid itself in cluelessness in appointing Falk who has 'own agenda' tattooed on his forehead.If I were the Israelis I would kick him out as well...not for his ideas...just for being a dork.

[tcarr1989]

really? own agenda against the killing of innocents? Damn what a terrible terrible agenda... Those comments make me think you are a dork is it okay for me to kick you out of your house? NO thats called FREEDOM and that means allowing people to have their own opinions regardless if you like them or not.

[sherbuy]

Richard Falk is a confused intellectual, he cant tell the truth in his jumbled mind. He comes off as an incapable fool, unable to see reality clearly. Just another mad professor.

[ZIONISMisFASCISM]

the truth cannot be stopped - thanks richard falks

zionism means fascism

[kingkass08]

muslims rule dude

[JOlsson01]

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."

The Hamas Charter

[tcarr1989]

source? where can I find this?

[astanagemilang]

bravo Richard Falk

[astanagemilang]

bravo Richard Falk

[Tralgit]

No he changed his mind! Palli are self responsible for there own problems, you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

[Eye0fTheStorm]

You too would be "living by the sword" if i came into your house with armed men and said "This house now belongs to us. You and your family go live in the backyard. And if you even look at us funny were going to blow your heads off"

[Tralgit]

Muslims have always been living by the sword, that's the way they build their caliphate including what is now Israel. Remember the Crusades? Muslims conquered the whole Middle East by force and killed everything in their way, so it's now payback time!!! They don't "belong "there, they are the "invaders and conquerors ".

[Eye0fTheStorm]

The Crusades were launched BY CHRISTIANS. Learn your history. So what if muslim empire expanded militarily. So did the greeks under Alexander, so did the Romans, so did the Mongols, so did the French and the British. So did every empire in history

There is only justice and injustice

Oppression of Africans and South Asians by colonial powers was injustice. Oppression of jews by early Europe was injustice. Likewise Oppression of Palestinian people by Israel in the name of Zionism too is INJUSTICE

[Tralgit]

Maybe you can't read; the Crusades was a effort by the Christians to push the muslims out of the holy land. So the Christians didn't go there for fun, there was a request done by the pope to FREE the holy land of muslim occupation. The Romans conquered from the Israelites who were the original inhabitants. History is very interesting, forget the palliwood claims, they are just lying through there teeth.

[Eye0fTheStorm]

Are you listening to yourself? Who gave the fucking pope the right to "free the holy land". Muslims are very close to Jerusalem from a religious point of view. It is the second holiest place to Muslims outside of Mecca. Jews and Muslims were livign in peace in Palestine and what is now Israel for hundreds of years. Who asked the pope sitting on his ass in Europe to issue a decree that started a blood bath in the name of "religion"? And then you have the audacity to say "remember the crusades?"