Hardtalk: Richard Falk 1

Hardtalk: Stephen Sackur talks to Professor Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories , about his suggestion that Israel has "genocidal tendancies".

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[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

[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"

[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.

[ciaran1981]

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

[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.

[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

[SillyBee111]

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

[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.

[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]

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

[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

[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.