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"An Interview with Richard Falk on the Crisis in Gaza
by KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
Richard Falk is an American professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. He just completed a six-year term as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. He was appointed to this role by the UN Human Rights Council, in 2008..."
"KK: What is the US role in the aerial bombardment campaign?
"RF: The US is definitely complicity and legally accountable, at least in theory, that this weaponry is not supposed to be used except in accordance with international law; and if the whole undertaking is a violation of international law, then the United States is a responsible, and should diplomatically, have been seeking to restrain and censure Israel rather than to lend its support"
Any other country on the planet doing what Israel did to Gaza would be facing sanctions like those imposed on Saddam or Iran.
Maybe it's the $$$$$$$?
An Interview with Richard Falk on the Crisis in Gaza » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
by KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
Richard Falk is an American professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. He just completed a six-year term as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. He was appointed to this role by the UN Human Rights Council, in 2008..."
"KK: What is the US role in the aerial bombardment campaign?
"RF: The US is definitely complicity and legally accountable, at least in theory, that this weaponry is not supposed to be used except in accordance with international law; and if the whole undertaking is a violation of international law, then the United States is a responsible, and should diplomatically, have been seeking to restrain and censure Israel rather than to lend its support"
Any other country on the planet doing what Israel did to Gaza would be facing sanctions like those imposed on Saddam or Iran.
Maybe it's the $$$$$$$?
An Interview with Richard Falk on the Crisis in Gaza » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names