Another high caliber appointee to the UN human rights apparatus:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020272.php
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The United Nations Human Rights Commission has appointed Richard Falk,
a former Princeton professor, to a six-year term as "special
investigator on Israeli actions in the territories." Israel has
denounced the appointment, since Falk is a virulent critic of Israel.
Falk has written that Israel is comparable to Nazi Germany, and he has
condoned mass murder bombings by Palestinians, while accusing Israel
of "state terrorism."
Falk is, in addition, a "truther." For those who don't frequent the
fever swamp, a "truther" is someone who believes that the United
States government carried out the September 11 attacks.
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Falk also wrote a preface to a "truther" book called The New Pearl
Harbor, in which he said:
There have been questions raised here and there and allegations of
official complicity made almost from the day of the attacks,
especially in Europe, but no one until Griffin has had the patience,
the fortitude, the courage, and the intelligence to put the pieces
together in a single coherent account.
This is the sort of person the UN's Human Rights Council deems ideally-
suited to monitor and re****t on Israel's treatment of the
Palestinians. We'll give the last word to former U.N. Ambassador John
Bolton:
This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council.
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