Palestinian Recourse to the ICC: The Time Has Come
Recourse to the ICC remains a valuable trump card in the PA’s deck, and playing it might begin to change the balance of forces bearing on the conflict.
Read MoreRichard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. From 2008 until May 2014, he was the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Posted by Richard Falk | Jul 22, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine |
Recourse to the ICC remains a valuable trump card in the PA’s deck, and playing it might begin to change the balance of forces bearing on the conflict.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 18, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine |
It is the presence or absence of political will that is the decisive factor in determining whether victimized people, such as those in Gaza, will be protected or not.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 15, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine |
For the third time in the last six years, Israel has cruelly unleashed the full fury of its military machine against the defenseless 1.7 million people of Gaza.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 26, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine |
Future alternatives for Palestine need to be imagined and appraised. Five seem worth pondering, and each has some plausibility.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 23, 2014 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
It is right to celebrate the outcome of the vote in Presbyterian Church decreeing the divestment of companies associated with Israel’s occupation.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 20, 2014 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
Richard Falk writes a letter to the New York Times illustrating how public opinion about the Israel-Palestine conflict is distorted by the American media.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 17, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine |
The Palestinian national movement needs to mobilize nonviolent militant resistance and solidarity support to prepare the path for a just peace for Palestine.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 9, 2014 | News & Analysis, US |
Obama’s conception of US leadership is depressingly similar to the commencement address given by George W. Bush at West Point twelve years ago.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 6, 2014 | Middle East, News & Analysis |
France presented a resolution to the UN Security Council on 22 May calling upon the ICC to investigate allegations of war crimes in Syria.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 30, 2014 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
I am not surprised that there are such contradictory reactions to Pope Francis’ recent visit to Palestine and Israel.
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