Great power competition has emerged as a key priority for U.S. foreign policy under the Biden administration. In fact, we may be already at the start of a new New Cold War, according to Richard Falk, one of the world’s leading scholars in the fields of global politics and international law, in the interview below. Falk has also been a leading activist since the Vietnam war, and has published more than fifty books and thousands of essays.
OPT/Israel: Commission of Inquiry needed to advance accountability, address root causes
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HRW statement to Human Rights Council Special Session
(Geneva, May 27, 2021) Once again, this Council gathers to address the latest cycle of violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
We could go through the statistics - hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of children, killed in Israeli airstrikes; at least a dozen civilians in Israel killed by indiscriminate Hamas rocket attacks; the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including large apartment and office buildings; the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
But we have been here before, and tragically, we will be here again, unless three things change:
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The UN Human Rights Council is going to discuss creating a broad, international investigation into violations surrounding the latest Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip.
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