AP . Geneva : The UN rights expert , American Richard Falk , who probes Israel's conduct toward Palestinians , reporting to UN headquarters on March 21 , 2014 , accused the Jewish state of a campaign of ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies .
The realities on the ground are worsening from the point of view of both international law and from the point of view of the Palestinian people , said 82 years old Richard Falk , who is an emeritus law professor at Princeton university , he also strongly rejected claims of anti Semitism , saying they are defamatory and hurtful given that he is Jewish himself .
What is called occupation is now more widely understood to be a form of annexation , the embodiment of apartheid , in the sense that there's a discriminatory dual system of law , giving legal protection to the Israeli settlers and armies , and subjecting the Palestinian population under occupation since 1967 , to a continuing existence without rights , he added .
"" Will this century become known as the age of atrocity ? perhaps what occurred is that the holocaust sealed the situation , and made it patently clear ". "" Yet the holocaust alone would have been enough , all by itself , like a relative shaming a family , the Germans , our human relatives , have ruined all our reputations , not as individuals , they have ruined the reputation of the human family , although we are not all responsible for what those who acted and stood by did , we are all stained . "
"" So vast and intense and varied was the suffering inflicted and undergone then , hence-force must not any human suffering anywhere also be seen and left as part of that holocaust ."
R. Nozick was a controversial and original thinker , an American Jew himself , he wrote these previous lines as a total condemnation of world conscience regarding the holocaust , as he termed it . I honestly wonder , had he lived to our present days , what would his reactions be , as to holocaust descendants in Israel , their acts and conscience .
Yet if other events such as the assertion of racial superiority , apartheid toward indigenous natives , imprisoning their children , stealing their lands , waters , and their livelihood , must now be seen through the prism of Zionism .
The full significance and implications of the ongoing trauma taking place in Palestine dwarf any single person's understanding , certainly they dwarf mine . Is it going to have to take a cataclysm to get us to notice .
I have used lines and words of the writings of the late Nozick , explicitly to make my point through his comments . As usual my many thanks to all .
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