United Nations Official Blames Boston Terror on Israel-US Ties

A UN official Richard Falk blames the Boston Marathon attack on American support for Israel.

The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. In some respects the United States has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and these may yet happen, especially if there is no disposition to rethink US relations to others in the world, starting with the Middle East. . .

Now at the start of his second presidential term, it seems that Obama has given up altogether, succumbing to the Beltway ethos of Israel First.

No surprise: Falk, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine previously compared Hamas to the French resistance of World War II, endorsed 9/11 “inside job” conspiracy theories, and called indiscriminate Gaza rocket fire at Israel, “survival screams.”

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