Word: falke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Princeton Professor of International Law Richard Falk, it got significantly worse. Last June, Falk appeared on a BBC episode of “Panorama” that explored the role of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre. Falk, who is Jewish and who was a part of the international commission that investigated Sharon’s involvement in the massacre, stated that he had “no doubt whatsoever” that Sharon is indictable as a war criminal. Over the course of the next few weeks, the phone calls and hate mail...
...irrational fear exhibited by the people who harassed Falk is not exceptional. It happens in every country, particularly in times of crisis or war. When a country goes to war, its people develop a warped sense of patriotism. The government, the state, and the people become conflated into a single entity. Thus, to criticize the government is tantamount to disparaging the state and the people. In America, we are as guilty of this as anyone. When President Bush declared the War on Terror, too few of us questioned the logic and methods behind our government’s plan...
...have a personal incentive to end your government’s frightful policies. There is a growing international campaign to indict you for your part in the 1982 massacres in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps, with Belgium willing to host your trial. Princeton professor of international law Richard Falk affirms that there is “no doubt whatsoever” that you are indictable as a war criminal. Even Israeli newspapers have begun using the term “war crime” to describe not only your checkered past, but also your recent house demolitions...
...money, and while some of it could revert to a future Afghan government, this may not deter potential plaintiffs--including victims of the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. "For families of victims, suing bin Laden and the Taliban is a way of fighting back," says Pamela Falk, a law professor at the City University of New York. If Congress lists Afghanistan as a terrorist state, she says, "the prospects have never looked better...
...finds out that not only is his father sick, but apparently, the family business doesn’t involve tile or stucco—it involves running numbers and other unmentioned mafia-type things. For his entire life, he has been oblivious to the fact that his father (Peter Falk, “Columbo”) is the leader of an underground crime ring...