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UN official who tied Boston bombings to Israel must go, U.S. says
By Olivier Knox,
Yahoo! News White House
Correspondent
“Outraged by Richard Falk's highly offensive Boston comments. Someone who spews such vitriol has no place at the UN. Past time for him to go,” the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, said on Twitter.
Rice was responding to an essay that Falk, who is U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, wrote in Foreign Policy Journal. In it, Falk warns against "darkly glamorizing" the Boston bombings "with flowers and homage" and seems to say the U.S. brought the attacks on itself.
"The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world," Falk said. "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."
"We should be asking ourselves at this moment, 'how many canaries will have to die before we awaken from our geopolitical fantasy of global domination?'" Falk wrote.
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