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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					02/11/2010 &#8211; 09:28 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">DOHA, (PIC)&#8211; Richard Falk, the UNHRC  Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, has accused the  United States of blindly backing Israel and of striving hard to drop  Article VII of the UNHRC charter that would make conditions in occupied  Palestine more complicated.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a televised interview with Al-Jazeera  satellite TV channel on Monday regarding the matter, Falk explained that  the United States could not be an honest peace broker in the region due  to its blind and unconditional political support for Israel, its main  ally in the region.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He, however, expressed hope that the US  move will not succeed because &#8220;The council is an inseparable part of the  UN organization where the USA had failed to achieve much successes in  the past&#8221;.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;Indeed, I will be surprised if the US  diplomacy in this regard succeeded&#8221;, Falk pointed out, warning that  deleting such clause from the UNHRC charter would cancel any possible  use of force backed by the United Nations to implement &#8220;binding&#8221;  resolutions of the UNSC regarding the Palestinian-Israeli struggle.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">But he opined that based on his experience  and knowledge of the mentality of the UNHRC member states, the American  drive in this regard will not succeed, reminding that the UNHRC has  pushed ahead with the investigation committee to probe the Freedom  Flotilla massacre last May at the hands of the Israeli navy despite  strong US and Israeli opposition.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For its part, the human rights  organization Dhameer (Conscience) pointed out in a statement in Gaza on  Monday that Israel had filed a proposal to delete Article VII from the  UNHRC charter in order to confine dealing with the Palestinian issue to  the minimum level through a report made every four years, and to make  mentioning the Golan Heights next to impossible.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Israeli proposal gained the blessing of the USA and its allies in the council, the HR group highlighted.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It stressed that the Article VII of the  UNHRC was an essential gain for human rights movement in the world, and  that any move to delete it would mean direct and plain support for the  occupation, and clear resignation of the council from handling the  Palestinian issue.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7pol25Me42nQUSt5TzNjo3x3RwxyjolaL2F4hX42kz61%2ftrc0fNpB8dsdqOKovVrajxL2NC7h1JAA%2fpi4jrf7z17EE6kP6tRJtjhYAZfnZ9c%3d">Falk: UNHRC should not drop Article VII</a>.</p>
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