‘Israel operates below a local weather of absolute impunity,’ says Craig Mokhiber, former high UN official.
For the reason that begin of Israel’s battle on Gaza the United Nations has been below strain. Greater than 85 p.c of the Gazan inhabitants is presently homeless and residing in dire situations, whereas the UN stays in political gridlock.
Three weeks after the start of Israel’s battle on Gaza, the previous director of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokibher, resigned from his publish, protesting that the UN was “failing” in its obligation to forestall what he referred to as a “textbook case of genocide” in opposition to Palestinians in Gaza. He additionally accused the US and most of Europe of being complicit.
So, is the UN failing in its obligation to forestall the bloodbath in Gaza? And what’s at stake for the way forward for Palestine?
On UpFront this week, Marc Lamont Hill discusses the function of the UN in Israel’s battle on Gaza with Craig Mokhiber, the previous director of the New York workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights.