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An answer by Professor Richard Falk to a question:
What Should Muslim leading countries do to stop Israeli crimes?
This is the important challenge. In essence, Muslim countries, most especially but actually all countries, should do more than call for a ceasefire, but they should certainly at least do this. More is needed by way of punitive and substantive action in the form of boycotts and sanctions, censure for genocide to halt the Israeli war machine. More is also needed as to the future, ideally accountability for Israel, a just peace for the Palestinians. This is a. moment of truth for the entire world, and it could become a turning point for a better future for humanity, but only if actions taken are done in a spirit of urgency, sacrifice, and sufficiency. We cannot let ourselves, wherever located, become resigned to a toxic fate for the Palestinians imposed by Israeli criminality. Better to heed the words and slogans of the enraged masses in the streets of cities throughout the world than resign ourselves to the rhetoric of governmental leaders that goes no where.
Richard Anderson Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees.In 2004, he was listed as the author or coauthor of 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. Falk has published extensively with multiple books written about international law and the United Nations.
In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967