{"id":5056,"date":"2008-12-19T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T23:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2008-12-19T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T23:12:06","slug":"richard-falk-my-expulsion-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5056","title":{"rendered":"Richard Falk: My expulsion from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Falk, guardian.co.uk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/dec\/19\/israel-palestinian-territories-united-nations\">19 December 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On December 14, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/dec\/15\/middleeast-israelandthepalestinians\">arrived at Ben Gurion airport<\/a> in Tel Aviv, Israel to carry out my UN role as special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>I was leading a mission that had intended to visit the West Bank and Gaza to prepare a report on Israel&#8217;s compliance with human rights standards and international humanitarian law. Meetings had been scheduled on an hourly basis during the six days, starting with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, the following day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/dec\/19\/israel-palestinian-territories-united-nations\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were Richard Falk, guardian.co.uk, 19 December 2008 On December 14, I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}