Craig Mocaber, the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, resigned a few days ago because of the UN's «failure» to «stop» what he described as a «textbook case of genocide» in the Gaza Strip, three weeks after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, according to a report in the New York Daily News, reported by the German News Agency.
This is a «textbook case of genocide», he said in a letter dated 28 October to Falker Turk, the High Commissioner. «The European, nationalist project to colonise Palestine has entered its final phase», that of «the rapid destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life», he continued.
He also accused Western governments of being «totally complicit in this horrific attack»: «Not only do these governments refuse to fulfil their treaty obligations to ‘guarantee compliance’ with the Geneva Convention, but they are in fact actively arming» Israel to continue the attack, «providing financial and intelligence-gathering support» and «political and diplomatic cover for Israel's atrocities».
The content of his letter is in line with recent posts by Mr Mocaber on social networking sites. «The genocide we are witnessing in Palestine is the result of decades of impunity afforded to Israel by the US and other Western governments» and «the dehumanization of the Palestinian people by the Western corporate media,» he said the other day via X (formerly Twitter).
