Israel Accused of 'A Form of Ethnic Cleansing' http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54972

If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here," says Israeli columnist Sefi Rachlevsky in the Israeli daily 'Haaretz'.He adds: "If there is one country in the world that should have heeded the commandment 'Thou shall not fall into the chasm of anti-democratic racism,' it is Israel. But the regime threatens to turn Israel into a rising anti-democratic power after all." 

Rachlevsky's remarks come in the wake of an accusation by Richard Falk -- an investigator with the U.N. Human Rights Council and an American professor emeritus of international law' -- that Israel is carrying out a form of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Falk was addressing the council on Monday as it prepared to pass a resolution condemning settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. "The continued pattern of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem combined with the forcible eviction of long-residing Palestinians is creating an intolerable situation in the part of the city previously controlled by Jordan," Falk said.