<Li> Somalia, Mr. Shamsul Bari (Bangladesh); </Li> <Li> Sudan, Mr. Mashood Baderin (Nigeria) </Li> <P> According to a UN press release, then Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Itzhak Levanon strongly criticized the appointment stating that Falk had written in an article that it was not "an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with the criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity," arguing that "someone who had publicly and repeatedly stated such views could not possibly be considered independent, impartial or objective". According to The Jewish Daily Forward Falk said: "Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not ." Levanon further stated, "He has taken part in a UN fact - finding mission which determined that suicide bombings were a valid method of' struggle' . He has disturbingly charged Israel with' genocidal tendencies,' and accused it of trying to achieve security through' state terrorism' . Someone who has publicly and repeatedly stated such views cannot possibly be considered independent, impartial or objective ." The Israeli government announced it would deny Falk a visa to Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, at least until the September 2008 meeting of the Human Rights Council . </P> <P> UN permanent ambassador Itzhak Levanon (Israel) said "that as the list of candidates for Special procedures mandate holders was put forward today, (he) was overwhelmed at the profound sense of lost opportunity . The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories was hopelessly unbalanced . This mandate was redundant at best and malicious at worst . It was impossible to believe that out of a list of 184 potential candidates, the eminently wise members of the Consultative Group honestly had made the best possible choice for this post ." </P>

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