Posted by Tina
Update:
** Barack Obama just added double-dealing to his foreign policy repertoire. On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish leaders to believe that the president had decided to boycott the United Nation’s “anti-racism” conference known as Durban II. At the same time, however, human rights organizations were being led to believe that the administration was not pulling out and was looking for a way to “re-engage.” Forbes **
Well it was fun while it lasted…Obama remains the man for all reasons. (original story below)
** President Obama is pulling out of Durban II, the United Nations “anti-racism” conference that was hijacked long ago by freedom-hating, anti-Israel, anti-American interests. It’s the right call, even if it was long in coming. *** The infamous first Durban conference in 2001 took every opportunity to label all criticism of Islam a crime and to condemn one country, Israel, over and again. The statements and open anti-Semitism prompted then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to withdraw America’s delegation. *** …senior officials say the U.S. will not participate unless the event magically changes course. The draft agenda was described as “unsalvageable.” *** Indeed it is. The U.S. must lend no more credibility to this looming platform for anti-Semitism. **
Back ground on Durban:
Destination: Durban II – Tis the season to bankroll hatred of Israel and America, by Claudia Rosett NRO
** At the United Nations, tis the season to bankroll hatred of Israel and America via pricey preparations for a 2009 gathering dubbed the Durban Review Conference, or Durban II. Right now, plans have advanced from general talk of funding this jamboree out of the U.N. regular budget, and have homed in on a figure of $6.8 million which the U.N. budget committee is poised to approve. Unless Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes it her business to somehow block the money and fast this means that Americans, as top contributors to the U.N. budget, can look forward not only to being vilified at Durban II along with our democratic ally, Israel, but also to picking up the biggest share of the tab for this next landmark U.N. exercise in bigotry. *** Durban II is of course being planned as the follow-up to the U.N.s notorious 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa. Convened under the pretext of fighting racism, that conclave erupted into a frenzy of malice toward America, and even more specifically, Israel. Colin Powell, then secretary of State, had the integrity to withdraw the U.S. delegation, and publicly tell the U.N. organizers: You do not combat racism by conferences that produce declarations containing hateful language, some of which is a throwback to the days of Zionism equals racism; or supports the idea that we have made too much of the Holocaust; or suggests that apartheid exists in Israel; or that singles out only one country in the world Israel for censure and abuse. **