A Comment About

Durban II and Obama’s Foreign Policy Mantra

March 13, 2009 - 12:35 am - by Anne Bayefsky
Ken Besig
2009-03-13 06:04:00

Of course it is much too early to say with certainty just where these events are leading us, but as more time passes I think it will become crystal clear that most of the International Community, including a large portion of the new American government and Obama himself, is adopting an eliminationist attitude towards Israel.
Not too long ago, that International Community believed that they could impose sanctions, express exaggerated and entirely unjust condemnations, organize conferences and demonstrations, and use the International Court of Justice to force Israel to accept the fact that she was an international criminal and thus reform herself. This of course would include bowing to every Arab and Palestinian demand no matter how ridiculous or dangerous to Israel, up to and including flooding Israel with millions of so called Palestinian refugees and quickly bringing an end to the Jewish State. Thus far Israel has for some strange reason refused this fair offer to commit national suicide and continues to demand that she be allowed to exist in peace and security like every other nation in the world.
Well, the UN and the International Community have just about had enough of Israeli intransigence and have just about concluded that the world would be better off without the Jewish State. The demonstrators against Israel now publicly call for the destruction of Israel as well as the genocide of the Jewish People, and very few world leaders protest these utterly abominable expressions of hatred towards Jews.
Indeed, Barack Obama with the help of his Jewish Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, actually nominated a fellow named Charles Freeman, an unabashed anti Semite in the financial pocket of the Saudi Arabians, to an important security post knowing full well the animosity of Freeman towards Israel and the Jews. I could name others just as antagonistic towards Israel, like Samantha Powers, that Obama has come to rely on for his Israel policies.
This is the real and growing problem, not Durban, the Europeans, or even the UN, the problem now is that there is an American President, Barack Obama, who believes that he must diminish Jewish and Israeli influence over American government Middle East policy, in the sense that doing away with Israel would solve a pretty good portion of the world’s problems.