Why the U.S. Must Leave and Condemn Durban II
The answer is: total and complete silence. In a devastating article appearing in Forbes, Hudson Institute Fellow Anne Bayefsky presents the shocking details of how the Obama Administration is sacrificing Israel on the altar of political expediency. State Department officials have claimed that they have been working actively to oppose efforts to brand Israel as racist and worse at Durban II. On February 20, the State Department claimed that they had “strong reservations” about the direction of the conference, and that they were doing all possible to work against those seeking to single out Israel alone as racist.
As Bayfesky demonstrates, the truth is quite the opposite. US representatives said nothing about new proposals for a new anti-Israel manifesto that true to form, mentions no other nation specifically as being guilty of racist practices. State claims they participate to try and change Durban II’s direction. That claim is nothing but spin.
As the Palestinian delegates introduce new paragraphs that seek to change demands for “concrete measures” against Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands to making such steps “international legal obligations” rather than simply “advisory” opinions, the US team at the meetings did not object at all, and remained silent. To not say a thing is, according to the conference rules, irreversible. As Bayafesky explains: “the diplomatic rule of thumb is that paragraphs that have not been flagged as controversial cannot be reopened for discussion, as negotiations finalize an end product.”
Even more stunning is that when Iran objected to a European Union proposal to condemn Holocaust denial, the United States said not one word when the chair asked if any delegation wanted to comment on the EU proposal. The United States delegates did not respond, even though previously when prompted on other matters, the U.S. participants announced that their government could not accept proposals.
If the United States is serious that they seek to change the conference direction, this is not the way to do it. It seems that their main concern, perhaps motivated by a new desire to let the Iranians know that they are willing and anxious to negotiate and talk with them, is to let Iran’s most offensive stands be subject to no American opposition.
The most recent American press release from the State Department says that the US has not made up its mind whether or not to participate in Durban II, and will decide after evaluating the work done in the past week. They claim that their current efforts are simply part of a “fact-finding” mission.
I don’t know what facts the US delegates are looking for. They met in the planning sessions for four days. They found that Holocaust denial would not be condemned; that Israel alone would be singled out for racism; that Western states would be accused of Islamophobia, and that free speech would be criticized—such as that which led to the attacks on Geert Wilders for his criticisms of radical Islam.
There is only one thing that is clear. The United States is getting ready to participate in Durban II, and its current stance is already giving the forthcoming meeting legitimacy. The White House should be flooded with demands that our country immediately announce that it will not attend, and say that Durban II, like the original meeting, has no legitimacy or moral standing. If it does not, I’m afraid that Bayefsky’s conclusion, that “the foreign policy of engagement amounts to a new willingness to sacrifice Israel and an indeterminate number of American values for the sake of a warm welcome from the enemies of freedom,” is all too true.
“So the question emerges: What is the United States going to do?”
Nope, that’s not the right question. We need to be a bit more specific: What is Barack Obama going to do? Moreover, what is Marty Peretz and others comprising the center-left going to do if the president essentially remains silent? Will they be willing to abandon him?
Scary
But, then – I’ve been scared for a while. I’ve been sacred that the nation elected Obama – and loves him so much…
I was the most scared after I learned how much he had campaigned for Odinga in Kenya…Actions speak louder thong words…and Odinga had signed contracts with Islam extremists to install Sharia law in the Muslim areas if he got elected.
May it was not logical – but that was the last straw for me…Since then I’ve been looking for a glimmer of hope that maybe he’s not so bad…but there are the little tell tale signs that he is still siding with Islam – and in this case – with radical Islam.
Yikes.
We posted about this same thing earlier: http://smokebreak.blogshevik.com/2009/02/24/sleeping-with-the-enemy/
Our conclusions are slightly different, though.
But I am absolutely furious.
Is Marty Peretz saying that Barack Obama is “nuts?” Well, see for yourself:
“$900 Million From U.S. To Gaza: Is The Administration Nuts?”
http://tinyurl.com/d569xr
Peretz never mentions Obama by name. Still, he is asking if the present administration is nuts. And gosh darn it, I think Obama runs this particular administration. Am I right?
i getting carrued away
$900 Million From U.S. To Gaza: Is The Administration Nuts?
Please ignore the last two lines of the previous post. They are editing errors.
obama seems to be the racist-in-chief, so there’s no reason I can identify that he would oppose this conference.
Durban II will give Marxists another chance to vent their anti-white , anti-Western, and anti-liberal hatred, all while ignoring the cuses of the poor, starving, and oppressed. I vividly recall Durban I on BBC radio. When Mugabe, the tyrant thug of black Africa, came before the crowd to speak, he railed with indignation against his critics as part of a Western, racist conspiracy. The crowd roared with approval. And, to my then naive surprise, the BBC correspondent spoke approvingly of Mugabe’s remarks. Durban II will simply be a repeat for the international league of race-hustling poverty pimps to show their stuff. And for the Western media, ridden with the malignant narcissism of white guilt, will enable this moral sewage all they can.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice…
For the life of me, I will never understand how any American thinks it is in America’s best interest to a part of anything U.N. What do we possibly get out of footing 22% of the bill, if memory serves?
How many miserable failures, anti-Israeli carnivals, and outright contemptible lies do we have to witness as citizens before we say, “what the hell are we doing even being affiliated with this mess?”
I never hear mention any one of our gutless leaders even broach the subject anymore.
Why would Barry condemn racism. He another self-loathing liberal isn`t he?
He hates whitey…..
Bank rolling those who want to kill us, Obama is investing $1,000,000,000 to rearm Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Durban II justifies his actions.
America should have been the first to burn their invitation to this disgusting Marxist / Islamo hatefest.
Considering that our more liberal allies refused to attend should now make it a no brainer for the U.S. to decline.
I hope Obama doesn’t make the wrong decision and shame America.
There are 3 lies in the public domain which will be repeated until everybody believes them.
1. “Health care” is not about health. It is about insurance which enables continuous violations of health practices.
2.”Gay people” are not called that because they are always happy about their life choices.
3. “Race and racism” is about the human species and which part of that species that can interbreed or transfer organs and blood. There is no African race,white race, Jewish race, superior race: there is a human race. When you get the hides off of them, they are pretty much all the same. If we introduce alien humanoids then maybe we wouldn’t be lieing so much about race.
Any conversation which begins with a fundamental non-truth is not going to easily reach a logical or practical conclusion. Cowardice indeed goes to he who perpetuates those lies.
I’m scared of people like Mary K who believe everything some homosexual pastor tells her. These are the types that believe and will believe the lies of the antichrist, the bible does say that many who believe in God will fall to the lies of the antichrist, and people like Mary K are one of them. They attempt to perverse the view of a religion by attributing the actions of a few to the meaning of that religion. People like Mary K support Israel 100% and fear Sharia Law which is very very similar to what orthodox Jews want to practice but cannot because of the secular government and it’s “laws” that don’t pertain to the first testament, so don’t bulk when people get stoned because it’s in the bible. I’m glad my WHITE pastor condemns people like Mary K and prays for them because he would be very upset if christianity was seen as nothing more then perverts using God to lure children and fill their wants of money and women. And for Mary K there are lots of pastors, rev’s, and many men of God in from and of the bible belt that have been in the news for the wrong reasons.
Wow has this thread taken a bizarre turn.
I am everyday more and more mystified by the seeming blindness of much of the world to the relentless pounding on the small State of Israel by the large Islamic World.
Living in a country that takes a pretty good hit for everything we do, I am afraid that if it were a contest Israel would be the clear winner hands down.
That they are still around is a testimony to their stubbornness?, courage?, faith?, fortitude?, strength? Amazing.
Cristhian,
First, did you spell your name wrong? Second, who the hell do you thnk you are? You know very little about Mary K from what was written, so why did you make up a whole baseless diatribe about what you imagine her to be? This was just tired.
@Westgard”Considering that our more liberal allies refused to attend should now make it a no brainer for the U.S. to decline”
This assumes of course that they are our MORE liberal allies now days.
I was waiting to give the O’ster the benefit of the doubt but out of ‘Most Liberal Senator’, ‘Cynical Manipulator of the Left’, and ‘True American Statesman’, I’m gonna have to just axe the latter and pencil in ‘Clueless’.
We are truly post racial when an African American President becomes more recognized for his resemblance to Jimmy Carter than Frederick Douglas.
I only pray that after 4 years of the foreign policy disaster the Obama administration will surely be, especially in matters regarding the Middle East in general and Israel’s security in particular, that American Jews will end their slavish blind allegiance to Democrats and their leftist vision.
American pandering and seeking “balance” in the Clinton years is what emboldened Islamists to attack us on 9/11. With Obama we are repeating history and we are doomed to suffer the consequences – again. Einstein defined an idiot as one who does the same thing over and over and expects different results. We are idiots – “useful idiots”.
Welcome back. It’s Sept. 10th again.
As an Israeli, I am grateful for articles like this, which give me the sense that somewhere out there, there are SOME people who realize the danger my country is facing, ever more alone.
Unfortunately, I imagine that Ron’s words are mostly bouncing back and forth in the pro-Israel echo chamber.
I recently looked through the comments left in a Washington Post article by Bill Kristol about Obama not seeing himself as a “war president…” The responses were outrageous in their unabashed anti-Semitism.
Let’s stand together, people.
Bubba’s a year from now there will be American troops effecting a Regime change in Israel.
American Jews just sold their Israeli brethren down the road to Dachau.
I guess it was pretty racist of the United States and other countries to place similar bans on apartheid South Africa as well!
Dachau
No, and we have a chance to never allow that again and only freedom of the press and an honest press without an agenda and willful blindness will guarantee that. I believe that is one of the reasons why the press is under attack right now, and those who prefer to use the media to run the world and slant our views the way they want, or think it should be, are pushing hard.
That is why I think the INTERNET and radio are such a strong tool to find alternative news and opinion. The administration is moving toward more control over the radio, and the INTERNET will be next if the liberal websites start losing their audience. I believe they might be micromanagers wanting their fingers in everything.
That is my paranoia for today…so far.
Many Jews in US are against Israel. In Israel, leftist like in the US are also against Israel.
Spielberg, Alinsky, and others are/were Jews.
In Israel, they should prepare for an unfriendly US administration under Obama. Hussein disguised this well while campaigning, now, little by little, with envoy Ross, Arab-descendant Mitchell, and others, the Arabs will win.
Odinga’s friend, our beloved president, cocaine-abuser-in-chief, ACORNist community organizer, will bring peace to the middle east when Jews pack up again and leave the neighborhood.
@ 18. Barry 0351
You wrote:
“American Jews just sold their Israeli brethren down the road to Dachau.”
If you know the modern History of the Jews then it will not surprise you that the Bolshevik Jews – adherents of Marx-Lenin-Stalin’s party – were stalwart supporters of the forced deportation of the non-Communist Jews during the Russian Revolution. They prohibited the practicing of Judaism and deported the religious ones to Birobidjan in Siberia.
From Google:
“Eventually, the Soviets created the Birobidjjan autonomous oblast in a desolate part of Eastern Russia as a rival “Jewish Homeland” and promoted a Russified form of Yiddish which had carefully eliminated all traces of Hebrew.
Ever since that time Liberal (Marxist) Jews are in the forefront of radical voices propagating the destruction of Israel. Some openly, others by oblique, concealed way.
“The creation of Israel was a mistake” so said Tony Judt and Chomsky and echoed most of the Leftist (78%) American Jewish Organizations.
If you checked the backgrounds of prominent Leftist American Jews, almost without exception, their roots go back to Russia-E. Europe to the birth of Communism.
They are called as “Red diaper babies”
ANYONE who believed that an Obama presidency would not find this anti-semitic spectacle unacceptable was way too busy imbibing hope and change as our new national policy .