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Obama Naïveté at the U.N.
In a major foreign-policy decision taken over the weekend, President Obama has decided to legitimize the United Nations's "anti-racism" forum known as Durban II. State Department officials announced in a press release buried on Saturday, that starting today the United States will attend for the ...
A Foreign Policy of Obsequiousness
corner.nationalreview.com — Yesterday in Geneva, President Obama unveiled the new look of America's foreign policy -- obsequiousness. It was... Day One for his emissaries to the U.N. planning committee of the Durban II conference. This is the racist "anti-racism" bash to be held in ... (more) A Foreign Policy of Obsequiousness
Durban II Planning
corner.nationalreview.com — President Obama had been warned to avoid having anything to do with the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism"... conference this year. The U.S. walked out of the 2001 Durban I conference because it proved to be a U.N.-sanctioned platform for anti-Semitism. Its ... (more) Durban II Planning
'Lieberman weakens Israel's cause in US' | International | Jerusalem Post
'Lieberman weakens Israel's cause in US' | International | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com — Former administration officials and American Jewish leaders are warning that the rise of Avigdor Lieberman could hurt... Israel's image in the US, particularly if he is given a top portfolio or his positions on Israeli Arabs become government policy. ... (more) 'Lieberman weakens Israel's cause in US' | International ...
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Obama and Hillary stumble on the World Stage
This Blog Is Full Of Crap — ... in Geneva, is the progenitor of the anti-semitic hatefest that took place in South Africa in early September 2001. The searing images of the demonization of America and Jews on the U.N.'s global stage, and the terrorism in New York 72 hours later, should have made joining this revived forum for U.N.-driven hate inconceivable. But President Obama seems intent on learning the lessons of history - and the relationship between hatemongering and violence - the hard way. Read the rest, go to http://www.EYEontheUN.org/durban to subscribe to the newsletter, and ...

Zionism=Racism 2, Sponsored by Barack Obama
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Anne Bayefsky has a good synopsis of where things now stand with Durban II, the United Nations Conference also known as "Zionism is Racism." The Obama administration has agreed to attend in a major reversal from its predecessor and despite intense lobbying from Israel. According to officials at the State Department, U.S. participation in these planning meetings does not necessarily indicate participation in the final conference, or that the United States will sign on to whatever document is ultimately produced, but as Bayefsky points out, there is no evidence of ...

Remainders: Signing
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama's sending more troops to Afghanistan. House Republicans wanted for Obama's autograph. A colorful alleged Texas fraudster was a big Dem donor. Bipartisanship has always (mostly) been a figment. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff gets antsy. Recovery.gov is up and running. NRO says Obama is legitimizing Durban II. And Karl Rove blames the economic crisis on Obama.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/17/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... Obama Naïveté at the U.N. by Anne Bayefsky In a major foreign-policy decision taken over the weekend, President Obama has decided to legitimize the United Nations’s “anti-racism” forum known as Durban II. State Department officials announced in a press release buried on Saturday, that starting today the United States will attend for the first time the preparatory meetings of this controversial U.N. conference. The “Durban Review Conference,” scheduled for April in Geneva, is the progenitor of the ...

Obama admin shafts Israel at prep meeting for Durban II
Flopping Aces — To use National Review’s Anne Bayefsky’s words: The speed at which President Obama is selling off American assets is breathtaking. The speed at which he is selling them out is even faster. [Emphasis added] While America focused on “kitchen table” and “back yard” issues, Obama quietly not only broke faith with a US ally, he also shattered his campaign promises of “talk”, engaging Middle East antagonists. His mouthpieces shafted Israel not once, but twice…. first ...

Ira Forman: Obama's Durban II Critics: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... One commentator at National Review online stated, "What is new is that the new president of the United States doesn't care about the U.N.'s reincarnation of 'Zionism is racism.'" At the rabidly right-wing American Thinker web site, we were told, ...

Durban II: Stop Reading Between the Lines
NJDC Blog — ... One commentator at National Review online stated, “What is new is that the new president of the United States doesn’t care about the U.N.‘s reincarnation of ‘Zionism is racism.’” At the rabidly right-wing American Thinker web site, we were told, ...

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