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The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel
The Obama administration's decision to join the planning of the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism" conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban II delegation claimed the United States had worked actively to oppose efforts ...
Jeffrey Goldberg's gasping, dying smear tactics - Glenn Greenwald
Jeffrey Goldberg's gasping, dying smear tactics - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com — (updated below - Update II) The Atlantic 's Jeffrey Goldberg -- in a paragraph he entitles "Where... the Left and Right Always Seem to Agree" -- writes (emphasis added): Joseph Epstein's excellent essay in The Wall Street Journal about I.J. Singer's The ... (more) Jeffrey Goldberg's gasping, dying smear tactics - Glenn ...
American Thinker Blog: Meet the Anti-Israeli future head of our NIC
americanthinker.com — Paper: British Muslims aiding Taliban | Blog Home Page | The trend is the GOP's friend February... 21, 2009 Meet the Anti-Israeli future head of our NIC Ed Lasky At a conference The Role of Hamas sponsored by the Council of National Interest, Chas ... (more) American Thinker Blog: Meet the Anti-Israeli future head ...
The Israel of the Three Likudniks (Prospects for Peace)
prospectsforpeace.com — The elections were a clarifying moment for Israel and the Palestinians, but what about the Obama administration?... This piece also appears on Foreign Policy . With the final results now in, the horse trading over forming a new government in Israel is ... (more) The Israel of the Three Likudniks (Prospects for Peace)
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Obama sacrifices Israel - and tries to cover it up
Israel Matzav — ... denial was worked into the proceedings and while 'Islamophobia' has been enshrined as the number one concern of the world's chattering classes. Why did the Americans go to Geneva? It should be clear by now that they went there because Barack Hussein Obama has decided to try to undo sixty years of relations between the United States and Israel. Just as many of us predicted last year during the election campaign and just as he promised the late Edward Said (pictured with Obama above). This was written by Anne Bayefsky of UN Watch, who has been watching the Americans in action ...

The Obama administration at Durban
Betsy's Page — Before the elections many Israelis feared that Obama would be much less supportive of Israel than Bush had been. One month into his administration, it's clear that those fears were justified. Anne Bayefsky demonstrates that, despite self-promoting State Department press releases, the American representatives at Durban sat silent while anti-Israeli provisions were slipped into the final document. The reality, however, was nothing of the sort. Instead, Obama's Durban II team slipped easily into the U.N.'s anti-Israel and anti-Jewish environs, taking the approach that "fitting ...

The Obama Middle East Policy: Double-Cross Israel And “Stimulate” Hamas
Pat Dollard | Young AmericansForbes: The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel by Anne Bayefsky The cover-up on Durban II’s anti-Semitic agenda. The Obama administration’s decision to join the planning of the U.N.’s Durban II “anti-racism” conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban II delegation claimed the United States had worked actively to oppose efforts to brand Israel as racist in the committee drafting a Durban II declaration. The ...

ANNE BAYEFSKY: The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel….
Instapundit — ANNE BAYEFSKY: The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel.

Anne Bayefsky
Sister ToldjahIs the Obama administration throwing Israel under the bus?

WE ARE ALL PSYCHOTIC NOW
Dr. Sanity — ... [used to] hate us. The UN always seemed to be pissed off at America; as were almost all those peace-loving, terror-sponsoring states in the Middle East and around the world! And here we are finally able to get our credibility back with the regimes in Iran and Syria! What could be more important than that? We are even taking part in international anti-semitic hatefests again! Who knew that all we had to do to regain credibility with the totalitarian regimes of the Middle East was to sacrifice a key democratic ally in the region! ...

Our President Isn’t A Very Quick Study, Israel Finds
The Sundries ShackThe unwillingness of the State Department to defend freedom against barbarism is troublesome, but not really a surprise. The U.S. administration attended four full days of negotiation. During that time they witnessed the following: the failure to adopt a proposal to act against Holocaust denial, a new proposal to single out Israel, which will now be included in the draft without brackets, broad objections to anything having to do with sexual orientation, vigorous refusal by many states to back down on references to “Islamophobia” (the general allegation of a racist Western ...

Obama’s Durban “dialogue”
neo-neocon — Sure, throw Israel under the bus. It’s getting a bit crowded there.

The Obama Administration and Durban II
Little Green Footballs — ... Anyone who didn’t see this coming was not paying attention during the election to Barack Obama’s numerous ties to Palestinian activists and radical anti-Israel academics: The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel. ...

Yep, I miss Bush
The Anchoress — ... a ruinous policy. You believe that, right? Of course you do. Up is down. War is Peace. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Such disorientation. Everything “unacceptable” about the last 8 years is now “acceptable.” Except, of course, the “wiser countries” led by tyrants and despots are our new friends, and our old friends are either being sacrificed or left to precede us to implosion. Oh, and human rights - an issue ...

Obama admin shafts Israel at prep meeting for Durban II
Flopping Aces — ... Anne Bayefsky is again atop the reality… this time in her yesterday’s column appearing in Forbes, The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel: The cover up on Durban II’s anti-Semitic agenda…. where she calls the chit chat about giving Israel a voice in the proceedings “clearly a planned public relations exercise”. ...

Obama sacrifices Israel
Jihad Watch — ... More on how Obama is abandoning the country that stands in the front line of the West's defense against the global jihad. "The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel," by Anne Bayefsky in Forbes, February 22 (thanks to Bob): ...

Is “Being Liked” the Goal Of Obama’s Foreign Policy?
GayPatriot — ... As the United Nations plans its Durban II “anti-racism” conference, Administration officials would rather play go along get along than stand up to a world body eager to single out Israel for racism while ignoring real racial discrimination in other nations.  As Anne Bayefsky put it, “Obama’s Durban II team slipped easily into the U.N.’s anti-Israel and anti-Jewish environs, taking the approach that ‘fitting in’ was best accomplished by staying silent.“  (Just read the whole thing.) ...

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