Sunday, 1st March 2009
The forked US tongue on 'Durban 2'
11:27pm
On Friday afternoon, the Obama administration let it be known that it was now withdrawing from the planning process for the ‘Durban 2’ anti-Israel and anti-Jew hate-fest taking place under the aegis of the satirically-named UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next month, and wouldn’t take part in the conference itself. As I reported here and here, Obama had sent a delegation to Geneva to try to sanitise the draft Declaration being planned for the meeting, saying that if it failed it would withdraw. On Friday, after the draft text had got worse rather than better, it appeared that the US had indeed withdrawn from the planning process and was now boycotting the whole thing; certainly,Ha’aretz thought it had done so, various Jewish groups threw their hats in the air and Obamaphiles breathed a sigh...
Monday, 2 March 2009
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