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Just a bit of trivia, but just days before Sept 11, 2001 there was a UN big race conference in Durban, South Africa which degenerated into an anti-Israeli, anti-US hatefest. It got so bad that Powell walked out:

SEPTEMBER 3, 2001 : (DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA : US PULLS OUT OF UN RACISM CONFERENCE) Israel and the U.S. have pulled out of the U.N. Conference Against Racism after compromise over condemning Israel had failed --- "U.S. pulls out of racism conference," CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/03/racism.conference/index.html

SEPTEMBER 8, 2001 : (DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA : UN RACISM CONFERENCE ENDS AFTER DAYS OF ANTI-US, ANTI-ISRAEL RHETORIC) --- "Racism conference ends," BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1530000/1530976.stm