[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Quote of the Day by Interesting Times

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The third United Nations "World Conference Against Racism" was intended to counterbalance the G-8 summits so the "forgotten peoples" of the world could make their voices heard amid the clamor of globalization and international capitalism.

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After a week of American/Israel bashing at the UN, the conference ended ~ two days before 9-11.
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[DonQ]

It is my firm belief that the Durban Conference resolutions were inextricably connected with the Sept. 11th attacks. The resolutions were known, especially in the Arab world, months in advance of the Durban Conference itself, to be ready for an automatic stamp of approval at the conference. The resolutions absolutely legitimized every sort of terrorism and atrocity against Israel - and against it ally, the United States - by calling that terrorism "legitimate armed struggle against the illegal occupation". The Sept. 11th plotters, with feelers throughout the Arab world, must have been aware of this, and therefore scheduled their attack to come only a few days after the end of the conference, by which time even weekly publications would have trumpeted throughout the (third) world that any sort of "armed struggle" against the US or Israel had UN approval.