Obama Naïveté at the U.N.

NRO ^ | February 16, 2009 | Anne Bayefsky]

[yoe]

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 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.

The State Department announcement claims that participating in Durban II preparations still leaves open the possibility of refusing to attend the April conference itself. The claim is completely disingenuous. They know full well that preparations are planned on and off-the-record from now until April and will likely continue until the final moments of the actual meeting — justifying ongoing participation under the guise of “still can’t tell yet.” Like diplomatic bees to honey. It is the decision to attend at all which represents a huge shift in American principles and priorities. For the past seven and a half years, the United States has boycotted Durban follow-up activities and voted against every Durban-related U.N. resolution.

Moreover, the very objective of Durban II is "to foster the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action." This is non-negotiable and cannot be changed by U.S. participation, period. In addition, all U.N. states attending these preparatory sessions have already agreed to “reaffirm the Durban Declaration”. Since the U.S. walked out of Durban I in disgust (along with Israel) and rejected the Durban I Declaration, joining negotiations now means agreeing to its provisions for the first time.

But the Durban Declaration asserts that Palestinians are victims of Israeli racism. This is also the only country-specific accusation in a document purporting to address international racism and xenophobia. Regardless of the quantity of new vitriol in Durban II's final product, therefore, participation legitimizes the mantra of Israeli racism. 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’.

The position is not only repugnant, but naïve. Evidently, American officials believe that an African-American president can climb into a U.N. anti-racism ring, throw his weight around, and the 56 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference will roll over and play dead. Or hard-liners like Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand, and developing countries like South Africa, will jump on a U.S.-led bandwagon.

It will be painful to watch the administration forced to enroll in U.N. 101. At Durban I, the European Union did a numbers count and recognized that Western democracies were bound for the back of the bus. So they proceeded to permit condemnation of racist Israel in exchange for omitting any inconvenient reference to financial compensation for slavery (and adding a minor sop to the existence of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism). No matter that murdering Jews in Israel in the here and now — justified as an alleged struggle against racism — is a modern form of anti-Semitism.

Not only will Obama be buffeted by EU members attempting to save themselves and their pocketbooks, the developing world will be overjoyed at the prospect of debilitating Gulliver. The fact that he is prepared to lie down of his own volition and hand them the strings, just makes the occasion merrier. Obama will also come to know the overarching theme of all U.N. meetings, namely, that saving the credibility of the institution itself is the number one priority. This means that having mounted a global conference, any outcome or deal is better than nothing. Such a mindset leaves the extremists in the driver’s seat. They will eat multilateralists-in-need-of-a-warm-group-hug for breakfast.

True, State department officials are masters at claiming victory with a straight face regardless of the drivel they draft. The 250-paragraph draft of the Durban II “outcome document” now before Obama, includes provisions which: say Israel’s right of return (Jewish self-determination) is racist, accuse Israel of apartheid and crimes against humanity, seek major curbs on freedom of expression, invent global Islamophobia, and allege anti-terrorism tactics are a racist plot. The anti-democratic forces have thrown in the kitchen sink, knowing full well that Westerners will feign a win if even half of it is removed — though the reality will be a giant step backwards for rights and freedoms.

In truth, this Obama trip to the U.N. represents an abandonment of Israel. All his campaign promises to the contrary, sacrificing Israel for the sake of currying favor with others — demagogues included — is clearly at the top of the new president’s agenda. Israel asked Obama not to attend. Canada also pulled out of Durban II and expected American support. Instead, today’s American foreign policy leaves America’s closest ally and its biggest trading partner out in the cold.

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.

— Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and at Touro College, New York.

[yoe]

Obama, in spite of all his talk, is it seems anti-Semitic after all. Yet he us all for this (The unprecedented attack on democracy and capitalism)....the Obama way or the highway........

[goodnesswins]

This is NOT "Naïveté"......Everything Bambi does is DELIBERATE.....WAKE UP everyone! WAKE UP

[WayneS]

This support of “Durban II” is INTENTIONAL and is not a result of naivete.

The people who give Obama his marching orders are in NO WAY naive about anything.

[BenLurkin]

Jeremiah Wright: Israel “is a dirty word”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/03/jeremiah-wright.html

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Well, Israelis should get mad at fellow Jews in the U.S. who came out and supported “The One” in large numbers. I’ll never understand why any Jew would support any dumbocrat. They all subscribe to the Jimmy Carter school of foreign policy.

[yoe]

“Naïveté”, Ann’s word not mine. Obama is a Chicago politician and they ain’t Naive about anything.

[BenLurkin]

Barack Obama’s Mentor, Jeremiah Wright - Anti Israel Sermon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Unfortunately, with this administration Israel is on its own. Should have taken action against Iran last year.

[353FMG]

Everybody who paid any attention to Obama before the elections should’ve known that this was coming. When he promised to bring change, no one asked him what he had in mind.

[bobsatwork]

Memo to the UN: please, please, please find that the USA is so intolerant and racist that you can no longer keep the UN HQ here in good conscience.

[sauropod]

Unbelievable.

[nmh]

He really believes in what he is doing.

[nmh]

Unfortunately, with this administration Israel is on its own. Should have taken action against Iran last year.

OR before the election so we’d have McPain.

As sorry as McPain is, he’d be better than this little devil.

[jackv]

I think it is time to release those LATimes tapes of bo and his pale friends that they refused to release before the election.

You know, the one where the pale children were dancing on stage stomping on the US and Israeli flags with their swords.

Bo and friends having a grand time. It is no longer a secret how he really feels about this country.

[The Electrician]

Evidently, American officials believe that an African-American president can climb into a U.N. anti-racism ring, throw his weight around, and the 56 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference will roll over and play dead.

Uh, no. The Obama regime is either in league with the 56 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, or its goals are so similar as to be indistinguishable. There's no reason for them to roll over and play dead when Obama is actively supporting them...

[Iron Munro]

[Cicero]

Nothing naive about it.

I understand that the website of his United Church of Christ church in Chicago has now been cleaned up and sanitized, and that Google has destroyed all the cached records. But before that was done, there were regular postings from vile antisemitic organizations at the web site. And much admiration for Louis Farrakhan. Most significant, it was clear that certain vile racist principles were taught there on a regular basis.

These beliefs, basic principles of the faith taught by Obama’s pastor, were: That Jesus and God the Father are black. That the Romans were evil demons. That Jews were evil demons. That only blacks are good. Jesus came to save blacks.

Obama’s pastor was originally a Black Muslim, and these beliefs are related to Black Muslim delusions—basically, that Muslims are the good guys and Christians are the enslavers of black people. The ignorance of history involved in such teachings is amazing, since no one has been more involved with slavery, including enslavement of blacks, than the Muslim Arabs. But such are their beliefs.

They are not far from the Muslim belief that Jews are apes and pigs who should be exterminated. (An alternative teahing is that Jews are apes and Christians are pigs.) What Barry’s church taught—and presumably still teaches when the press isn’t looking—is that Jews are evil followers of Satan, the killers of the Black Christ, who must be exterminated.

[mojitojoe]

I wonder it the DUmmies have now figured out what the change they voted for really means. YES WE CAN, HOPE, CHANGE, bow down to your new dictator and say good bye to you Republic and country you stupid a*sh*les. Next time, if there is one, ask exactly what “change” and “yes we can” do what? Vague words and slogans like that are empty words and slogans designed to act like opium on idiots and it worked.

[mojitojoe]

He really believes in what he is doing.

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Guarantee you that he would not release his medical records due to psychiatric problems. This big eared idiot is obsessed, and I do mean OBSESSED with race. I think he is has a lot of anger and identity issues. I also think Frank Marshall molded this hatred he as for the white race.

[mojitojoe]

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/blog/tuccbulletin_feb25.pdf

http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2007/03/barak-obamas-leftist-afrocentric-church.html

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0307/0307obamination.htm

http://maxine-log.blogspot.com/2008/01/ideating-barack-obama-trinity-united.html

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml

http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/tag/trinity-united-church-of-christ/