Posted on 04/21/2009 10:50:38 PM PDT by PRePublic
Tuesday, April 21st 2009, 4:00 AM
Playing out at a United Nations conference in Geneva is a freak show even worse than we imagined when we urged President Obama to boycott.
Thank goodness the U.S. ultimately did join Canada, Israel and others in staying away from the Durban II "Conference Against Racism." And shame on those who did pull up a chair. They prove how easy it is to bamboozle some of America's allies.
The chief bamboozler on day one of the week-long confab was the Holocaust-denying, Israel-hating, atom-bomb-pursuing president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The world, he said, left "an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering" in order to "establish a totally racist government in occupied Palestine." Today, he said, Israel is a "racist perpetrator of genocide."
Adding insult to injury: Yesterday marked 120 years since Adolf Hitler's birth. And today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when the world recalls the suffering that Ahmadinejad sickeningly referred to as an excuse for mistreatment of Palestinians.
Britain, France, Finland, Spain and Denmark were right to stand up and walk out as the racist raged. But given the lessons from the infamous 2001 Durban conference, they should have known better than to show up at all.
Same for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who was forced after the rant to say, "I deplore the use of this platform by the Iranian president to accuse, divide and even incite."
What on Earth did he expect?
Obama, Hillary, and George Mitchell want Hitler to come back in power and carry on.
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