Bayefsky: U.S. is More Hostile to Israel than it Appears

Israel National News ^ | 10/28/10 | Elad Benari

[Nachum]

According to political writer Anne Bayefsky, the Obama administration’s treatment of Israel is not as hostile as it appears, but is, in fact, worse.

In an article which appeared last week on the Unity Coalition for Israel’s website, Bayefsky wrote that the U.S. State Department has adopted a practice of saying different things to different audiences. She brought as an example claims by the U.S. that recent speeches delivered the U.N. Human Rights Council were in Israel’s defense, when in fact the remarks American diplomats actually delivered were “strikingly different.”

While U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Eileen Donahoe, said during the Council’s last session in October that the Human Rights Council had “made historic progress…in advancing the rights of human rights defenders throughout the world,” Bayefsky said that Donahoe’s claim “turns on the virtue of legitimizing the demonization of Israel in favor of other people’s human rights.”

[MichaelP]

U.S. State Department has adopted a practice of saying different things to different audiences

Why not? The Clintons have been doing that for years!

Mike

[Buckeye McFrog]

Actually that would be textbook Obama, wouldn’t it?

Tell the Muslim world that you’re gonna get those danged jooooooos, but in reality turn around and do just the opposite.

Tell unemployed Ohioans that you are going to cancel NAFTA while slipping the Canadians a diplomatic note telling them to ignore you.

etc.

[SJackson]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

In an article which appeared last week on the Unity Coalition for Israel's website, Bayefsky wrote that the U.S. State Department has adopted a practice of saying different things to different audiences. She brought as an example claims by the U.S. that recent speeches delivered the U.N. Human Rights Council were in Israel's defense, when in fact the remarks American diplomats actually delivered were "strikingly different."