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Watchdog Group Demands Removal Of Libyan Human Rights Investigator By: Brian Teegarden | “AP/Foxnews.com U.N. Watch, an organization that monitors the world body, says Libyan envoy Najat Al-Hajjaji should be the ‘last person’ investigating human rights abuses, as Libyan jets drop bombs on rebel forces in her homeland. A watchdog group is asking the U.N. to immediately remove a Libyan envoy from her post as an investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries, saying that as a mouthpiece for a regime that’s “deploying hired guns to massacre its own people” it’s “outrageous” to have her in that position. But it’s...

Non-Arab and/or non-Muslims in the "Arab" worldOne key element missing from the discussion is the question of non-Arab and/or non-Muslims in the "Arab" world.  The Arab nationalists have succeeded in establishing some 23 non-democratic, ethnically (Arab) and religiously (Islam) defined nation-states in over 1 million square miles of territory, often at the expense of non-Arabs, such as the Kurds (Muslims, non-Arabs), Assyrians (Christians, non-Arabs), Copts (Christians, non-Arabs), southern Sudanese (Christian and pagan non-Arabs), Maronite Lebanese (Christian and mostly identified with their Phoenician ancestors) and Mizrahi Jews.  Arab nationalist ideology claims all this territory exclusively as "Arab" despite the legitimate claims...

Arab Imperialism And Arab Supremacism Posted: Apr 20th, 2009 Arab Imperialism And Arab SupremacismAuthor: C. Read Arab Imperialism is designed for an Arab state to run the world. Unlike others who have tried to take over the world in the past, there is no timetable. Arab Supremacism mandates that those who follow Islam are right and everyone who does not practice this religion is their enemy. Arab Supremacism is helped along by the quest for the oil in the Middle Eastern countries. Arab Imperialism got its start when the west began to be more dependent on their oil. Since the...

Lieberman is no racist By Yehuda Ben-Meir Last update - 11:01 26/04/2009 I did not vote for Avigdor Lieberman and never will. I do not agree with some of his political positions and do not accept his framing of certain issues. But I am appalled by the left's delegitimizing of Lieberman and anyone connected with him. I do not believe that Israel's Arab citizens must be required to declare their loyalty to the Jewish state. What must be demanded of them and of all Israeli citizens, whether Jewish, Druze or other, is unflinching loyalty to the State of Israel and...

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN'S PERSECUTION OPPRESSION OF MINORITIES - ISLAMIC APARTHEID In General, Christians, Baha'i, Kurds, Jews, Azeris, Baluchis, Ahwazi Arabs Again, religious persecution in IranFebruary 20, 2009Ethel C. FenigAs Thomas Lifson noted yesterday Iranian authorities destroyed a Sufi holy site, continuing their practice of pressuring and discriminating against religions that do not strictly follow the Shi'ite form of Islam.  But the Sufis are not the only religious minority suffering discrimination in Iran.   The 2500 year old Jewish community, which numbered over 80,000 thirty years ago at the time of the Khoemeni Revolution which overthrew the Shah, has dwindled to about...

Officially called the Durban Review Conference, Durban II wrapped up its week-long attack on the nation of Israel. In its last day the attendees were taken the the woodshed by UN Watch head Hillel Neuer and Eye on the UN's Anne Bayefsky. Neurer attacked the conference for ignoring the real problems of Racism in the world. After Neuer Bashed the conference for what it did not cover, Anne Bayefsky really smacked them around not for what they ignored, but for what they covered, pointing out the hypocrisy of allowing Iran's Ahmadinejad, the countries that stayed and even those who walked...

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have shot himself in the foot. Ahmadinejad gave a vitriolic anti-American and anti-Israeli speech at the "Durban II" anti-racism conference in Geneva April 20 as part of an effort to launch his re-election campaign with a big bang and to bolster the claim that he is the global standard-bearer of anti-Western movements. The speech was designed to shock and provoke, and it did that -- but it also highlighted the Islamic Republic's increasing diplomatic isolation. Ban Ki Moon, who briefly pulled off his earpiece so as not to hear the translation of Ahmadinejad's incendiary claims,...

What a world:: Racist Arabs & Islamic bigots call the victims of their racism - "racists"   Forget the fact that Israel is multi-racial for all colors from the whitest of white to the darkest of black, whereas Arab countries (including "Palestinian" authorities") asides from oppressing all non-Arab minorities, are almost entirely "judenrein", but in democratic Israel, an Arab can get the highest office!   But the breeziness of Arab racism not only fails to admit of it's racist war on Jews/Israel since the 1920's, but it brands Israel's defense FROM it as "racist". . ___________       Israelis aren't...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a blistering tirade against Israel on Monday at the supposedly “anti-racist” Durban II conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and dozens of national delegates from Europe walked out in disgust. The sheer number of people who refused to sit there and listen to him must be seen to be believed. His bad reception didn’t end there. Hundreds of protesters followed him as he delivered a press conference and shouted “Shame! Shame! Shame!” as they held up signs reminding all who could see them that “Iran Funds Hamas and Hezbollah.”

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinjed said Wednesday he had expected his US counterpart, Barack Obama, would have attended the UN racism conference in Geneva in order to prove his willingness to change American policy. 'The new US president, who claims to want change, should have come to Geneva and voiced his opposition to any form of racism,' Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Varamin, south-east of the capital Tehran. US President Obama said Tuesday Ahmadinejad's remarks against Israel at the UN racism conference were 'appalling and objectionable,' and damaging to the prospects of better relations with the United States....

Norway's Ambassador to Israel Jakken Biorn Lian vehemently denied on Tuesday reports that his country's foreign minister had applauded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech on Monday, which called for the eradication of Zionism. In a conversation with The Jerusalem Post, he confirmed that Norway had remained in the room during Ahmadinejad's address to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, even though 23 European Union countries had walked out. Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre drew sharp criticism from Israeli officials Tuesday for remaining while Ahmadinejad excoriated Israel. "Minister Støre chose to remain in...

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member-states at the Durban II gathering in Geneva is pushing for "a new world order" that would expand and impose "nondemocratic and illiberal values on the West," says the Danish editor who in 2005 commissioned and published a series of cartoons, one of which depicted the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that led to worldwide Muslim rioting.... Flemming Rose, editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's largest-circulation newspaper, is visiting Israel under the auspices of the Hebrew University's Shasha Center for Strategic Studies, headed by former Mossad director Efraim Halevy. He's here to...

On the sidelines of the Durban II conference in Geneva on Tuesday, a member of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's entourage accosted Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and began screaming "Zio-Nazi" at the Holocaust survivor. [VIDEO AT THE BREAK] The incident was caught on tape by Simon Wiesenthal Center's Latin American Representative Sergio Widder. Ahmadinejad, who attended the international conference against racism along with a 180 Iranian representatives, was the only head of state to accept the United Nations' invitation to speak before the delegates.... The United Nations said on Tuesday that Ahmadinejad dropped a reference to Holocaust denial from...

Happy birthday, Adolf: Anti-Israel UN conference would have made Hitler proud Tuesday, April 21st 2009, 4:00 AM Today's Other Editorials Articles Picking the winnersToo much information 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...

If Arabs Can Live in Jewish Neighborhoods, Why Can't Jews Live in Arab Neighborhoods? In other words, if Palestinianism has any validity, then so does Zionism - even moreso, since Jews are indigenous to Israel and her territories. Via DailyAlert.org, h/t Makor Rishon-Hebrew, Apr 8, 2009: During Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s recent visit to the U.S., Maariv headlined a story: “Barkat Enables Jewish Building in Eastern Jerusalem.” After hearing about it, the mayor didn’t quite understand the controversy. From his perspective, Jews are permitted to live in any section of Jerusalem. “The Israel Supreme Court has ruled that in the...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime," sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference and protests from others. In a rambling speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad on Monday pointed the finger at the U.S., Europe and Israel and said they were destabilizing the entire world. Some European diplomats immediately walked out of the room when Mr. Ahmadinejad said Israel was created on the "pretext of Jewish suffering" from World War II. A wigged protester shouting "Racist! racist!" threw a soft red object at Mr. Ahmadinejad, hitting the podium and interrupting...

British delegates joined a dramatic diplomatic walkout today when President Ahmadinejad of Iran told a major UN conference against racism that the state of Israel had been founded "on the pretext of Jewish suffering" during the Second World War. Around 20 delegates, including envoys from the UK, France, Canada and Finland stood up and left the room at what was considered an anti-Semitic remark by the Iranian leader, who has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Nine Western countries including Israel and the United States had already decided to boycott the conference entirely because its draft...

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout from his speech to a U.N. racism summit on Monday when he accused Israel of establishing a "cruel and repressive racist regime" over the Palestinians. The summit had already been badly undermined by a boycott by the United States and some of its major allies over concerns that it would be used as a platform for attacks against Israel. The boycott left Ahmadinejad, who has in the past cast doubt on the Nazi Holocaust, as the only head of state in attendance. His speech produced the kind of language that...

Obama said in Trinidad, after attending the Summit of the Americas, that the language of the draft declaration prepared for the conference “raised a whole set of objectionable provisions” and raised the risk of a repeat of the 2001 Durban Conference, “which became a session through which folks expressed antagonism toward Israel in ways that were often times completely hypocritical and counterproductive.” “We expressed in the run-up to this conference our concerns that if you adopted all of the language from 2001, that’s not something we can sign up for. Our participation would have involved putting our imprimatur on something...