Our President Isn’t A Very Quick Study, Israel Finds
The unwillingness of the State Department to defend freedom against barbarism is troublesome, but not really a surprise.
The U.S. administration attended four full days of negotiation. During that time they witnessed the following: the failure to adopt a proposal to act against Holocaust denial, a new proposal to single out Israel, which will now be included in the draft without brackets, broad objections to anything having to do with sexual orientation, vigorous refusal by many states to back down on references to “Islamophobia” (the general allegation of a racist Western plot to discriminate against all Muslims), and numerous attacks on free speech.
This “dialogue” is not promoting rights and freedoms. It is legitimizing a forum for disputing the essence of democracy, handing Holocaust deniers a global platform and manufacturing the means to demonize Israel in the interests of those states bent on the Jewish state’s destruction.
But you can be sure that the State Department report now on Obama’s desk reads “can’t tell yet, don’t know, maybe, too early to tell.” Why?
I can come up with a couple guesses. First, the primary mission of the State Department is to make sure that State Department bureaucrats can continue to go to swanky parties at foreign embarries. If they take a tough line on Islamism and support one of our closest allies, those invitations will start to dry up. There’s little a European diplomat these days hates more than someone who takes a firm line on anything, much less one that protects Israel against her many devlish foes.
Second, the Obama administration has no flipping idea what its position should be on the matters discussed at Durban II aside from “make nice with people”.
The second is a much larger problem than the first. We’re used to a State Department that prizes its own comfort above taking a tough stand against evil. What we’re not used to is a President whose foreign policy knowledge seems to have come from a quick skim through My First Pop-Up Book of Diplomacy by Jimmy Carter. You can bet that every single one of our enemies saw how meekly we laid down at Durban II.
Our friends in Israel did as well.
(via memeorandum)
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- What Has Israel Done to Earn Such Hate from the West?
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- Hamas’ Choice: Quit or Die
Category: Alliances and Allies, Anti-Semitism Everywhere, President Barack Obama
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