Fighting Racism, UN-Style -Editorial
One of Colin Powell's best moves as Secretary of State was to pull out of the
2001 United Nations Durban confab against racism once it became an anti-Semitic rant.
One of the best moves the new U.S. administration and Europe could make is to stay away from the follow-up meeting altogether. "Durban II," planned for April in Geneva, promises to be an encore of the same old Israel-bashing.
Israel said last month it will stay away from Geneva. Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper deserves kudos for having made that call already back in January.
The decision about whether to send an American delegation to Durban II will be
an early test of Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton and the new Obama Administration. Western states would best serve the antiracism cause by joining Ottawa and Jerusalem in a boycott of this hate fest.
(Wall Street Journal)
One of Colin Powell's best moves as Secretary of State was to pull out of the
2001 United Nations Durban confab against racism once it became an anti-Semitic rant.One of the best moves the new U.S. administration and Europe could make is to stay away from the follow-up meeting altogether. "Durban II," planned for April in Geneva, promises to be an encore of the same old Israel-bashing.
Israel said last month it will stay away from Geneva. Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper deserves kudos for having made that call already back in January.
The decision about whether to send an American delegation to Durban II will be
an early test of Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton and the new Obama Administration. Western states would best serve the antiracism cause by joining Ottawa and Jerusalem in a boycott of this hate fest.(Wall Street Journal)
1 comment:
There were a lot of mixed opinions of us pulling out of the first one. Sadly, many forces collide when you try to have one world wide conference on this volatile subject. Countries view things differently, and if one country, even a morally sound one, says some things are self-evident, then another insists their position is as well. Amazingly the Wall Street Journal may have called this one correctly. Unless there is a real change in thrust for this meeting and a softening down to a core set of values for ending discrimination. But even for that, it is hard to imagine the many conflicting ideologies in the world today being able to agree on any core set of values.
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