Israel Matzav

Whitewashing Obama's UN

President Obama's UN Ambassador Susan Rice took time off from the Washington party circuit last week to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Rice was there to defend the Obama administration's policy of 'engagement,' and to show off the administration's 'accomplishments' at the UN. Anne Bayefsky rips Rice's testimony to shreds, and I urge you all to read the whole thing. But I want to highlight for you how this evil administration in Washington (yes, Bacci40, they are evil) is selling Israel down the river.

The biggest “engagement” sham of all was her excuse for throwing Israel to the U.N. wolf pack. In Rice’s words: “The results there [at the Human Rights Council] were worse when America sat on the sidelines. . . . Israel was relentlessly bashed. . . . U.S. engagement and leadership are paying dividends.” In fact, at its March session with the Obama administration squarely in the middle of it all, the Council adopted more resolutions bashing Israel than at any other session in its history.

Rice’s written submission contained a section called “singling out Israel” that was intended to be about the U.N., rather than the Obama administration. But she herself said the following: “Israeli settlement activity is illegitimate, undermines Israel’s security, and corrodes hopes for peace and stability in the region.”

This inflammatory statement comes just a few weeks after Palestinian terrorists decapitated a three-month old Jewish baby (and murdered four other members of her family) for the crime of existing on a plot of land whose legal ownership is undecided and subject to negotiation. Until President Obama came into office, a rule prohibiting Jews from living on any Palestinian-claimed land was not American policy. But after Obama’s 2010 General Assembly speech naming an artificial 2011 deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state, Palestinians have been emboldened to use the U.N. to make apartheid-Palestine a fait accompli.

It is time for someone, whether it be members of Congress or a Republican presidential contender, to save America from President Obama’s U.N.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Barack Obama, Susan Rice, United Nations

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:39 AM