The Obama-Clinton counterterrorism forum: Even worse than you thought
Anne Bayefsky takes down the Obama-Clinton counterterrorism forum. You know, the one that is chaired by Turkey and in which Israel is not allowed to participate.Part of what she writes is things we have seen before about how wrong it is that Israel is not a part of it, and how it shows how the Obama administration is less sympathetic than it ought to be toward Israel.
But then she comes up with this, which was new to me.
Even more disconcerting are the priorities and solutions that the front-line GCTF players have identified. The United Arab Emirates has been charged with creating one of the main “deliverables,” namely, an International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism. In the words of a State Department Fact Sheet of June 7, 2012, the UAE center “will focus on training, research, and dialogue and collaboration, to counter violent extremism in all of its forms and manifestations.”Read the whole thing.
No wonder Ambassador Benjamin declared at the forum’s September launch that the Obama initiative would not “go through the same old rather sterile debates of what constitutes terrorism.” Every one of the “key” Muslim nations in the GCTF is a party to an international treaty called the Convention of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Combating International Terrorism. That treaty exempts from “terrorist crimes” “armed struggle against foreign occupation, aggression, colonialism, and hegemony, aimed at liberation and self-determination.” Consequently, terrorism against Israelis, or Americans accused of being in the wrong places, will not be appearing on the center’s agenda.
On the contrary, what the UAE means by terrorism in “all its forms and manifestations” was unequivocally spelled out by its UN representative, Ali Alshemail. Speaking at the General Assembly on October 6, 2010, he said:[We] emphasize that elimination of the danger of terrorism requires us to address all forms and manifestations of terrorism without exception, including the state terrorism which violates the right of peoples to self-determination. …In short, Israeli civilians are fair game.
[W]e support…a clear definition of terrorism and to differentiate it from the legitimate struggle of people under foreign occupation
I cannot emphasize this enough: Obama must go.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, counterterrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:05 PM
4 Comments:
Hi Carl.
As i said before:
One day Turkey will accuse Israel of being a terrorist state and the Obama Admin will support them.
Plain as daylight to see what's coming.
In the al Aqsa war, about 50 US passport holding citizens were murdered by the Arabs. The US for all its George Bush tough talk, did nothing. Not only are Israelis fair game for mass murder, US citizens who happen to be Jews are fair game as well. And this has been de facto US policy for more than a decade. Make no mistake, Obama is simply articulating official US antisemitic policy.
Exactly, Will. And not only that, the US together with NATO will invoke the vile Soros/Samantha Power UN "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) to attack Israel. Libya was a dry run for R2P. Emperor Hussein is already a war criminal even before he gets down to his "final solution".
I still don't understand why no one has subpoenaed the LA Times for that Obama/Rashid Khalidi tape.
Exactly, Will. And not only that, the US together with NATO will invoke the vile Soros/Samantha Power UN "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) to attack Israel. Libya was a dry run for R2P. Emperor Hussein is already a war criminal even before he gets down to his "final solution".
I still don't understand why no one has subpoenaed the LA Times for that Obama/Rashid Khalidi tape.
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