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Israel, U.S. to coordinate on boycott of UN Conference on Racism

Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent | 04.04.2008 21:49 | Anti-racism | World

Criticizing blatant and perpetuated, state-supported Racism has somehow become 'antisemitism'. Orwell is turning in his grave ...

Israel, U.S. to coordinate on boycott of Durban II conference
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: UN, Durban II, Israel, U.S.

Israel and the U.S. decided a few weeks ago to boycott the Durban II conference scheduled for early 2009 and likely to harshly criticize Israel's human rights record unless they receive firm guarantees that the event will not turn into anti-Israel festival.

(In other words, no criticism of Israel will be tolerated by Israel or its sponsor. Negating the biggest problems from discussion is meant to avoid a resolution, because Zionists know what they're doing is wrong, but they simply don't care.)

According to a senior government official, the joint decision was made after discussions among senior U.S. State Department and local Foreign Ministry officials, and after being raised in talks between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Israel and the U.S. decided to make their participation in the conference conditional on guarantees the event would not become a rerun of the previous United Nations rights conference in Durban in 2001.

"The burden of proof will be on the UN and the organizers," a Jerusalem source stated.

(This is Israeli/Zionist Hasbara/Propaganda by the numbers. Put the target on the defensive. The UN doesn't have to prove anything. Israel and its fellow criminal state must prove that this criticism is unwarranted.)

The September 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa had been slated to deal with racism and xenophobia, sponsored by South Africa, the UN Human Rights Commission and the UN non-aligned states a body dominated by Arab states.

The conference was attended by official government delegations, as well as non-government organizations who dictated a hard anti-Israel and anti-Semitic line.

(There was nothing 'antisemitic' in this, because the criticism was not directed at Jews, but at Zionists, their military state, and their documented, perpetual racism and human rights abuses.)

The attacks on Israel included accusations of apartheid, that Zionism is racism, and that the Holocaust is not a unique event but similar to other events in history.

(The first two are not 'attacks', they are statements of the truth, supported by evidence.)

Delegates also said Israel was "born in sin," the result of ethnic cleansing of Arabs and that in the present, it is committing genocide against Palestinians.

(And this is true ...)

U.S. and Israel's representatives walked out of the conference in protest at these attacks.

(Again, these are not 'attacks'.)

Israel and world Jewish organizations have begun a campaign against the upcoming conference, although it still has no final date or location.

(Note that the 'Jewish' organizations in question operate as Zionist organizations, lobbyists and proponents of Israel. Many of them have had their popularly-selected Boards replaced with Zionist 'Emergency Cabinets' in order to deal with this growing outrage, and hide itself behind the Jews' good name.)

In February, the Foreign Ministry held its first coordinating meeting and another will be held next month in Geneva, under the auspices of the UN Watch monitoring group, and will discuss strategies to prevent anti-Semitism and attacks on Israel at the follow-up conference.

So far, Canada has announced plans to boycott the conference and Israel is trying to convince other countries to make their participation conditional on preventing a similar agenda.

(The current Canadian Government, led by Stephen Harper and his rebranded Alliance/Reform parties, has aligned itself with organized Zionism, and abandoned Canada's traditional position on the Middle East. He is also closely aligned with the Bush Administration.)

Jerusalem estimates that conference organizers will try to blur the real agenda until the last minute to draw in as many UN members as possible. "We are concerned this time too there will be criticism and an anti-Semitic attack," a Foreign Ministry official said. "What can you expect from a conference whose organizers include Cuba, Iran and North Korea."

(That is an attack. Criticizing Israel for its actions and systemic racism is the very INTENT of a conference on Racism.)

On Wednesday, many major U.S. newspapers ran an advertisement signed by 25 public figures including former politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals, calling on the government to boycott the conference. Signatories included Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, former CIA chief James Woolsey and law professor Alan Dershowitz.

(All of these are staunch Zionists ...)

The signatories called on Rice to announce a boycott of the conference, denouncing it as a platform for anti-Semitism "slated to encourage hatred of Israel and the U.S."

(The whole "Boy That Cried Wolf Act" is getting just a tad bit insulting ...)

The U.S. decision to boycott the conference came in coordination with Israel. The two countries agreed to publish a joint statement similar to Livni's recent announcement that Israel plans to boycott the conference as long as it serves as a platform for anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment.

(What this really means is that neither state can address the criticism, because they know it's legitimate, so they toss these shameful, antisemitic slurs about in a desperate campaign of Disinformation.)

A Jerusalem official expressed regret that there appears to be no change in the conference's agenda. "Israel is sorry that the UN secretary general and the UN Human Rights Commission are not doing enough to change the content despite their dissatisfaction.

"This is another example of how a UN-sponsored conference to fight racism and xenophobia is about to become an arena for extreme political Israel-bashing, while ignoring areas in the world where racism, religious persecution and intolerance of foreigners, are rampant."

(Note that the author doesn't allow any of the people involved in the conference or in this factually-supported criticism to comment ...)

Israel plans to continue combating the planned conference content together with Jewish (Zionist) groups and the U.S. and Canadian (Zionist-aligned) governments.

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/971779.html

Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

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