NYPost.com:
Sad. Another Bush-hater gets kudos from Barry's administration. At least the Jews aren't taking this diss lying down.THE Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. Past recipients include John Wayne, Norman Rockwell and Vaclav Havel. This year, one of the 16 recipients President Obama selected (along with such worthies as Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late Jack Kemp) is former Irish President and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.
Bad choice.
Robinson's views are well out of the American foreign-policy mainstream. Rep. Peter King (R-LI) says, "She is definitely from the school of moral equivalency which somehow invariably comes down on the side against vibrant democracies such as Israel and the United States."
Despite her noble commitment to human rights, Robinson has become a symbol of all that's wrong in the human-rights community and the United Nations -- of the tendency to appease dictatorships, rationalize terrorism and bash the West.
She is perhaps best known for presiding over the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa -- which targeted the West, especially Israel, while overlooking racism in Arab countries. The conference was so biased the United States and Israel boycotted it.
In the tense months before convening in Durban, Robinson failed to listen to pleas from Secretary of State Colin Powell and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), among others, to stop Arab dictators from hijacking an anti-racism conference to advance their anti-Zionist agenda. Afterward, she declared the disaster a success, even after she herself belatedly condemned the vicious anti-Semitism coursing through the streets of Durban at a parallel forum of nongovernmental agencies.
Robinson has criticized US foreign policy throughout her career. Since 9/11, she has blasted the United States for losing the "moral high ground" -- as if she's more focussed on trying to win the "minds and hearts" of unrepentant terrorists than on the dilemmas that democracies face in fighting terror.
She also blasted the United States for objecting to the new UN Human Rights Council in 2006 -- even though America was rightly protesting the power the forum granted to human-rights-abusing dictatorships such as Libya and Sudan.
The Obama administration had to be aware of all this before the president decided to honor her. The White House has careful procedures for selecting winners of awards like this, and for running these names by key White House offices to avoid trouble.
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In fact, Israel didn't boycott it, they weren't invited.
ReplyDeleteFuck you.
You are rightMary Robinson is an leftist,a feminist
ReplyDeletewhich is to say she is a solipsist. A subjectivist.
She got elected president in Ireland only because the opposition was so awful. Irish politics is an open sewer and the scum rise to the top. I am Irish and I apologise to the world for this anti semitic anti reason typical leftist.The Human Rights brigade are a waste of money, time and space.
UNelected UNdemocratic UNnecessary UNaccountable . My Advice...Get the UN OUT of America!
I don't get it, how does this make her antisemetic, she doesn't seem to hate jews at all?
ReplyDeleteShe doesnt hate Jews, she has not been overtly supportive of Isrealie policy, which is apparently all it takes to be considered Anti-semetic.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most absurd, biased article I have read in a long time.
ReplyDeleteSo America should spend more time and money protecting the Israeli borders even though they seem to be warmongering with the Iranians instead of playing nice and low key which would make the most sense....
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