Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Everything you ever needed to know about the United Nations but were afraid to sniff... Still reeking from his embrace of Iran's madman, it sounds like General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockman had a grand old time on the 'International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People' -- for people like Brockman, a sort of Christmas and Thanksgiving all rolled into one. It's a great day to denounce those uppity Jews who refuse to die. You can denounce Israel as an apartheid state and moan that, of all the UN's failures, the failure to create another Arab state in Palestine is the UN's greatest historical failure. All this while collecting a salary paid largely by you and I.
Eye on the UN reports: UN General Assembly President Accuses Israel of Apartheid and Calls for a Campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
The President of the UN General Assembly has launched an unprecedented attack on a UN member state from the Assembly podium. Going beyond even existing UN resolutions, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua accused Israel of apartheid and called for "a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions" against it. Reminiscent of a classic antisemitic slur, Brockmann (himself a Roman Catholic priest and one-time official of the World Council of Churches) also claimed our Palestinian "brothers and sisters are being crucified" by Israel.
His remarks were made on November 24, 2008 during the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This annual event marks the adoption of the General Assembly's partition resolution which called for the creation of a Jewish and an Arab state on November 29, 1947...
Antisemitic imagery? Just another day at the UN.
