U.N. Repudiates Obama Diplomacy

by Ross Kaminsky (more by this author) Posted 10/22/2009 ET

Last Friday, the U.N. Human Rights Council repudiated the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts to establish a Middle Eastern peace by passing -- by 25-6 -- a resolution in support of the “Goldstone Report”, a 575-page thinly disguised attack against Israel. It is not just more of the same from the U.N.: it’s much worse.

The report, covering Israel’s month-long incursion into the Gaza Strip late last year (Operation Cast Lead lasted from December 27, 2008 until January 18, 2009), puts on a thin veneer of even-handedness by accusing both Israelis and Palestinians of crimes, but contradicts so many of the facts that its conclusion -- that Israeli officials may be guilty of war crimes -- should be completely lacking in credibility. But in the bizarre world of the U.N., such is the norm and the accusation taken so seriously there -- and in Europe -- that Israeli government officials may soon not be able to travel to Europe for fear of arrest.......

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