Anne Bayefsky: Obama Turns His Back on Israel at the UN

In case you thought it couldn't get any worse... it just did.

 

  

 

Today, at the United Nations, the Obama administration is turning its back on Israel.

For the very first time, the U.N. Security Council has invited the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to “brief” the Council specifically on the subject of Israel and the commissioner’s list of trumped-up sins. Though the U.S. is a veto-holding power, the extraordinary move has full American approval, despite the fact that the global soapbox will be handed to Navi Pillay, a notorious anti-Israel partisan.

Moreover, the American-backed action exposes President Obama’s profound weakness on the international stage. It turns out that the deal to sponsor an Israel-bashing session at the highest levels was a trade-off for having the high commissioner brief the Council on the subject of Syria. 

The Security Council has not acted on Syria since an April 21, 2012, resolution, which sent unarmed observers over to watch the bloodshed. France wanted a high commissioner briefing on Syria to generate more noise. Council member Pakistan said no, unless Israel was on the chopping block, too. The Russians also said no, unless Libya was on the table. Russia seeks to use the mess in that country to obstruct stronger measures on Syria.

At this point in the diplomatic game, the Obama administration could have insisted that Israel not be sacrificed as the quid pro quo for paying due attention to the Syrian carnage. Instead, they caved, agreeing to a spectacle which casts Syria and Israel as moral equals....

.... Furnishing [UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi "R2P" Pillay] with a Security Council podium to attack Israel, therefore, must be set side by side with President Obama’s reelection campaign verbiage. Voters are rightly concerned by the president’s full frontal embrace of the United Nations. So administration officials are being dispatched to address Jewish voters in key states like Florida quite specifically on the subject of the Obama response to the demonization of Israel at the U.N. ...

 

 

 

Comments

[Joel]

Listening to these idiots makes me wonder about the benefits of democracy. Liberals are for the rights of everybody but conservatives aren't? Memo to these clueless dopes - FDR is dead and he was not our friend.

[Mannie Sherberg]

I don't buy Bayevsky's premise that Obama "caved" because he's "weak." I see no evidence of weakness in the guy -- and I think those of us who tell ourselves he is are whistling past the graveyard. If anything, the man is proving to be one of the toughest presidents in recent history: simply by making a few disparaging remarks about the Supreme Court, he intimidated the Chief Justice into legalizing the achievement that he believes will assure his place in history. This guy isn't weak -- he's smart, shrewd, conniving, and -- at the moment -- winning every fight. There's no evidence he "caved" on the UN hearing. He's simply carrying out his program of appeasing the Muslim world -- the same program he announced three years ago in Cairo and has stuck with ever since. He's keeping his promises: he's providing hope and change that's applauded by his real constituencies throughout the Socialist and Muslim worlds. As long as we mistake this man for "weak," we have no chance of defeating him. We'd better recognize him for what he is: a guy who goes for the jugular -- every time. That's what's made him a winner -- and let's not deny that whatever else he is, Obama is a winner.

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