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How Effective Was the U.S. at the Pre-"Durban II" Negotiations?
[Forbes] Anne Bayefsky - The U.S. administration attended four full days of negotiations in Geneva on planning the UN's Durban II "anti-racism" conference. During that time they witnessed the following: the failure to adopt a proposal to act against Holocaust denial, a new proposal to single out Israel which will now be included in the draft without objection, vigorous refusal by many states to back down on references to "Islamophobia" (the general allegation of a racist Western plot to discriminate against all Muslims), and numerous attacks on free speech. This "dialogue" is not promoting rights and freedoms. It is legitimizing a forum for disputing the essence of democracy, handing Holocaust deniers a global platform and manufacturing the means to demonize Israel in the interests of those states bent on the Jewish state's destruction.