Bookworm on May 26 2008 | Filed under: Africa, United Nations
The title of my post was a fatuous, smarmy expression during its heyday in the 1960s. With the UN “peacekeepers,” though, it’s taken on a whole, horrible new meaning:
Sexual abuse of children as young as six by aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers has continued unchecked despite repeated promises to stamp it out, according [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations
In today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel:
If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians, he said - but on Palestinians [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Islam, United Nations
I blogged here about the group that presented a report to the UN to point out what many of us have already realized: Muslims are using declarations of human rights as a way to shut down all religions and speech but theirs.
Patrick, my favorite Paragraph Farmer, took that dry report and drew the obvious [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, United Nations
Okay, maybe the UN will listen to the report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) but, somehow, I doubt it:
Islamic states are bidding to use the United Nations to limit freedom of expression and belief around the world, the global humanist body IHEU told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
In a statement [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: United Nations
For a year, Gaza has rained over 2,000 rockets onto Israeli soil, aiming specifically for civilian communities. There was, of course, nary a peep from the UN. Now that Israel has struck back, targeting specifically militants who happen to hide amongst civilian populations, the UN Rights Council springs into action:
The U.N. Human Rights Council has [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: United Nations
It’s obvious, of course, that the UN is no friend to Israel when one reads any report of the proceedings that constantly emanate from UN headquarters. Most of the UN’s effort goes into denouncing Israel. However, a lot of people still naively believe that, on the ground, things are going to be different. That’s why [...]
Bookworm on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: United Nations
Well, Halloween is almost over. The kids, over-stimulated and over-sugared, are having a last snack and then they’re going to bed — no doubt over their vociferous protests.
As is always the case in our neighborhood, it was a very nice Halloween. I know most of the kids who come by to trick or [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, United Nations
My paying clients continue to give me work in vast amounts, which is severely curtailing my ability to blog — especially in the morning, which used to be peak blogging time for me. If it weren’t that my clients are such great people, the projects (for once) interesting, and the pay good, I’d say [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, United Nations
Actions tomorrow will speak louder than words today, but something interesting came out of the mouth of a UN representative — namely, the admission that the UN is focusing a disproportionate amount of its attention on condemning Israel. You don’t believe me? It’s true:
The UN Human Rights Council has failed to handle the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2007 | Filed under: Education, Free speech, Iran, United Nations
You might have noticed that, aside from a few asides, I haven’t had anything to say about Ahmadinejad’s little kaffee klatch at Columbia. Frankly, anything I’ve even thought has been said better and louder at some of my favorite blogs. For lengthy analysis, you should check in with American Thinker or Power Line; [...]
Bookworm on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Iran, Israel, United Nations
No comment, ’cause this one speaks for itself:
Despite its numerous calls for Israel’s destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism.
The planning committee, which will meet for the first time in [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians, Presidential elections, Rudy Giuliani, United Nations
Islamists have, for a long time, been singing a Siren song to Europe: “If you stop support for Israel, we’ll leave you alone and make nice with everyone.” (Tra la la!) A lot of people have actually be seduced into believing that, if they abandon Israel to the Muslim countries surrounding her [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2007 | Filed under: Israel, Jews, Muslim violence, Palestinians, United Nations
The press is full of stories today about Olmert’s deal with Fatah to free hundreds of Palestinians currently in Israeli prisons. During all these maneuverings, no mention is made of the three Israelis held prisoner for over a year — Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. The UN is utterly passive. Ordinary people haven’t [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2007 | Filed under: United Nations
A few days ago, based on a post in Little Green Footballs, I included in my blog a video of Hillel Neuer, of UN Watch, politely blasting the UN Human Rights Council for consistently supporting the world’s most murderous regimes while equally consistently demonizing Israel, the only Democracy in the Middle East. I noted, as [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2007 | Filed under: United Nations
As you watch this amazing video, in which a UN Watch spokesman unloads on the “Human Rights” Council, keep in mind the fact that the first thing the council did when he was finished was try to erase the speech from the record. Then, remember what Winston Smith’s job was in Orwell’s 1984.
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Hat tip: Little [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2007 | Filed under: Palestinians, United Nations
It’s a sad fact that anarchists have no friends. Everything vanishes into the maw of their violence and nihilism. Now the UN is learning that truism for itself, since Palestinians attempted to kidnap a UN official who was in Gaza:
Three masked Palestinian gunmen opened fire Friday on a vehicle carrying the chief of [...]
Bookworm on Jan 24 2007 | Filed under: Iran, United Nations
Iran’s apocalyptic rhetoric is heating up, with Ahmadinijad now predicting America’s end, as well as Israel’s. It seems to me that there’s a fundamental absurdity in one UN member nation threatening the imminent destruction of other member nations. Do you think anyone at the UN is going to suggest booting Iran out, or even scolding [...]
Bookworm on Jan 15 2007 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
I’ve long thought the UN irredeemably corrupt, with the miserable Kofi Annan merely a symptom, not a cause of the problem there. I’m wondering, though, if I might have to revise that thinking just a little bit, in light of something new at UNIFIL. Thanks to Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles, I’ve learned that [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2006 | Filed under: United Nations
John Bolton is leaving the UN, but I’m proud of Bush for doing some finger-pointing:
President Bush said today that John R. Bolton will end his service as the United Nations ambassador when his appointment ends this month.
Mr. Bolton became the ambassador last year under a recess appointment made by President Bush, bypassing the usual requirement [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2006 | Filed under: United Nations
I don’t know what’s most interesting about this story Patrick, the Paragraph Farmer, brought to my attention. What John Bolton said, or the fact that the American media ignored it completely?
The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, launched a scathing attack on the United Nations Friday.
Bolton was furious over the adoption by the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2006 | Filed under: United Nations
The Democrats have turned their sights on John Bolton, the only sane voice in the UN. If you want to attempt to stem this tide, here’s a website with ideas for helping out. If you want some background about (a) how utterly degraded, debased and anti-Semitic the UN is and (b) how important Bolton [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2006 | Filed under: France, Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
From American Thinker:
The French will flex military their “military muscle” to shoot down Israeli observation jets. After years of ignoring Hezbollah preparations to terrorize Israel, after hiding a video that could have helped Israel find out what happened to soldiers murdered by Hezbollah in 2001 (the kidnappers used trucks with UNIFIL identification, trucks that UNIFIL [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2006 | Filed under: Silly Stuff, United Nations
Of Hugh Chavez’s disgraceful exhibition at the UN, Mike Gallagher had this to say:
Once more, Americans are treated to the ugly spectacle of the United Nations hosting some crackpot, U.S.-hating leader. One day, it’s the lunatic president of Iran; the next, it’s the vermin from Venezuela. Adding insult to injury, we apparently provided U.S. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2006 | Filed under: United Nations
If you go to this post, you’ll find a link to a slideshow that LGF’s Charles Johnson put together using photographs that someone took of the 35,000 person strong rally outside of the UN to support Israel. I just have a couple of comments.
First, I wanted to note the very first slide, which is [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2006 | Filed under: Iran, United Nations
I loathe the UN, and I have my doubts about the efficacy of internet petitions. Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, this is the web site for a petition to the UN urging that dissolute, ineffective body to act against Iran’s nuclear ambitions. (And how’s that for a sales pitch for the petition?)
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