Tag Archive 'United Nations'
Bookworm on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Climate change, Judges, Judicial activism, Media matters, United Nations
Sadie sent me a great trio of stories today, and I want to pass them on to you:
The UN wants to make sure that the Western nation’s efforts to protect themselves against cross-dressing jihadists (you know, those guys who don burqas to hide bombs) don’t offend transgendered individuals (who may or may not be hiding [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2009 | Filed under: Israel, United Nations
I’ve long been a Netanyahu fan — going back to the 1970s. He is a brilliant man, a strong executive, an effective communicator, and, as he showed at the UN, he has a moral compass. Obama could take lessons:
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Bookworm on Sep 23 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, United Nations
When it comes to Obama’s speech before the UN, Brett Schaefer and Nile Gardiner are both kind enough to attribute to naivete what I’m increasingly sure is a malignant combination of anti-American feeling and antisemitism.
In the same vein, Paul, at PowerLine, a blogger who has tried to be level-headed about Obama, professes himself horrified by [...]
Bookworm on Aug 04 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama
You’ve already read that the Big O (an increasingly empty hole if there ever was one) is now set to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, the Irish woman who has cheerfully led the UN into ever deeper antisemitic, anti-American depravity. Jennifer Rubin sums up beautifully the only two possibilities that could [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, United Nations
It will be interesting to see how Obama’s talks with Netanyahu go. Netanyahu is light years ahead of Obama in terms of intelligence and experience. Obama, however, has dense ideological filaments in his brain that may render him incapable of deviating from his biases. In other words, I doubt that anything Netanyahu says will deter [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Nations
The head of the UN General Assembly just called Israel an “apartheid” state. In other words, Israel is emblematic of evil in the world. I’ve finally realized what the problem is: Israel has a mixed population.
Think about it: Iraq expelled her Jews and hounded her Christians into obscurity. Saudi Arabia makes it illegal to be [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: United Nations
Just yesterday, I harked back to and updated an old post that commented, in part, on the fact that the UN is saved from ultimate malevolence only by its gross inefficiency and internal corruption. With perfect timing, this story appeared in today’s news:
The U.N. Human Rights Council, frequently accused of coddling some of the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Conservative ideology, Leftist morality, United Nations
Ymarsakar brought to my attention a post I wrote over three years ago. I’m reprinting a slightly edited version here, not just because I think it describes well the Arab psyche that drives so much of current international politics (and fears) today, but also because I think it does a good job of describing the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 06 2008 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
I ask, because I hope that’s what Israel does when it receives this request.
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 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 [...]
