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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. |  U.S. at Durban II
By Peggy Shapiro
Would President Obama attend or send a U.S. delegate to a Klu Klux Klan planning meeting with the hopes of changing its agenda? That would be outrageous. Then why did the administration announce late last Saturday night that the U.S. is joining the planning sessions for the next U.N. Conference on Racism, known as Durban II, or the International Israel Hate-fest? The President is making conference calls to Jewish leaders to convince them that the two scenarios are not morally identical, but they are.
Durban I was a stage for anti-Semitism and vitriolic condemnation of Israel and Israel alone. No other country was chastised for acts of racism, not even Darfur, where the genocide continues. Israel was the only country which was criticized and the criticism included even its right to exist as a Jewish nation. Although the Durban Declaration makes no reference to the many countries which are now or are becoming Muslim, it calls a homeland for the Jewish people as "racist" by definition. Congress called the conference a forum for "attacking Israel, promoting anti-Semitism, and undermining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." (H.Res. 1361) The anti-Semitism was so flagrant that Colin Powell led a walk out and the U.S. has voted against all U.N. measures which contain elements of the Durban Declaration. What will make Durban II any better? Nothing. The State Department equivocates that it will engage in the preparation stages of the conference and perhaps not the conference itself, yet all U.N. nations who attend the preparatory meetings have agreed to "reaffirm the Durban Declaration." U.S. participation cannot change the objective of Durban II, which is "to foster the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action." It is a done deal. When the European Union attempted to remove some incendiary paragraphs against Israel, Pakistan replied that those paragraphs were going to remain since they were part of the first Durban Declaration and Program of Action." May I remind - we are not here to renegotiate the Durban Declaration and it is already there; we are at the Review Conference and we cannot renegotiate." Plans for Durban II have been underway for several years, and a last minute proposal by the U.S. may, at best, remove one or two inflammatory passages but not the core purpose of the event: promoting anti-Semitism. Continue Reading>>
| | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. |  Henry Siegman, Director of the US Middle East Policy, said: "The refusal of Israel's government or the United States to deal with Hamas [denies] a strong potential for Hamas to transform in the direction of moderation and responsibility and away from violence and terror…. there are indications that such a transformation is taking place. So what we ought not to be doing is to undermine the moderates and strengthen the extremists…. It is clear that if you really want to stop the violence and get a peace agreement and put the parties on a road toward a peace process, no one except Hamas can deliver." (Note: The US Middle East Policy recently sent a letter to the Obama administration urging a change in policy which would reach out to Hamas.)
God says: "If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. … I will establish your borders from the desert to the River. I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them out before you. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you." (Exodus 23: 22-23, 32-33). The Jerusalem Connection says: The capacity of liberals, and liberal Jews of all people, to refuse to accept the diabolical nature of Jihadists, is mind boggling. Even St. Peter, yes St. Peter, had these people correctly pegged when he said, "These men blaspheme about matter of which they are ignorant. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed. They will perish in their own corruption. They will be paid back with suffering for the suffering they have caused." (II Peter 1:12). Negotiations and deterrents simply are not options when dealing with Jihadists, they must be contained militarily. We learned this in Iraq and we are applying it in Afghanistan. Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, Israel will have no other choice, especially with Iran's nuclear capability becoming a realistic threat. In the meantime remember, "The LORD has established His throne in heaven and His kingdom rules over all." (Psalm 103:19).
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