Posted by
Blandly Urbane on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:34:04 AM
Cross posted from
DeMediacratic Nation:
In an opinion/essay follow up to Saturday’s post “UN Summit: Boycott Israel” posted by Basti comes this from Anne Bayefsky at NRO, “Durban II; the coming “anti-racist” spectacle.”
“Last Friday in Geneva,
the U.N. launched a two-year plan which will culminate in a
full-throated anti-American and anti-Israel world conference on racism
in 2009. Modeled on the notorious 2001 Durban
“anti-racism” conference, Durban II similarly promises to attract
terrorist sympathizers and anti-Semites from around the globe. The
spectacle of last week’s planning session might be described as the
theater of the absurd, except that the check handed to the American
taxpayer for 22 percent of the costs was very real.”
The
UN has many different offices that work toward “peace” on earth, one of
which is the “powerful” Security Council, however, with all the
interest groups that help direct government on the planet the Security
Council doesn’t hold the propaganda sway that others do.
Consider the “Human Rights Council,” the lead instigator in the revisiting Durban I and serving as the preparatory committee (PredCom) for Durban II:
“At
its third session, the Human Rights Council in its resolution 3/2
decided that the Human Rights Council will act as the Preparatory
Committee for the Durban Review Conference which shall be open to the
participation of all Member States of the United Nations and members of
the specialized agencies and also to the participation of observers in
accordance with the established practice of the General Assembly. It
further decided that at its organizational sessions the Preparatory
Committee shall elect, on the basis of equitable geographic
representation, a bureau for the Preparatory Committee and that, at the
same session, the Preparatory Committee shall decided on all the
relevant modalities for the Conference in accordance with established
practice of the General Assembly, including deciding on the objectives
of the Review Conference, the level at which the Review Conference
shall be convened, regional preparatory initiatives, date and venue.”
According to Bayefsky:
“On the first day of the session the PrepCom elected Libya as its chair, Cuba as rapporteur, and Iran as a member of its executive — to plan a conference about human rights.”
The Organization of the Islamic Conference
or OIC (for entertainment purposes glance at some of the OIC news on
its homepage) holds the majority of seats on the African and Asian
regional groups, so it effectively is in charge in the quest to guide
the world in recognizing and doing something about human rights.
Some of the PrepCom’s issues it would like to and very likely will include are:
- adopting objectives far beyond the original idea of a “Durban review conference”;
- creating another U.N. committee to prepare for Durban II;
- issuing
special participation invitations only to the U.N. investigators
(rapporteurs) on racism and Islamophobia, and freedom of religion;
- adopting new rules of procedure especially designed for the Conference;
- introducing
vetting for a pre-conference questionnaire that might have asked
potentially intrusive questions of states about actual protection from
discrimination;
- paying for the Durban II preparations from the U.N.’s regular budget (that is the West); and
- allowing every NGO that participated in Durban I to participate in Durban II unless objections were made in just 14 days.
These
are pretty cute when you take a look at them and fall pretty much in
line with any UN led initiative including the usual lack of
accountability that defines the “austere” body. Rather than pacify, members of this committee are those that enflamed Islamic sensibilities during the “InkQuisition.”
The unrecognized war of civilizations continues with the usual suspects in the UN in the lead.