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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Just how anti-American are you?

hypocritexposer

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August 11, 2009
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Just how anti-American are you?
Ed Lasky
Mary Robinson, who has done much damage as the leader of Durban I-the UN Conference that became an anti-American and anti-Semitic hate fest, will receive our nation's highest civilian award this week, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Jennifer Rubin at Commentary contentions has done admirable work revealing her anti-Israel bona fides; Claudia Rosett and John Bolton have illuminated her history of anti-American statements and actions over the years (the reasons Obama probably thought she was deserving of a medal).

The UN Watch is a well-regarded non-governmental organization, based in Geneva, that was established decades ago to monitor the UN and ensure that it held true to its charter-to safeguard human rights in a non-biased way. Needless to say, the group has been quite busy over the years as the UN has become a plaything of tyrants and ant-American despots who have used the UN to restrain America, disparage capitalism, and demonize Israel.

The group is headed by Hillel Neuer, who can be seen being treated with disdain by the UN Human Rights Council when he criticized them for ignoring human rights violations around the world while it spent its time castigating Israel .

Of course, Mary Robinson has a history with this particular UN Group as she headed its predecessor the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw its blatant turn towards anti-American, anti-Israel activism. Neuer knows her history, and sent a letter to Robinson, noting some facts and asking her some questions. . It is a bill of particulars that neither she nor the President who chose to honor her will bother to read.

Some tidbits:

That You Condoned the Tehran Hatred of February 2001

In February 2001, when the Tehran preparatory meeting of Asian states adopted a text condemning only one country-demonizing Israel as a country guilty of a "new kind of apartheid, a crime against humanity," and calling Zionism a "racist and violent movement based on racist and discriminatory ideas"- your response was to congratulate the Tehran delegates for their "high degree of consensus."

That You Opposed the U.S. at the Geneva Pre-Conference of August 2001

Lantos detailed your actions during the emergency Geneva meeting of August 2001, a last-minute attempt to stave off the impending disaster. "Mrs. Robinson's intervention with the assembled delegates later in the same day left our delegation deeply shocked and saddened. In her remarks, she advocated precisely the opposite course to the one Secretary [Colin] Powell and I had urged her to take. Namely, she refused to reject the twisted notion that the wrong done to the Jews in the Holocaust was equivalent to the pain suffered by the Palestinians in the Middle East.

His letter is worth reading as its gives us an insight into the type of ideology that Obama himself holds.
 

don

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you are so out of touch with the world. take a break and try travelling with an open mind. oh yeah, the rest of the world is out of step with you!
 

MsSage

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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is given by the President of the United States to recognize individuals who have made an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States.
Sorry BUT how does the rest of the world think really matter in this award?
Please explain how her being ANTI American is meritorious to America?
 

don

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you, i think, should stay home. travel would be a waste. you would never be able to grasp that the american way isn't the only way and sometimes not the best way.
 

MsSage

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well gee golly wilikers iz guess iz best be a staying rite here



What an arrogant Elitist you are. Too bad you KNOW nothing about me nor have you ever tried, so keep your self righteous pompous judgment to yourself.
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
August 01, 2009
Who really selected Mary Robinson for the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Ed Lasky
President Barack Obama's decision to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Mary Robinson, who headed a United Nation Commission that condoned suicide bombing against Israelis and who also was in charge of the Durban Conference Against Racism that became an anti-Semitic hate-fest reminiscent of Nazi Germany (and that the Unites States and Israel boycotted, to Robinson's consternation), has elicited some measure of controversy.

Jennifer Rubin at Commentary has been doing outstanding work detailing the history of Robinson; columnist Melanie Phillips has also responded while Eric Fingerhut of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has tried to minimize the controversy (as is the wont of the JTA whenever a Democrat seems to take actions that would strike many Jews as offensive). This treatment by Fingerhut is especially striking because leading Jewish Democrats have been highly critical of Robinson in the recent past: these figures include Richard Holbrooke who currently serves in the Obama administration and the late Congressman Tom Lantos, who was revered among Jews in America for his moral rectitude and the respect his views commanded as the only Holocaust survivor to have served in the American Congress).

Speculation has arisen regarding the choosing of Robinson and her vetting. Jennifer Rubin asked the White House to explain the process and she was stonewalled (so much for transparency and openness) . Tevi Troy speculates that Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod might be the responsible parties.

I have another candidate in mind (a hat tip to Richard Baehr for the thought): Samantha Power.

Power was the closest foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama during the campaign; they have enjoyed a close friendship for years (they text each other at all hours and are basketball buddies); Power married Obama's close friend from the University of Chicago Cass Sunstein, who serves as the Regulatory Czar in the adminsitration; Power, like Robinson, was born in Ireland; Power is an internationalist who place great faith in the United Nations and transnational groups -- such as the EU -- as does Robinson, who boosted her career, once she left Irish politics, making a name for herself in international forums; Power even wrote a book that glorified the career of the late UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello; both Power and Robinson have made clear they are adversaries of Israel and supporters of the Palestinians.

I just found out that Sergio de Mello (Power's hero) had replaced Mary Robinson as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Power is an indefatigable researcher. I strongly suspect she must have come into personal contact with Robinson in writing her book on de Mello.

Obama appointed Power to serve on the National Security Council. She serves as the senior director for multilateral affairs at the NSC. Undoubtedly, given the circles both Power and Robinson float in, their paths have crossed many times. I have a hard time thinking that either Axelrod or Emanuel would come up with the idea of awarding the Medal of Freedom to Robinson. Emanuel would know then name and would know it would be a red flag to the Jewish community; Axelrod has focused his life on winning campaigns in America. He probably never would have even heard of Robinson.

Nor do I think Obama would necessarily have come across Robinson -- he, after all, was a state Senator just a few years ago and when he became US senator was too busy running for the Presidency to familiarize himself with people like Robinson; he was more focused on domestic affairs and winning the Presidency.

I think the idea for nominating Robinson came from the woman who thinks very much like her and probably desires to emulate her: Samantha Power.

Where is Alan Dershowitz, who defended Barack Obama from charges that he was less than supportive of the American-Israel relationship and had taken steps to damage that friendship? Dershowtiz defended Israel's actions against terrorism, including steps that nation took to defend itself from the suicide bombing that Robinson supported.

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