R.P. BenDedek
United Nations Farce: Durban II
By R.P. BenDedek
Apr 17, 2009 - 4:51:05 AM

Having just published at Magic City an article entitled: Free Speech is a Myth I am now beginning to wonder if perhaps things are worse than I thought.

Today I received my regular Women for Israel's Tomorrow Newsletter within which was contained an article entitled:

• The Durban II Snow Job: One giant leap backwards for humankind by Anne Bayefsky

A version of this article appears in The New York Daily News, Thursday, April 16, 2009 and may also be read online at Eye on the UN.  Here are some excerpts.

The UN's idea of an anti-racism conference entered the final stretch today with the planning committee deciding Iran ought to preside as a Vice-Chair, Libya will serve as the Chair of the "Main Committee" running the conference and Cuba will be the Rapporteur. All three human rights paragons will assume their new duties on the first day of "Durban II" set for Monday, April 20th.

Here is what can be found in the latest draft of the UN's new "anti-racism" bible:

Condemnation of "foreign occupation" aka Israel-bashing. Foreign occupation is said to be "closely associated with racism, racial discrimination...and contribute to the persistence of racist attitudes and practices..." In other words, labeling the Jewish nation as the world's racist state is back.

"Defamation of religions" returns under a new guise. The document professes "deep concern" about "the negative stereotyping of religions."

More of the Islamic assault on free speech. The draft "reaffirms that all dissemination of ideas based on...incitement to racial discrimination...shall be declared offences punishable by law..."

More Iranian-driven references to "cultural diversity" the diplomatic cover for the murder of homosexuals, judicially-sanctioned amputation of hands and feet, and the stoning of woman for alleged adultery.

Renewed emphasis on the "transatlantic slave trade" and total rejection of a proposed mention of the trans-Saharan slave trade perpetrated by Arabs and other Africans.

Additional emphasis on the adoption of "complementary standards" on racism and xenophobia an Islamic idea designed to subvert the universal principles in existing treaties.

On Monday, April 20th, the anniversary of Hitler's birth, an Iranian will be elected as a Vice-chair of a global "anti-racism" conference. In the afternoon of opening day, a genocidal Holocaust denier Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address a UN conference "against" racism. The European Union will sit and listen to an antisemite give a lecture about combating intolerance. And in the end most UN states will adopt a document incompatible with the UN's foundational principle of the equality of all men and women and nations large and small.

A good day for UN-based antisemites. A bad day for those who care about human rights.

I think it is time for us to realise that there is something going on in the United Nations that is working within an agenda far removed from Democratic Principles and Personal Freedoms that we expect.

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The essential history by Melanie Phillips (spectator.co.uk)

• "In 1920, Great Britain was given the responsibility by the League of Nations to oversee the Mandate over the geographical territory known as Palestine with the express intention of reconstituting within its territory a Jewish National Home. The territory in question stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the eastern boundary of Mandatory Palestine, which was a border that would separate it from what was to become the future state of Iraq.
• In 1921, however, Churchill unilaterally gave away most of this territory to the Hashemite dynasty to create what later became known as Jordan.

Bursting the Demographic Bubble: From Baseless Demographic Fatalism to Well-Documented Demographic Optisism  youngisrael.org

• In defiance of demographic fatalism, Israel's demographic momentum has been Jewish.  Since 1882 (the launching of annual Aliya), the Jewish population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean has grown 238 fold, while the Arab population increased only 6 fold.  Since 1948, the Jewish population increased almost 10 fold and the Arab population expanded 3 fold.
• In sharp contrast to conventional wisdom, the UN Population Division reports a sharp decline of fertility rate (number of births per woman) in Muslim and Arab countries, except in Afghanistan and Yemen.  The myth of "doubling Muslim population every 20 years" has been shattered against the rocks of modernity and reality.

R.P. BenDedek

Email: rpbendedek@kingscalendar.com

R.P.BenDedek is the Author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' and a guest columnist at Magic City Morning Star News.

"The King's Calendar" [ on sale - while the economic recession is on], is a chronological study of the historical books of the Bible (Kings and Chronicles), Josephus, Seder Olam Rabbah, and the (Essene) Damascus Document of The Dead Sea Scrolls. See Chapter Precis page.

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