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Nov. 21, 2006 If, in January of the coming year, John Bolton should fail to be confirmed by the Senate as the US Ambassador to the UN, he has the option of making his part-time job as Israeli delegate to the UN full-time, to judge by the high praise of his other boss, Dan Gillerman, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN. According to Calcutta News, quoting Arutz Sheva, Dan Gillerman recently told a New York Jewish assembly that John Bolton was Israel’s secret weapon in the UN, and that the Israeli delegation to the United Nations is not five people, as most believe, but six, including John Bolton. Tell me something I don’t know! The only question is which of Bolton’s two loyalties comes first. If the Knesset and Congress give him contradictory recommendations, which body will be obey? Although Bolton pretends to some kind of Christian fundamentalism, his real motives are political, of course. He is a dutiful servant prostrating himself before his masters, following the paradigm of his mentor, George W. Bush, who might be called Israel’s Vice Prime Minister. Anyway, Bolton lambasted the UN for passing a resolution expressing regrets for the recent Israeli killing of 19 Palestinians in Beit Hanoun. In quoting some of his remarks, I have taken the liberty of including in parentheses, what Bolton would have had to add to his statements to make them more consistent with reality. “Many of the sponsors of that resolution (including the United States) are notorious abusers of human rights themselves, and were seeking to deflect criticism of their own policies, (but many of the sponsors were not such abusers, and we owe them the respect of honoring their concerns).” “This type of resolution serves only to exacerbate tensions by serving the interests of elements (understandably) hostile to Israel’s (hardly) inalienable and recognized right to exist (in the middle of somebody else’s homeland).” “This deepens suspicions about the United Nations that will lead many to conclude that (because of US obstructionism and adventurism in the Middle East) the organization is incapable of playing a helpful role in the region.” “The Human Rights Council…has delegitimized itself by focusing attention exclusively on Israel. Meanwhile, it has failed to address real human rights abuses in Burma, Darfur, the DPRK, and other countries, (like Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon).” Despite Bolton’s comments, 156 nations voted for the resolution. Opposing the resolution, along with the highly predictable US, Israel and Australia, were four of the most powerful nations of the western Pacific, namely, Nauru, Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. It must take some kind of transcendental gall to get up before a crowd of delegates who know you’re a liar and and an oaf, and lecture them on their mendacity and stupidity. Whatever kind of gall it takes, John R. Bolton has it. http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/992ea74842e5815d ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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