d'Escoto embracing Ahmadinejad at the UN
Last week I had the opportunity to watch on C-Span a press conference with Miguel d’Escoto Brockman, current President of the United Nations General Assembly and anti-Semite extraordinaire. This U.S. born Nicaraguan diplomat and Maryknoll priest, as well as Sandinista, is well known for his leftist sympathies and for being a virulent critic of Israel and the United States. In the course of this particular press conference he again placed the blame for the current crisis in Gaza squarely on Israel. Even journalists questioned this unprecedented attack by a President of the General Assembly, who, in this position should at least give the semblance of impartiality.
Throughout his career d’Escoto has criticized Israel as an apartheid state, and called for boycott, sanctions and divestment as a method of fighting Israeli policies. In a particularly virulent attack d’Escoto accused Israel of “crucifying our Palestinian brothers and sisters.” This accusation, loaded with double meaning, brought condemnation from many Jewish organizations and a call for his outsting from his current position. Of course all these condemnations fell on deaf ears and he remains in his post. During Ahmadinejad’s visit to the U.N. he was warmly received by d’Escoto, who was also seen applauding Ahmadinejad and embracing him after his speech.
The United Nations is again moving into the ideological positions it had in the 70’s. A test of the Obama administration will be to see how Barack Obama, who in Berlin referred to himself as a citizen of the world, deals with this government of the world. One good start would be for him to join those calling for Mr. D’Escoto to be fired. I will not hold my breath waiting.
1 comment:
The jewish state is nothing but the FRAUD of the age. a state that existed on the blood of innocent people, and the fabrications of the Bible, or the Holy Bible, as it’s jokingly referred to on the front cover; the costume drama from Hell, a mesmerizing soup of image and metaphor into which any fantasy can be read,
and by which any horror can be justified. and therefore, we, the free western world, had to slaughter an entire nation, deport it, and replace it with a dispora of jews which we didn't like to welcome in our land, and so we invented a "holy" place for them, and what could possibly be better than Palestine? the alleged "holy" land of the people of Yehweh, the psychopath in the sky.
d'Escoto knows this.. but do you know it?
as to the antisemitism mentioned in your article. you don't really believe that the current jews living in Israel, including the dispora from Ethiopia, Poland, eastern Europe etc.. are semitic do you? and therefore, your whole idea of antisemitism is built on a misconception. I suggest you read more about the definition of semitic, you will realize that the term Semite means a member of any of various ancient and modern people originating in southwestern Asia, including Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and mostly Arabs.
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