How reassuring it is that the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations spends a lot of her time defending Israel.
The JTA reports:
Susan Rice said a major part of her work as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is defending Israel’s legitimacy.
“It’s a huge part of my work to the United Nations,” Rice said Sunday evening, launching this year’s Consultation on Conscience, an event in Washington for Reform movement social activists organized by the Religious Action Center.
She likened the volume of work to her efforts to coordinate Syria’s isolation and contain violence and abuses in Sudan.
Rice said she often works in “lockstep” with the Israeli delegation.
“We will not rest in the crucial work of defending Israel’s security and legitimacy every day at the United Nations,” she said.
Rice said Israel’s success at the United Nations often is not reported — for instance in joining the boards of the U.N. Development Program and UNICEF, and in advancing development initiatives.
One thing to note, as Rice does, is that Israel does cooperate at times with the UN–not that that always turns out to be a good thing. Who could forget the Orwellian press conference on UNICEF’s damning report Children in Israeli Military Detention where reporters couldn’t film or quote officials? Where UNICEF’s Jerusalem chief Jean Gough publicly thanked Israel for trying children under a separate and unequal apartheid legal system?
And perhaps there’s a good reason why Israel’s “success” at the United Nations is often not reported: it doesn’t spell success for the rest of us. Instead of working in “lockstep” with Israel’s delegation at the UN to defend the indefensible, the US should be concerned with its own legitimacy–because Israel’s is in the gutter.
Agreed. Gee, what a surprise, our mainstream media did not find Rice’s statement worthy of discussion. She says she’s also spending a lot of time “coordinating Syria’s isolation.” So, check this out:
Eli Clifton
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Minutes after announcement that Syria used chem weapons, AIPAC sends fundraising email warning about ‘Syria in chaos’ pic.twitter.com/D5ClcDT51d
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How many clues do Dick and Jane need to decipher that America’s foreign policy is being run by a tiny state the size of NJ via AIPAC orchestration of the Jewish Establishment in the USA?
Someone should ask of Congress and the White House why it is that Israel gets to pick America’s enemies, i.e., Palestinians, Arabs, Iranians, Muslims.
“We will not rest in the crucial work of defending Israel’s security and legitimacy every day at the United Nations,” she said.”
One day they will. One day it will be a no brainer. But Israel will probably have done something truly dreadful to get even Fox opinion turned against it.
Susan rice is pathetic. US congress is pathetic.
I remember reading about how half of congress (either that or senate) was having a collective aneurism because Keith Ellison choose to place his hand on the Quran whilst being sworn into his office.
The cheerleaders of the “outrage” over this were of course the heads of the Zionist pack in America.
It’s only re4sonable that rice spends most of her time working for Israel. Gee, gotta do somwething in your spare time, and the USA is so big it gets wg=hat it needs without UN intervention.
Do wish she’d spend some time announcing that, since Israel’s “legitimacy” was finally and permanently established, she was not going to spend any more time defending it, allowing her time to work to correct Israel’s sad lapses of judgment, its stumbling baby steps on the path toward grown-up-edness in the international area, you know, like its 45 year old settlement project. And its apartheid system, something that the USA is hard-pressed to describe accurately whilst declaring that USA’s and Israel’s interests and values are identical.