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Virulent Anti-Semitism

Does history repeat itself? When does it not? Surely the world remembers Durban, South Africa in 2001, when allegedly 'NGO' confreres magnanimously handed out broadsheets in praise of Adolf Hitler's Judenrein agenda? Where appreciative crowds could ogle caricatures of the hook-nosed Jewish stereotype, gorging on the blood of gentile children? And which United Nations officials denounced after the fact, as "virulent anti-Semitic behaviour", and as such never to be repeated.

That was then, seven years ago, at Durban, when the first United Nations World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance took place. As a purportedly honourable and credible attempt by a commission of the world body to look racism straight in its ugly face and denounce it, deride it, expunge it from human experience.

A new day would dawn, where all the countries of the world would pledge to eradicate racism, to happily embrace their universal, compassionate responsibility to their fellow man.

Except that what the conference bred and encouraged was a raucous and exuberant display of fascist intolerance, of the deliberate isolation of a sole country as the foremost example of racist ideology and the hateful targeting for contempt and abuse. Israel, whose formation resulted from the Jewish nation realizing that there would be no safety for Jews anywhere in the world other than to settle back where history and geography bred them.

A country settled by Jews, governed by Jews, and established for the sole purpose of offering a safe haven for Jews from all over the world. Where Jewish lives, their culture, their tradition, their religion, would be honoured and safeguarded. Events in past history proved all too conclusively that social and public opinion could be readily vulgarized to view a Jewish presence as a contaminating social disease.

That the world would stand by as millions of Jewish lives were painstakingly processed, numbered, tracked, and exterminated. Jewish property re-assigned, and nothing to go to waste; their ragged concentration-camp clothing, their gold dental appliances, their bones for soap production, their skin for exquisite leather-making and lamp-shade manufacture. Their priceless antique religious symbols worthy of show in a museum dedicated to a lost civilization.

At the original Durban conference in 2001, after all the denunciations of Israel, the campaigning against its legitimacy, the parading of signage equating Zionism with racism, and Israel designated a brutal regime of human-rights abuse, a communique was released denoting Israel's Zionist immigration rules as being "based on racial discrimination with the aim of continuing domination of the occupied territory...a new kind of apartheid, a crime against humanity, a form of genocide and a serious threat to international peace and security."

There, that about covers it all. The land of Israel exists as a human-rights abomination, a despicable plot to take territory not their own, a governmental and national dedication to further the degradation of an already land-marginal people, deprived of what was historically theirs. This, from countries that have traditionally waged territorial warfare on one another, where the winner takes the spoils, the losers bewail cruel fate.

African countries from the Sudan to Congo to Zimbabwe, whose contemptible abuse of their own people exists beyond human comprehension. Forever fractious, their enmity for one another, their careless and criminal neglect of their peoples' fundamental human needs abrogated, yet they stand in judgement of a duly and justly constituted country given acknowledgement in the very world body now an accessory of the conference condemning Israel.

Middle-East potentates, charlatans, dictators, theocrats and their totalitarian governments imposing rigid standards on a vast population for their own personally availing and very particular authoritarian rule, whose legendary abuse of human rights and casual practise of torture, along with traditional honour killings, and impositions of fatwas on those insulting Islam, insist on teaching a liberal democratic country true values.

Israel, the committee claims, is guilty of torture, along with a form of genocide, and presents as a threat to international peace and security. The agenda declares that Jerusalem must be liberated from "foreign occupation together with all its racial practices" and affirms the right of Palestinians to "return to their homeland". That this is also the traditional, historical and cultural homeland of the Jews is of no moment.

The newly-released agenda emanating from the organizing committee chaired by Libya, Pakistan, Iran and Cuba presents as an vilely outstanding manifesto of pure hatred. Against the State of Israel, and extended now with great clarity, to the world of the West, the free countries of the world, the liberal democracies, the secular world which is clearly "Islamophobic".

The declaration draft considers "counter-terrorism or national security", along with "freedom of expression" taking place in countries of the West, as "obstacles in hampering progress in the collective struggle against racism". The draft calls for "binding international standards" for the purpose to "take firm action against negative stereotyping of religions and defamation of religious personalities, holy books, scriptures and symbols."

It insists governments in the West must take steps to adopt laws "preventing and punishing" intolerance in "public and private life". The declaration obviously insists on re-shaping Western thoughts and values, to turn them to more accommodating and useful state interventions enabling totalitarianism. A state far more useful to Islamists and West-haters than what currently obtains.

Durban II is shaping up very nicely, under the auspices of the United Nations and its creature bodies. All the rights and freedoms valued in democratic societies, our cherished principles and values are to be speedily abolished for the far more worthwhile objective of satisfying the aggrieved resentment of countries accustomed to repression and totalitarian rule. Of the very real threats imposed by jihad against the West, of the demonization by Islamists of the West no word.

The agenda for the coming Durban II conference to be held in neutral Geneva in 2009, has been drafted. The isolation and excoriation of Israel as a world-class racist country has been expanded. This time Western nations also become targets, condemned as "Islamophobic". And there you have it, another event of great significance in the history of the United Nations.

Durban II promises to be a celebration of mediocre thought, a polished hate agenda, a validation for the failed nations of the world that in their numbers they have the UN's political, ideological advantage. Long may they fester.

Labels: Justice, Political Realities, Traditions, World News

posted by Pieface @ Sunday, October 26, 2008