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September 28, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-27/muslim-world-frays-un-obsessed-by-israel-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg.html

As Muslim World Frays, UN Obsesses Over Israel

(Bloomberg) Jeffrey Goldberg - Last week, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, shared with me a list of the diverse steps the country has taken to protect Israel from what she and President Obama consider to be scapegoating by the world body. The list includes U.S. opposition to the "dozens of biased resolutions" directed against Israel in the General Assembly, and also notes the number of times the U.S. has fought for the appointment of Israelis to various posts within the UN, from which they are, as a matter of course, excluded. It also offers a good illustration of the lengths the U.S. must go to in fighting the UN's pathological, detestable and intermittently comical obsession with Israel - one that prevents it from forcefully addressing many of the more dire problems confronting the Arab world. I support the creation of a Palestinian state, but the Palestinian cause isn't the world's only such cause. Many groups not lucky enough to have Jewish adversaries are seeking independence as well. They can't seem to get anyone's attention.

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