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{weblog_name} - Obama’s Mistake
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Sadly, it’s not hard to find world leaders far less deserving of recognition than former U.N. Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) head Mary Robinson. Yet that in no way means that she should be among the 16 people rewarded by President Barack Obama with the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. There are solid reasons as to why nearly every major Jewish organization is speaking out against this announcement. What did Mrs. Robinson do that offends so many Jews and others in the pro-Israel community? • For starters, she presided over the anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist flavor that permeated the 2001 U.N. World Conference on Racism, the high profile so-called Durban Conference, named for its locale in South Africa. Under the leadership of then Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United States and many other civilized nations boycotted the event – after giving months… read more