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Thursday, October 21, 2010

U.S. State Department's Duplicity at the U.N. Human Rights Council By: ANNE BAYEFSKY | The Weekly Standard

As the American midterm election campaigns head to the finish line, the Obama administration is trying to convince Jewish voters that its treatment of Israel is not as hostile as it appears. In fact, it’s worse. The U.S. State Department has now adopted a practice honed by Israel’s Arab negotiating partners – saying different things to different audiences.  The State Department is distributing for American consumption speeches that it claims were delivered in Israel’s defense at the recent session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.  But the remarks American diplomats actually delivered to the U.N. audience, which President Obama so desperately seeks to impress, were strikingly different.  More at:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/us-state-department-duplicity-un-human-rights-council_511446.html

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