Friday, August 31, 2007
A few days ago, Anne Bayefsky gave us a preview of the now just-passed conference by the notorious UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) [Say, why is it that "Palestinian Rights" always seem to involve destroying someone else's shit...or someone else, period?]: Notorious UN Committee Hosting Anti-Israel Event at European Parliament
There's lots of good background in that Bayefsky piece. Tundra Tabloids (from whom, the links) reports that this thing was so toxic that even Swedish and Finish MEP's had the good sense to keep their distance, with Polish MEP Bronisław Geremek quoted as saying:
'Israelis can count on Poles'...
YNet reports on the actual conference: UN summit: Boycott Israel
"The boycott worked for South Africa, it is time to do it again," Short was quoted as saying.
The security fence was also attacked by the European Parliament's vice president, Edward McMillan-Scott, who maintained that it would not bring peace to Israel. McMillan-Scott added that the European Parliament was committed to "a two state solution with safe borders," according to the Bnei Brith report of the conference.
Addressing the conference on behalf of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Leila Shahid, Palestinian Representative to the EU, read out a statement in which Abbas expressed satisfaction that the conference was hosted by the European Parliament, and lamented the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Pierre Galand, European coordinator of the Committees and Associations for Palestine, claimed that the conference was taking place despite pressures to cancel it, and blamed the Fatah-Hamas conflict on "Israeli policy"...
Rather than write my own post on this, I just linked to your excellent recap.
BHG