Thursday, March 25, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
US backs Israel at UNHRC - 'The US was the only country at the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against all three anti-Israel resolutions, which were approved Wednesday in Geneva. It was also the only country to oppose a UNHRC resolution in support of the Palestinian right to self determination. In the last weeks America's relationship with Israel has been strained. But in Geneva, the US took the council to task for its treatment of Israel...'
An interesting contrast with other events. Problem is, they were unfruitful and in fact were impotent votes, at least so in terms of the resolutions being passed. And it was a subordinate U.S. ambassador - Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe - who was doing the arguing.
Substantive challenges with higher level impetus behind them, or little more than CYA demonstrations?