Saturday, June 19, 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.
Anne Bayefsky: The UN's war on Israel continues -- and the U.S. is silent - 'Today the UN "Human Rights" Council appointed a notoriously anti-American and anti-Jewish figure to his second prominent UN position. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who served as the President of the UN General Assembly from 2008 to 2009, was elected by acclamation to the Council's lead advisory body, the Council Advisory Committee. The Obama administration representative, Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, remained silent as the nominee of the Group of Latin America and Caribbean Countries was gaveled through without opposition...'