The praise and protection of racists!!

Original Post Date: 2001-09-05 Time: 12:56:35  Posted By: Jan

This was sent to me by an American. How true this is! Its good to see people
aren’t blind! So much truth in this article. If only more people could see as
clearly as this man.

By Robert Tracinski

The UN World Conference Against Racism has met and taken up its
primary agenda: the praise and protection of racists.

The tone was set on the first day of the conference, when that
paragon of progressive politics, Yasser Arafat, took the podium to condemn
Israel as a “racist” state that “practices racism and racial
discrimination, that adopts ethnic cleansing.” He called upon the meeting
to issue a condemnation of Israel, a cause backed by many in attendance (151)—
not only the Arab states, but also Jesse Jackson and other Western
leftists.

Remember that it is Arafat himself who instigated the very
violence he is condemning. He sent Palestinian rioters into the streets
after Israel made extraordinary concessions to secure peace. And in case
anyone has forgotten, Arafat’s rioters initially targeted the Temple
Mount, the Wailing Wall, Joseph’s Tomb, and other Jewish religious sites.
This choice of targets was motivated by the religious bigotry of Islamic
fundamentalism, which seeks to drive all non-Muslims out of the Middle
East.

And while he accuses Israel of racism, Arafat-controlled
Palestinian television has broadcast repeated slurs against Jews, who,
according to an oft-repeated phrase, “the Koran refers to as monkeys and
pigs.” This is usually followed by some expression of benediction upon any
Palestinian who kills a Jew. In a shocking example of press collusion, the
content of these broadcasts is rarely reported in the mainstream American
media.

But the most damning evidence of Arafat’s racist agenda is his
tolerance of terrorism. The avowed goal of groups like the Islamic Jihad
is not to get a better deal at peace negotiations, but to derail any peace
talks with Israel. The goal of Palestinian terrorism is not to achieve a
military or even a political end. The goal is simply to kill Jews,
indiscriminately, as an end in itself. This is what Arafat has tolerated,
encouraged and practiced for his entire career.

It is a fine achievement for a dyed-in-the-wool racist to
self-righteously mouth condemnations of racism (151)— and be applauded by the
world. But this merely set the tone for the rest of the UN conference,
which has scared off every respectable nation (151)— not just the U.S., but
most of Europe (151)— leaving, as its most prominent attendees, Arafat and
Fidel Castro.

At one of the sessions, South African President Thabo Mbeki railed
against the alleged wrongs done by European colonialism and demanded
reparations to African nations. Yet meanwhile, in Zimbabwe (151)— formerly the
British colony of Rhodesia (151)— a very different story is being played out.
Gangs of thugs backed by dictator Robert Mugabe are conducting a campaign
of terror against the nation’s white farmers and seizing their land. The
farmers’ crime is that their ancestors settled in a sparsely populated,
undeveloped territory and turned it into productive farms, which employ
many black workers (151)— who happen to form the backbone of the opposition to
Mugabe’s regime. There has been no discussion, at the UN conference, of
Mugabe’s racist atrocities.

Many at the conference also back reparations for slavery in the
U.S. This is the perverse theory that whites today (151)— who bear no
responsibility for slavery (151)— should be made to pay for what other whites
did 135 years ago. It is an attempt to codify the assignment of
collective, racial guilt. Yet this is promoted, self-righteously, as a
battle against racism.

Such hypocrisy should be no surprise, because it is typical of the
United Nations. These are the same folks who recently refused to allow the
United States onto the UN Human Rights Commission (151)— while installing a
representative from Sudan, an Islamic theocracy that tolerates the
practice of slavery. The UN is an organization that claims to be devoted
to world peace and opposed to aggression while it gives veto power to the
world’s worst aggressors and largest dictatorships; while it refuses to
recognize a relatively free nation, Taiwan, in order to please the
Communist dictators of China; while it gives equal votes in the General
Assembly to every cheap little dictatorship on the planet; and while it
holds conferences allegedly dedicated to fighting oppression, whose most
prominent participants are murderers.

Ayn Rand once compared the UN to an anti-crime commission that
includes the community’s leading gangsters. The UN’s various commissions
and conferences are beginning to look more like anti-crime commissions run
by the gangsters.

The U.S. has wisely chosen not to send a high-level delegation to
the conference of racists. But we should go further: We should withdraw
any cooperation with the vicious fraud that is the United Nations.

If you are interested in posting or reprinting any of Mr. Tracinski's
columns, contact Creators Syndicate at [email protected]. COPYRIGHT 2001
CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

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