Anna Bayefsky (via Ed Lasky) presents compelling evidence that the US is going to let Durban II continue to condemn Israel without concerns for the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel aspects of the resolutions. From the American Thinker (h/t to Ted Belman),
What puzzles and bothers me about this development is that I cannot fathom what the Obama administration hopes to accomplish with this apparent shift in policy. I certainly hope it isn't just blatant (and ineffective) appeasement.Recall that the US boycotted the first Durban Conference because it was clearly going to become (as it did) an anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatefest. The second conference looked to become a repeat performance. Neverthe less, Barack Obama sent a team to this year’s planning conference, assuring people that his team would work to prevent the next conference from taking the same turn as Durban I.
They failed. Not only did the officials Obama send not object to a raft of anti-Israel and Holocaust-denying actions being taken and becoming part of the agenda but they are now peddling a fictionalized version of what did happen. In other words, they are lying.
Bayefsky concludes:
If the Obama administration does not immediately announce that its foray into the morass of Durban II has led it to decide this is no place for genuine believers in human rights and freedoms, there is only one conclusion possible. His foreign policy of engagement amounts to a new willingness to sacrifice Israel and an indeterminate number of American values for the sake of a warm welcome from the enemies of freedom.
What about that transparency? The openness ? The end of politics as usual? All promises made on the campaign trail? All forgotten-probably as soon as they were spoken. One promise does appear to be true: Change is happening....