“U.S. Rebukes U.N. Official for Sharp Words”

Aaron Keyak — March 12, 2009 – 11:16 am | Barack Obama | Foreign Policy | Israel | Stop the Smears Comments (1) Add a comment

The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, was rebuked by the administration of President Barack Obama for “his frequent public attacks against the United States and Israel are undercutting the standing of the world’s most representative body.”

In the past, “D’Escoto also has accused Israel of ‘crucifying our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ and labeled Israel an ‘apartheid state.’ He has called for a boycott of Israel as a reaction to the Jewish state’s incursion into Gaza.”

Supporters of the President are not surprised by these kinds of actions, but it will certainly be interesting to see how Obama’s right-wing critics will spin this rebuke to show that this administration is somehow anti-Israel.

Don’t think they can do it? See their response to the President’s Durban II policy.

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