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	<title>Comments on: More Durban II Doubts</title>
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	<description>Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East</description>
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		<title>By: Michael B</title>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/more-durban-ii-doubts/#comment-2345</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It's refreshing to hear of a more concerted clear-headed quality, from a wider array of nations than merely Canada, the U.S. and Israel (whom I believe were the only ones who walked out of and adequately protested Durban I).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s refreshing to hear of a more concerted clear-headed quality, from a wider array of nations than merely Canada, the U.S. and Israel (whom I believe were the only ones who walked out of and adequately protested Durban I).</p>
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		<title>By: shriber</title>
		<link>http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/more-durban-ii-doubts/#comment-2343</link>
		<dc:creator>shriber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is another call to boycott Durban by Pascal Bruckner, the French Philosopher, on the grounds that:

"…Anti-racism in the UN has become the ideology of totalitarian regimes who use it in their own interests. Dictatorships or notorious half-dictatorships (Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Cuba etc.) co-opt democratic language and instrumentalise legal standards, to position themselves against democracies without ever putting turning the questions on themselves. A new Inquisition is establishing itself, which brandishes "defamation of religion" to quash any impulses of doubt, particularly in Islamic countries. And this at a time when millions of Muslims, particularly in Europe, want to distance themselves from bigotry and fundamentalism. In a reversal of values, anti-racism is being propagated by despots in the service of obscurantism and the suppression of women! It is being used to justify precisely the things which it was formulated to fight: suppression, prejudice, inequality.

In the hands of these powerful and organised lobbies, the UN is becoming an instrument of retrogression in the world, when it was created to promote justice, peace, and human dignity...."


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is another call to boycott Durban by Pascal Bruckner, the French Philosopher, on the grounds that:</p>
<p>&#8220;…Anti-racism in the UN has become the ideology of totalitarian regimes who use it in their own interests. Dictatorships or notorious half-dictatorships (Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Cuba etc.) co-opt democratic language and instrumentalise legal standards, to position themselves against democracies without ever putting turning the questions on themselves. A new Inquisition is establishing itself, which brandishes &#8220;defamation of religion&#8221; to quash any impulses of doubt, particularly in Islamic countries. And this at a time when millions of Muslims, particularly in Europe, want to distance themselves from bigotry and fundamentalism. In a reversal of values, anti-racism is being propagated by despots in the service of obscurantism and the suppression of women! It is being used to justify precisely the things which it was formulated to fight: suppression, prejudice, inequality.</p>
<p>In the hands of these powerful and organised lobbies, the UN is becoming an instrument of retrogression in the world, when it was created to promote justice, peace, and human dignity&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1710.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.signandsight.com/features/1710.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Paul Malin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Malin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;"... Spain, Austria, Belgium and the Scandinavians seem keener to try influencing the tone from inside"&lt;/i&gt;?

I bet they do. The main question in my mind is &lt;i&gt;"In which direction?"&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;&#8230; Spain, Austria, Belgium and the Scandinavians seem keener to try influencing the tone from inside&#8221;</i>?</p>
<p>I bet they do. The main question in my mind is <i>&#8220;In which direction?&#8221;</i></p>
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