Posted on 06/20/2005 10:33:30 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
The ongoing effort by John Bolton's Senate detractors to hold up his confirmation as UN ambassador is especially offensive to the Jewish community, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs declared today.
"It was Bolton's determined leadership and diplomatic mastery that, in 1991, caused the United Nations to finally revoke one of its most outrageous resolutions - equating Zionism with racism," said JINSA executive director Tom Neumann. "It was a truly Herculean task, but Bolton succeeded where many predecessors had failed because he made the effort and took the time to engage the UN members one by one.
"The Jewish community will always be grateful," Neumann noted. "We should remind our elected representatives of that."
Neumann described the Senate delay as "a blatantly orchestrated effort to destroy a dedicated, highly qualified public servant. Bolton's career is an open book, his achievements a matter of record. His style is a mix of diplomacy and resoluteness, with a strong moral sense of right and wrong. There is no valid reason that he should not have been confirmed weeks ago.
"John Bolton at the UN would continue the proud, standup tradition established by our two foremost past UN ambassadors, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick. The latter has warmly endorsed Bolton for the post, as have former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, Senator John McCain, and many others who clearly understand the need for UN reform."
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs is an independent, non-partisan educational organization established in 1976 to educate the public on national and international security issues, including the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability and the key role of strategic allies to promote democratic values in the Middle East.
....although it is starting to happen. ....slowly but surely.
If Kirkpatrick endorsed him....he must be good. She's the ONLY woman I would ever have considered as a possible candidate for the Presidency.
Another base of the Dems....Maybe he will get an up and down
Yes it is, I don't know why though. This is a nothing post. Bush could send stuffed animal to the UN and most Americans wouldn't give a damn.
Perhaps this is what has the Dems all in a twitter- as is obvious by now, the Dem party is mostly packed with liberals and gays, who believe that there is no such thing as better or worse, right and wrong, good or bad (unless your view is different than theirs), so they have a campaign to to make everything equal, which means minimizing everything positive and maximizing everything negative.
If they are against Bolton's nomination, then he must actually be a positive asset in which case we need to do everything we can to see that he not only gets affirmed, but gets positively affirmed.
“We will put no impediment in your way, and we will be down at the dock bidding you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset.”
—Charles M. Lichenstein, Reply to a proposal to move the United Nations from New York City (September 19, 1983)
“When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.”
—Jean Kirkpatrick, Speech at the 1984 Republican Convention
Always considered Kirkpatrick as wise as Kissinger.
From your point of view or from the Dem's POV? Just want to be clear.
Are you saying that if it were more offensive, the Jewish community might create a bigger stink then they now are, or are you saying that, since much of the Jewish community (correctly or not) is generally left-wing, and that that's the problem?
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
and it's the jewish dem lib senators who all vote in lockstep--when will they learn,,it's hard to be a conservative jew!
the DemocRAT theme song
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From what I have heard, most of the Senators that are Jews, have voted against Bolton.
They're Democrats. It's a party line issue. That's what I'd expect them to do.
Then that kind of contradicts the headline of the article then, doesn't it?
""The ongoing effort by John Bolton's Senate detractors to hold up his confirmation as UN ambassador is especially offensive to the Jewish community, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs declared today."
so in 2008, only 70% of Jews will vote DEM instead of 75%
For many liberal JEWS, judiams isnt their religion, liberalism is.
Given a choice between abortion on demand and Israels destruction and a ban on abortion and a safe and secure home land for the jews, many reform jews would choose the former
Hear Hear
I've never heard of this organization. My bet is that it's a recently formed right-wing, tiny Republican organization. The kind of folks I like, but in no way represent the "Jewish community."
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