"Staunchest Ally of Israel?" - Obama-Clinton counterterrorism forum: Even worse than you thought.(PJM).HT: Israel Matzav.Anne Bayefsky takes down the Obama-Clinton counterterrorism forum. You know, the one that is chaired by Turkey and in which Israel is not allowed to participate.
Part of what she writes is things we have seen before about how wrong it is that Israel is not a part of it, and how it shows how the Obama administration is less sympathetic than it ought to be toward Israel.
But then she comes up with this, which was new to me.
Even more disconcerting are the priorities and solutions that the front-line GCTF players have identified. The United Arab Emirates has been charged with creating one of the main “deliverables,” namely, an International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism. In the words of a State Department Fact Sheet of June 7, 2012, the UAE center “will focus on training, research, and dialogue and collaboration, to counter violent extremism in all of its forms and manifestations.”Related:
No wonder Ambassador Benjamin declared at the forum’s September launch that the Obama initiative would not “go through the same old rather sterile debates of what constitutes terrorism.” Every one of the “key” Muslim nations in the GCTF is a party to an international treaty called the Convention of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Combating International Terrorism. That treaty exempts from “terrorist crimes” “armed struggle against foreign occupation, aggression, colonialism, and hegemony, aimed at liberation and self-determination.” Consequently, terrorism against Israelis, or Americans accused of being in the wrong places, will not be appearing on the center’s agenda.
On the contrary, what the UAE means by terrorism in “all its forms and manifestations” was unequivocally spelled out by its UN representative, Ali Alshemail. Speaking at the General Assembly on October 6, 2010, he said:
[We] emphasize that elimination of the danger of terrorism requires us to address all forms and manifestations of terrorism without exception, including the state terrorism which violates the right of peoples to self-determination. …In short, Israeli civilians are fair game.Hmmm.......Mark my words: "One day Turkey will accuse Israel of terrorist activities and their BFF Obama will follow."Read the full story here.
[W]e support…a clear definition of terrorism and to differentiate it from the legitimate struggle of people under foreign occupation
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