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Obama said in Trinidad, after attending the Summit of the Americas, that the language of the draft declaration prepared for the conference

“raised a whole set of objectionable provisions” and raised the risk of a repeat of the 2001 Durban Conference, “which became a session through which folks expressed antagonism toward Israel in ways that were often times completely hypocritical and counterproductive.”

“We expressed in the run-up to this conference our concerns that if you adopted all of the language from 2001, that’s not something we can sign up for. Our participation would have involved putting our imprimatur on something we just didn’t believe in,”

You “can’t sign up for it”? You “don’t believe in it”? How about a condemnation in strong terms of its vileness, its lies, its unfairness, its immorality, its racism etc.

The best he could say of Durban I was that it became a session through which “folks expressed antagonism toward Israel in ways that were often times completely hypocritical and counterproductive”

“Counterproductive?” That’s it?

What’s with the “folks”?

Ted Belman is a retired lawyer and Editor of Israpundit.com.  He made aliyah from Canada in 2009 and now lives in Jerusalem.

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