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August 18, 2005
Bolton "Ruining" The UN
John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has blown the whistle on the UN's funding of anti-Israel propaganda for "palestinian" terrorists.
America's newly installed ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, labeled "inappropriate and unacceptable" the United Nations Development Program financing of materials bearing the slogan "Today Gaza, Tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem."Mr. Bolton said yesterday that the UNDP had failed to explain why it funneled money to the Palestinian Authority to back the production of banners, bumper stickers, mugs, and T-shirts bearing the provocative slogan as well as UNDP logos. . . .
The response from the UNDP was not sufficient, Mr. Bolton said yesterday. "Funding this kind of activity is inappropriate and unacceptable. We plan to raise the issue with UNDP and with others," he said in a statement to The New York Sun. In effect, Mr. Bolton expressed to the UNDP that the most serious problem for his office was not the logo, but the fact that the agency supported that message with its checkbook.
A UNDP administrator, Kemal Dervis, said it was “not at all acceptable” that the agency’s logo was placed on the propaganda--but that was not enough to please Bolton.
The response from the UNDP was not sufficient, Mr. Bolton said yesterday. “Funding this kind of activity is inappropriate and unacceptable. We plan to raise the issue with UNDP and with others,” he said in a statement to The New York Sun. In effect, Mr. Bolton expressed to the UNDP that the most serious problem for his office was not the logo, but the fact that the agency supported that message with its checkbook.William Orme, a spokesman for the UNDP, told the Sun by telephone yesterday evening, “We’ve seen Ambassador Bolton’s comments, and we are taking this matter seriously.”
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, shared Mr. Bolton’s sentiments. In a letter addressed to Mr. Dervis, he wrote, “It is inappropriate for the UNDP, as an impartial global development organization, to fund such a political and provocative message.”
Bolton is really destroying the UN isn't he? Looks like it's the liberal Senators who have egg on their faces.
Hat tip: WSJ Best of the Web
Posted by Aaron at August 18, 2005 04:37 PM
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Damn that Bolton guy....how dare he not just toe the UN-bashing-Israel line? We need to get him outta there and get someone that wants to go along with Hamas and Hezbollah. Where's Sean Penn when you need 'im?
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at August 18, 2005 05:08 PM
The UN is already ruined. All Bolton's presence there can do is improve it.
Posted by Steve at August 18, 2005 10:14 PM
N, no, no...Bolton is going to ruin the UN....Teddy said so.
Posted by Sarge at August 19, 2005 11:04 AM
Bolton IS going to ruin the UN. At least I hope so.
Just like Reagan ruined communism.
Posted by MJohnson at August 19, 2005 03:28 PM
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