Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> The context with which we began, namely the UN
> conference, was not supposed to be about Israel. But that
> is what it was turned into, to no apparent benefit to anyone
> except practitioners of racism (including the present
> Israeli government).
Perhaps. But the current military, economic, and political position of Israel is so strong, the needs of the Palestinians so great, and the ruthlessness of both Israel and the U.S. so utterly without limits that any counteraction is clearly a matter of protracted struggle, and certainly part of that struggle will be the political isolation of Israel to the extent that support for it by any nation will have negative reverberations in _all_ of that nation's international and domestic affairs. Within that context, the huffy withdrawal of the U.S. & Israel from the conference, while no great victory, may be part of the process.
Carrol