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We remember, honor, mourn, remind . . . it’s great. Really. Ellison is mouthing the right sentiments but its just words. Better then the wrong sentiments I suppose. He is no better or worse than anyone else. The UN was established because the League of Nations was inadequate to rise to preventing the barbarism of the East and the degradation of the West. The word genocide was invented to describe the Holocaust, and since then we have calmly observed maybe at least a dozen more nationally sponsored mass murders, including the ones ongoing today in Africa and the Muslim world, and the train wreck in progress regarding the safety of the Jews in Israel.

And let me preemptively counter the expected point regarding a ‘genocide’ of so-called ‘palestinian’ Arabs by Israel. When a genocide occurs, there are less people than before. The Jews lost a third of their world population, and statistically a hundred percent of the local populations in the center of the storm. The “palestinian’ Arab population has increased six hundred to a thousand percent since Israel has been established.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/16/10 at 1:35 pm

samantha power has a great book about late 20th-century genocides, including an account of lemkin’s tireless efforts.  and, basically, no one gives a damn about genocide.  no one ever steps in until brutal images reach peoples’ television screens (serbian concentration camps, bodies washing down rwanda’s rivers into neighboring countries).  the UN was even stationed in rwanda as peacekeepers and did nothing as their own men were slaughtered.

Comment by Proton Soup on 4/19/10 at 5:18 pm

Why can’t people like Power be put in positions of influence to create change we can believe in? Wait a minute, Obama appointed Power on August 14, 2009 as Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council in the White House. How’s that coming along? Any slackening in rape and murder in Darfur? That is Power’s bread and butter issue after all. Anywhere? Modern day slavery? Terrorism? Genocidal threats from Iran? Hello-o-o-o-ooooo.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/20/10 at 8:46 pm

that’s interesting, i didn’t realize she was on the team now.  all i remember is her calling Hillary a monster and getting sidelined.  i may have to research it a bit now, and also wonder if she has influenced the policy on the israeli-palestinian conflict.  i’m guessing maybe since you seemed to have taken an instant dislike to her.

but in any case, take a gander at the book sometime, if only to check it out at the library.  she really doesn’t take sides with any administration so much as simply document history.  you may find the book is worth the notes and bibliography alone, even if you disagree with everything she said.

Comment by Proton Soup on 4/21/10 at 1:51 pm

Not instant at all. I have been seeing her name around for a couple of years (early in the campaign). See http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/samantha_power_and_obamas_fore_1.html dated 2/19/08. No that is probably not my source but it is representative of those I read at the time.

Over the past month, controversy has erupted over the issue of Senator Obama’s foreign policy advisers and the impact that they might have on a future President Obama’s policies toward Israel, and on American foreign policy in the broader region…

Senator Obama’s supporters have uniformly ignored the role and the views of Harvard Kennedy School of Government professor Samantha Power, who is very problematic regarding Israel, Iran, and for that matter, American supporters of Israel (see below)...

The problem for those who favor a strong US-Israel relationship is that Power seems obsessed with Israel, and in a negative way…

From Commentary:

Power is an advocate of the Walt-Mearsheimer view of the American relationship with Israel…

Here we have another window into the thinking of Power: Israel is accused in sensational press reports of a massacre in Jenin, and is subjected to severe international condemnation; Human Rights Watch finally gets out a report and says there was no massacre; the NYT reports this as its headline; and Power thinks the headline still should have been: Israel guilty of war crimes! . . .”

Revelations regarding Power’s views of Israel can be found in her new book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World, a biography of the UN official killed in Baghdad in a 2003 terrorist bombing…

She quotes the subject of her book—really a hagiography—calling the Israelis “bastards”.

Etc. etc.

See what I mean? This is in February of 2008, when politics still counted. I’m not cutting and pasting the whole thing, but Powers is just one of the whole Obama Gong Show of advisors and czars. I’m not saying she doesn’t have a high IQ and her book is not well polished and edited. But out of the context of detached intellectualism, she shows her bias and closed-mindedness and amorality.

And to save time, say that about me as well. Where I am coming from is that Israel is the only homeland the Jews have ever had or ever intend to have, and ever want. Greater Israel, the whole and complete Israel, whatever. Palestine has never been a homeland to any people other than the Jews, and the only responsible and honest position a truth seeker can take is that a projected Palestinian Arab state on any portion of the Jewish homeland is a farce and an obscenity. There is no legal, moral, historic, religious or any other reason or justification for it, and anyone like Power advocating otherwise is compromised regardless of her other accomplishments. Just calling a spade a spade. Isr there no room for principled disagreement? No,not considering the facts.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 4/21/10 at 10:33 pm

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