Thank You, Mr. President

[Marc Peterson]

No sarcasm here. I am very pleased that the Obama administration has pulled out of the racist Durban II conference. The documents the organizers were putting together were truly despicable. With all the horrible dictatorships out there and Cuba, Libya and China on the panels, Israel was the only named country in the reports.

"White House aides told Jewish leaders on a conference call today that the United States will boycott the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism over hostility to Israel in draft documents prepared for the April conference.

The aides, including an advisor to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Jennifer Simon, and longtime Obama advisor Samantha Power, said the administration will not participate in further negotiations on the current text or participate in a conference based on the text, sources on the call said."