House Resolution 867

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hr111-867

Why do we even pretend to be a member of the UN. Our nation could care less about International treaties, UN findings and reports. What is the point? Why do we even pretend?

Baird on HR 867: ‘This is about whether it is right to restrict the movements and hopes of more than 1 million people every single day’

http://mondoweiss.net/2009/11/baird-on-hr-867-this-is-about-whether-it-is-right-to-restrict-the-movements-and-hopes-of-more-than-1-million-people-every-single-day.html

“What will it say about this Congress and our country if we so readily seek to block “any further consideration” of a human rights investigation produced by one of the most respected jurists in the world today, a man who led the investigations of abuses in South Africa, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Kosovo, and worked to identify and prosecute Nazi war criminals as a member of the Panel of the Commission of Enquiry into the Activities of Nazism in Argentina?”

WHAT IT SAYS IS THAT THE U.S. CONGRESS COULD GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT UN REPORTS FINDINGS AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Those who voted ‘nay’ deserve some thanks, I think. They are:

Baird
Baldwin
Blumenauer
Boustany
Capps
Carson (IN)
Clarke
Clay
Davis (KY)
Dingell
Doggett
Edwards (MD) Ellison
Filner
Grijalva
Hinchey
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lynch
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern Miller, George
Moran (VA)
Olver
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Price (NC)
Rahall
Snyder
Stark
Waters
Watt
Woolsey

Here we go Code Pink confronts Congressman Berman today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aKn4mLSJw

good point. And those who voted “yea” need to be challenged. Asked specifically why they must be specific…cite passages of the report.

Ask your Rep to bring Judge Goldstone to a forum on the Report.

Maybe Rep Kucinich will do that he voted “no”

In the video clip

Medea Benjaman “this resolution sends the worst possible message and gives the U.S. no moral authority in dealing with the middle east process”

The interviewer says that that Judge Goldstone wants to testify before congress to rebut Congress Berman’s Ros Lehtinen and Ackermans resolution

Colonel Wright chalenges congress members “read the report” She also goes on and ask them to visit the Gaza and shares that only 8 congress people have ever visited the Gaza while 150 have visited Israel but not just gone 30 miles further to visit the Gaza
Col Wright “collective punishment ” of Palestinians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aKn4mLSJw

Though I doubt that it’ll be any comfort to you, I again want to say that the Resolution was less a repudiation of the report and more of an attempt to block UN action.

Leen, my comment in the ‘news roundup’:
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And David, this is BIG news as it shows exactly how the U.S. is being harmed (”That is, Israel says it can circumvent the President; it can circumvent the administration by going directly to Congress. And Netanyahu works the phones all the time with Congress. So, in a sense, it’s a kind of divide and rule.”) by Israel.

And if there is doubt regards what I say, see this.

AND note that the House refused to call Goldstone in to testify regards his report.

“”I think the UN report is unbalanced, and unfair, and inaccurate,” said Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.” ;so if others want to tell Hoyer what they think of his ability to ‘think’(note he doesn’t say anything about reading the report), they can write him here

Emmanuel,Hoyer,Schumer,Leiberman and many others ought to be required to register as agents of a foreign power because that is exactly what they are when it comes to Israel.

we are lucky at FDL to have our very own agent of a foreign power who posts the latest hasbara talking points.

which, in the case of the Goldstone Report, are especially weak and underdeveloped.

I agree agents of a foreign power. The last person to try to demand that Israel’s lobbyist register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act was Senator Fulbright

the Fulbright Endeavor
http://www.irmep.org/FULE.htm

“is being harmed (”That is, Israel says it can circumvent the President; it can circumvent the administration by going directly to Congress. And Netanyahu works the phones all the time with Congress. So, in a sense, it’s a kind of divide and rule.”) by Israel.”

Who said this? I think I heard a similar quote on Democracy Now today

Be sure to look at this clip. The Code Pink folks are doing the nation a great service

”I think the UN report is unbalanced, and unfair, and inaccurate,”

It is. Against the Palestinians.
And yes I have read it.

Right on target..’g’.

All I can say is that it’s a good thing that they don’t really represent us.

Yes, that’s where you heard it. It’s in the linky.

Every politician installed by AIPAC, is blackmailed by Israel. Every Single One.

got censorship?

Do you think this offer is one that they won’t dare refuse?
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Wow, just saw that my congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, voted nay. A very, very courageous stand for a representative from Brooklyn. I immediately picked up the phone and thanked her, emphasizing to her aide that I’m a son of Holocaust survivors, and that not all Jews are in lockstep on this.

Sigh. I like the idea of getting Goldstone to Congress, though.

No, you’re wrong. If anything this is more than a rejection of the Goldstone report, it is also an anything-goes endorsement of Israel’s ethnic-cleansing project (”support for the democratic, Jewish State of Israel” rejects the de facto multi-religious nature of Israel). Here’s the entire ‘resolved’ section of the resolution:

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) considers the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ to be irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy;

(2) supports the Administration’s efforts to combat anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, its characterization of the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ as ‘unbalanced, one-sided and basically unacceptable’, and its opposition to the resolution on the report;

(3) calls on the President and the Secretary of State to continue to strongly and unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ in multilateral fora;

(4) calls on the President and the Secretary of State to strongly and unequivocally oppose any further consideration of the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ and any other measures stemming from this report in multilateral fora; and

(5) reaffirms its support for the democratic, Jewish State of Israel, for Israel’s security and right to self-defense, and, specifically, for Israel’s right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors.

I’ve read it yet again and still think that the resolution is aimed at forestalling action against Israel at the UN.

Truman recognized the State of Israel, not the Jewish State of Israel.

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/israel/large/documents/israel30_01.jpg