May 25, 2024
No Tehran ‘Moment of Silence’ for US Policy Collapse on Israel
By Richard J. Douglas
First up was the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, who declared open season on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. A day later, the United Nations Security Council beclowned itself with a moment of silence for Iranian butcher Ebrahim Raisi. Finally, Ireland, Norway, and Spain embraced the two-state solution Netanyahu opposes. All these events strengthen the terrorist regime in Iran. None would have been possible without tacit Biden administration assent.
Pressured for months by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to drag PM Netanyahu into the ICC on phony genocide charges, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan faced a dilemma. Khan was aware of Ramaphosa’s responsibility for actual genocide of white South African farmers, so as the ICC’s anti-Netanyahu messenger, Ramaphosa wouldn’t do. Enter “human rights” lawyer Amal Clooney, a godsend for Khan who brought the glamour and saintliness that genocide-tolerant Ramaphosa lacks. Clooney is now the face of Iran’s proxy attack on Israel at the ICC.
Tehran has another reason to be grateful to Mrs. Clooney and Prosecutor Khan. Behold, who was not named for prosecution, together with Netanyahu, by Khan and Clooney: none other than Iran’s Butcher-in-Chief, Ali Khamanei. Instead, the Khan and Clooney team will pursue Tehran’s blood-soaked Hamas stooges, effectively exonerating Iran for its role in the October 2023 attack on Israel. Another huge win for Tehran.
A day after the ICC-Clooney extravaganza, it was revealed at the United Nations in New York that Russia, China, and Algeria suggested a moment of silence at the UN Security Council to honor mass-murderer Raisi. At the Council’s May 21st meeting, it fell to Mozambique’s luckless delegate, current occupant of the rotating Council presidency, to call on the Council’s fifteen members to stand and honor the dead Raisi.
And so they did. Not one delegate walked out. Not even senior U.S. Foreign Service Officer Robert Wood, sitting in the United States chair occupied over the years by U.S. permanent representatives Henry Cabot Lodge, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Bolton, and Nikki Haley. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, another career U.S. Foreign Service Officer and our current UN permanent representative, was nowhere to be seen when the Security Council and its members publicly debased themselves.
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