t's hard to imagine a more dramatic "welcome" to Ambassador Bolton than the one that confronted him at the United Nations this week. The man who rose to political and policy fame by leading the effort to repeal the U.N. resolution equating Zionism and racism was met upon his return to Turtle Bay by the disclosure, pressed by an enterprising American Jewish Congress, that the world body has been siphoning the taxpayers' money into funding Palestinian Arab propaganda designed, in connection with Israel's disengagement from Gaza, to incite Palestinian ambitions to go on to take Jerusalem.
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Mr. Bolton recognized a dodge when he saw it, letting the UNDP know, as our Jacob Gershman put it in his dispatch yesterday, that the most serious problem for his office was not the logo, but the fact that the agency supported that message with its checkbook. In other words, it's not the form but the substance. American law calls for Jerusalem to be recognized as the undivided capital of Israel. William Orme, a spokesman for the UNDP, told The New York Sun, "We've seen Ambassador Bolton's comments, and we are taking this matter seriously." So his own personal credibility as well as the Development Program's is on the line now. Our guess is that before this fracas is over, Congress is going to have to cut back funding for - and insist on more rigorous oversight of - the UNDP.
Aug 19, 2005
This is why Bush pushed for Bolton
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