Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
Marine Le Pen had invited about 100 diplomats to a luncheon earlier this month during a visit to UN Headquarters in New York. But only four accepted: the envoys from Trinidad-Tobago, Armenia and Uruguay — who obviously are of no concern to her at all — and the fourth guest, Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor.
The application to the United Nations for admitting the state of Palestine has been submitted.
In a speech eerily reminiscent of Colin Powell's shameless assertion of Iraqi WMDs at the UN, President Obama produced another US presentation at the UN that reeked of hypocrisy and falsehood. Any credibility that the United States had has been lost.
The issue of Israel goes back to a curious nexus between the cause of the Crusades and to the Protestant guilt at the Holocaust. Germans are mostly Lutherans, and the intellectuals among the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust vowed to bring down Protestant Christianity as an immoral and racist herd psychology that was capable of any atrocity. In our opinion, it is not Protestantism or Martin Luther -- there is a certain Nordic tendency to racial and social purity that may be confused with Protestantism. It remains in check for decades, but when confronted with uncertainty, the Nordics band together and go overboard with their misguided cohesive dehumanisation of 'the other'. The Vikings did it, the English did it, Hitler did it, and now the Anglo-Saxon world did it again after 9/11.
History has a curious habit of coming full-circle. The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown Christian Terrorism.
Our hearts go out to the murdered children's families and other victims of the terrorist atrocities in Norway. The serene island of Utøya is now a living memorial to this horrible crime. As the unreal events unfolded, and pundits linked it to all types of events in the Islamic world, Muslims in the West prayed, 'Oh God, let it not be another Muslim.' It was not -- and it is at this point that the media, intellectuals and politicians have to sit back and take stock and ponder over the nature of terrorism. Simply describing other human beings as inherently bad and incapable of expressing themselves can backfire, and backfire quite badly. This time, it is not only the rise of Nazism in Germany, it is the rise of Nazism in the whole of the Western world, and as before, humanity cannot live with it. It has to be challenged.
Let us compare what we know about the alleged perpetrator and the myth of 'Islamic terrorism':
Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
The application to the United Nations for admitting the state of Palestine has been submitted.
The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown 
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