Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 8:12am
Today, Israel's newspapers report on yesterday's Durban II conference against racism, and particularly the tumult during Iranian President's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech. Israeli reports, overwhelmingly, describe yesterday's event as a success for Israel.
Maya Bengal writes in Ma'ariv:
A sense of relief permeated the corridors of the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem yesterday. For the past two years they have been troubled by the UN conference against racism which was scheduled to take place in Geneva yesterday. Yesterday was their day of truth.
Laughing at Ahmadinejad
It was delightful to see all those European delegates walk out of the United Nations anti-racism conference when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the microphone. The mass exodus seemed to thoroughly rattle him. Few of history's race-baiters have had the experience of being publicly ridiculed like that. Ahmadinejad was exposed before the entire world as the bumptious fool that he is.