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Sudan’s President Shows Up at Arab Summit

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Posted on Mar 30, 2009
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at the opening session of the Arab Summit in Doha, Qatar, on Monday.

Despite the arrest warrant recently issued for him by the International Criminal Court, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has made a defiant move by showing up in Qatar to attend the 21st Arab League summit meeting, at which United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was also slated to appear.

Although The Guardian suggested that al-Bashir’s attendance was somewhat unexpected and potentially embarrassing for the league, Al-Jazeera reported that attendees ended the first day of their meeting on Monday with a show of solidarity for al-Bashir.

The Guardian:

His arrival in the Qatari capital, Doha, seemed set to embarrass the Arab League at its annual conference, though the league is also expected publicly to urge the international criminal court to drop the unprecedented charges.

It had been thought until almost the last minute that Bashir would stay away. His presence will be a extraordinary snub to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who is scheduled to attend today’s opening session.

Last week Bashir paid brief visits to neighbouring Egypt, Libya and non-Arab Eritrea, but his presence in Doha aligns the 22-member league with his pariah status over alleged atrocities in Darfur.

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By Inherit The Wind, March 31 at 7:14 am #

IOW, the people who have done EVERYTHING over the last 61 years to encourage the Palestinians to keep making war, even when peace was at hand, who put their hands over their hearts and weep for the suffering of the Palestinians, all stand side-by-side defending one of the worst and most murderous psychopaths alive. A true sadist who takes pleasure in knowing that women are being raped in front of their dead husbands and either killed or impregnated with “Arab” semen.

Yes, that’s Bashir’s thing—to have the rape-created children be part Arab and therefore part of his Arab community. It’s a stated policy, a well-documented racist policy.

And they are all trying to tell the world Bashir is a hero. I’ve been telling you all here for a year or two, who were claiming Israel was the worst in the world, that Sudan in Darfur makes Gaza look like a cakewalk.

I’ve told you the Arab leaders were all lying hypocrites who didn’t give a DAMN about the Palestinians, just using them as a diversion from their own evils—it’s OK to go onto the streets of Cairo or Khartoum and vent your rage at Israelis, just so long as you don’t vent it at Mubarak or Bashir.  Now they’ve all proven it.

NOBODY leading a nation in the Middle East actually gives a shit about the Palestinians, which is really, really terrible and despicable, but also really, really obvious, because they don’t give a shit about the victims in Darfur, except, ironically, the Israelis.

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