THE PLANK SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
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This just in:
A career diplomat from Bulgaria won a suspenseful and drawn-out race to lead the U.N. agency for culture and education on Tuesday, beating out an Egyptian candidate whose one-time threat to burn Israeli books had galvanized opposition....
In a fifth round of secret balloting Tuesday, Bulgaria's ambassador to France, Irina Bokova, defeated Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny for the leadership of UNESCO. The vote was 31 to 27, the organization's media office said....
The race was tight and closely watched, with a flurry of secretive diplomatic efforts between each round, allegations of fraud and an uproar over Hosny's candidacy. Critics raised Egypt's contentious record of cultural censorship and accused him of being anti-Israel.
Background on this charming man here.
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Now this guy strikes me as indeed a True Jew Hater. The world would be better off without them anywhere near an imprimatur...especially one on the world stage...to spread racist garbage like, “[l]et’s burn these [Israeli] books. If there are any, I will burn them myself before you.” and “Israeli culture is an inhuman culture; it’s an aggressive, racist, pretentious culture” george
- iambiguous
September 22, 2009 at 3:40pm