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"It's a good day for the Jewish people at the United Nations," said Amy Goldstein, director of U.N. affairs at B'nai B'rith International. "It demonstrates that it is possible for the United Nations to seriously address the basic human rights of the Jewish people."

But just last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," an action which, according to the U.N. charter, would necessitate that Iran be expelled from U.N. membership, yet Iran is still fully, and proudly, a participating member of the U.N. and has suffered no set-back for its violently anti-Israel proclamations.

"When a president or a member state can brazenly and hatefully call for a second Holocaust by suggesting that Israel, the Jewish homeland, should be wiped off the map, it is clear that not all have learned the lessons of the Holocaust and that much work remains to be done," said the U.S.'s own U.N. ambassador John Bolton.

Immediately after the vote to pass the Holocaust resolution, Egypt's Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz nearly tripped over himself in his rush to complain that the day should commemorate all victims of genocide, "without discrimination on the basis of religious or ethnic background" (note the clever approximation of Western sentiment without any genuine understanding of the reasoning behind it), and not be limited just to victims of the Holocaust -- for heaven forbid that an Arab state should commemorate any loss suffered by Jewish victims alone. "We believe that no one should have the monopoly of suffering," he said.

Fine, set your bloggers free and we'll talk.

But the icing on the cake of irony came from Venezuela's Ambassador, who pointed to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II as examples of "devastating destruction" that occurred "with no justification" and should be included in the resolution's stance against human atrocities.

Wha-wha-what?!

So here I am, as I type this, watching the documentary series "Hell in the Pacific", which is a coolly (and horrifyingly) objective look at the battle in the Pacific, the savagery of the Japanese treatment of all non-Japanese people who had the misfortune of getting in their way, the terrifying specter of kamikaze pilots who were ordered to destroy themselves rather than allow an American advance, women and children who leapt from cliffs to their deaths upon sight of American troops (as their government had drummed the message of foreign monsters into the minds of their populace), and the "Never-Surrender, Fight Until the Last One of Us Is Dead!" cultural philosophy which led to America's decision to drop the atomic bombs -- yet some willfully clueless ambassador from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela (which wackily called for a ban on Halloween because it is a U.S. "game of terror" and whose current land-redistribution policy threatens to turn Venezuela into the next violence-riddled and starvation-shackled Zimbabwe) claims that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred "with no justification".

I think this is what's considered the photoshopper's approach to U.S. history. Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall . . . with no justification, of course.

OFF TOPIC:

In which Excitable Andy hilariously (if it weren't actually so predictable and sad) accuses other bloggers of going 'round the bend, conveniently forgetting his own "Watch Out, World -- I'm Off My Meds!" screech-fests regarding the 2004 elections, Abu Ghraib, Gay Marriage, Pope Ratzinger, President Bush, The Iraq War, Instapundit and did I mention Gay Marriage?

Glass Houses and all.

I've noticed that respectable news bloggers and serious Conservative pundits reference Andy-pants less and less as time goes on, and that Alexa shows his website's reach, rank and page views have been trending inexhorably south over the last two years. Compare his dwindling numbers to Michelle Malkin's steady upward surge in the blog polls and you just might see the motivations behind his snarky "MALKIN AWARD NOMINEE (for shrill right-wing hyperbole)" a bit more clearly.

And hey, his latest nominee for the Malkin Award, PowerLine, also bests Sullivan handily in the traffic trends department. Sour grapes, anyone?

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And is it just me, or does Warren Beatty's attempt to crash the Schwarzenegger rallies remind you of Arianna Huffington, circa 2003, desperately shoving her way towards a photo-op with the Arnold and knocking over his mic stand in the process?