Obama and Israel to boycott 'Durban II'
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"Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have assured Jewish leaders that the United States will not take part in the so-called Durban II conference," "Professor Gerald Steinberg, who heads NGO-Monitor, one of the advocacy groups focusing on Durban II, said: ‘There is a tendency in the Israeli leadership not to understand issues of public diplomacy. Now that the government has announced it’s boycotting, it needs to go to the Europeans. They should be saying in every meeting with every official, how can we take you seriously as sponsors of the peace process if you participate in an antisemitic conference? It needs to be done in public, at the press conferences with EU leaders.’"