tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post2751965998386728645..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Hallalujah I'm a BumFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-38267077384790594192011-11-07T17:10:03.739-07:002011-11-07T17:10:03.739-07:00BD: No question that the UN in the 1970s was a har...BD: No question that the UN in the 1970s was a hard pill to swallow for American Jews as well as Americans in general. But I certainly remember that my parents, who were big Israel supporters (and still are) differentiated between UNICEF and the nonsense generated by the General Assembly.<br /><br />Not to mention that the thing was revoked in '91 - only time that's ever happened.<br /><br />Just seems to me that some larger cultural shift moved against this. Dunno what, but there it is...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-74478190454765652582011-11-07T11:37:47.073-07:002011-11-07T11:37:47.073-07:00I'll concede on bureaucratic corruption, but f...I'll concede on bureaucratic corruption, but for the Jewish kids UN resolution 3379 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379 was definitely the end of the road for our Unicef boxes.Big Daddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-20740807519967415022011-11-06T06:45:52.335-07:002011-11-06T06:45:52.335-07:00"But not anymore.
And I have no idea why.&qu..."But not anymore.<br /><br />And I have no idea why."<br /><br />Because the Bircher's campaign was successful.Barry DeCiccohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735814736387033844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-83422736719112917062011-11-04T22:52:46.813-07:002011-11-04T22:52:46.813-07:00But they were there in the Sixties, too; the UN ha...But they were there in the Sixties, too; the UN has ALWAYS been a place for rhetoric and bushwa and bureaucrats. <br /><br />And loons. Sir Eric Gairy, the loon who ran Grenada back in the day, used to use his right as a head of state to go there once a year and talk about UFOs, a subject on which he was something of, well, a loon. And I seem to remember all sorts of right0wing whackadoodles ranting about the "U.S. out of the UN"...but they still got the coin out for the little kids shilling for UNICET.<br /><br />So I'm not sure if political shenanagans would have discredited UNICEF, since it has always been sort of divorced from the political business in the General Assembly...<br /><br />Not that I'm saying your theory isn't possible, but it seems a bit of a stretch.<br /><br />Hmmm.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-52554154261116883262011-11-04T18:58:09.666-07:002011-11-04T18:58:09.666-07:00Personally I quit doing it in the mid 70s when the...Personally I quit doing it in the mid 70s when the the Arabs forced through UN resolution "Zionism is racism" and Unesco started its anti-Israel shenanigans. I would guess that the whole thing fell into disrepute in the late 80s early 90s as the UN bureaucracy filled with people who were more interested in lining their pockets and ranting about imperialism than doing good.Big Daddynoreply@blogger.com