Israel Matzav: Obama to hug Gadhaffi at the UN?

Obama to hug Gadhaffi at the UN?

This is from Anne Bayefsky's preview of next week's United Nations General Assembly meeting.

Meanwhile, the Qaddafi problem is getting more “sensitive,” as Ambassador Rice has so delicately put it. Obama’s idea for a summit meeting, which seemed like a harmless international diversionary tactic in the midst of a domestic mess, has the potential to become an image maker’s worst nightmare. Libya is a member of the Security Council, and Qaddafi is looking for a hug (literally). So now Obama’s people are worrying about how to avoid him, or at least how to keep the cameras away when Obama embraces a man whom Americans understand to be a human-rights low-life extraordinaire. The irony is that it was Obama himself who issued Qaddafi the invitation to the council summit.

The president may also run into the colonel at the General Assembly podium the day before. On September 23 Obama will assume the dais and wax eloquent about the glories of the United Nations. The fantasy won’t last long, though. Libya is the president of this year’s General Assembly, resulting in a speaker order that makes Obama into Qaddafi’s warm-up act.

Heh. This sounds like a better photo-op than Obama bowing to Saudi King Abdullah.

Meanwhile, Israel Radio reported on Thursday morning that Prime Minister Netanyahu is hanging around long enough to attend President Obama's party (probably the same one to which Ahmadinejad will probably not be invited) and then is coming home. It seems that Netanyahu has been seated two seats away from Ahmadinejad and does not want any part of it.

Someone please remind me who the leader of the free world is....

Israel Matzav: Obama to hug Gadhaffi at the UN?

Israel Matzav: Abu Mazen's new friend

Abu Mazen's new friend

Maybe this is why Abu Mazen loves the General so much.

Israel Matzav: Abu Mazen's new friend

Israel Matzav: Englewood, New Jersey v. Gadhafi and the US State Department

Englewood, New Jersey v. Gadhafi and the US State Department

Writing in the New York Post, former Israel Radio New York correspondent Benny Avni sizes up the chances of the City of Englewood, New Jersey keeping Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi from (literally) pitching his tent in the town.

Standing in the other corner is Englewood's mayor, Michael Wildes. He estimates that the visit of the dictator and a terrorist could cost the town $20,000 a day -- and asks, "Why should I pay while he entertains his guests in my city?"

Can he prevent the visit? He says Khadafy has failed to file required town paperwork and violated several town building codes, and should get at least rhetorical support from politicians statewide.

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Israel Matzav: Englewood, New Jersey v. Gadhafi and the US State Department

Israel Matzav: Kadaffi does not have to be allowed in

Kadaffi does not have to be allowed in

Earlier today, I raised the possibility that the US has no choice but to admit Muammar Kadaffi to the United States under agreements with the United Nations.

Based on this post from Michelle Malkin, the answer is that there is no American obligation to admit anyone who wants to come to the UN.

FYI: P.L. 80-357, the United Nations Headquarters Agreement, covers the granting of visas to foreign leaders attending UN General Assembly meetings. But there is precedent for denying visas to jihadi thugs.

Reagan denied Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat, a visa to participate at the UN General Assembly in 1988 for his connections with terrorist acivities.

Of course, Reagan had a couple of things Obama doesn't have.

Israel Matzav: Kadaffi does not have to be allowed in

Israel Matzav: 'Not in My Back Yard'

'Not in My Back Yard'

Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, a well-known author and television show host, discovered last week that he is going to have a new neighbor next door to his Englewood, New Jersey home in September: Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafi.

Rabbi Boteach says he woke up one morning two months ago and noticed a disturbing sight on the grounds of his home. Eight large trees and a metal fence, which separated his property from his neighbor’s, were gone. The trees had been chopped down overnight, and the fence had been removed.

The perpetrators, claims Rabbi Boteach, were his neighbors, representatives of the Libyan government. The damage to his property and concurrent renovations on the neighboring home, a residence of the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations that had been in disrepair since the rabbi and his family moved to New Jersey a decade ago, led him to guess — correctly — why uncared-for property was suddenly being cared for: Libyan leader Moammar Kaddafi was coming.

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Israel Matzav: 'Not in My Back Yard'