Italy will boycott Durban 3

Italy's government has made a wise decision:

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced on Friday that Italy has decided to boycott the Durban III Conference to be held in September due its anti-Israeli nature.

In a statement, Frattini made clear that Italy would boycott the conference because there are no minimum conditions for participation in the conference. He noted that previous conferences were used as an arena to hurl accusations at Israel rather than discussing the struggle against racism, discrimination and xenophobia.

Frattini noted that Italy chose not to attend the second Durban Conference in 2009 for the same reasons.

This is very good. Now if only more countries would just pull out and set a proper example, and not take part in a conference that for all we know could even be hostile to the USA as well.