Do it Now – Support the Bolton Confirmation

Last week, we urged our New York members to go to the movies – it was in a good cause – and members elsewhere asked what THEY could do for JINSA. This week, tonight and tomorrow morning, JINSA members around the country can do something NOT for JINSA, but for our country and our allies abroad, particularly Israel. You can call your Senators and ask them vote for the confirmation of The Hon. John Bolton’s permanent appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

The vote will be Thursday.

Last week, we urged our New York members to go to the movies – it was in a good cause – and members elsewhere asked what THEY could do for JINSA. This week, tonight and tomorrow morning, JINSA members around the country can do something NOT for JINSA, but for our country and our allies abroad, particularly Israel. You can call your Senators and ask them vote for the confirmation of The Hon. John Bolton’s permanent appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

The vote will be Thursday.

Just to remind you why JINSA thinks the appointment is important, we reprint an excerpt from our first JINSA Report on Amb. Bolton’s nomination:

“Rarely do the words “United Nations” and “fun” occur for us in the same sentence; nor the words “United Nations” and “effective progress.” However, the nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the UN makes us hopeful for the first time in a long time that the institution in which so many hopes have been so wrongly vested for so many years might be better vested now.

“In terms of the United Nations, the repeal of “Zionism is Racism” is a clue to Mr. Bolton’s attitude toward the institution. He is not, as his critics claim, “anti-UN,” but rather unwilling to overlook the obvious problems of an institution with a democratic mechanism (a General Assembly with voting power) driven by undemocratic nations seeking to use the form for undemocratic purposes. The repeal was essential, he told a JINSA audience at the time, because even though General Assembly resolutions have no force of international law, they set the moral standard. It was wrong, he said, to have enshrined in the Assembly such a flagrant untruth. It was his mission to fix it.

“It isn’t clear that the UN can be “fixed,” but it is clear that the path to “effective progress” lies in a U.S. Ambassador to the UN with the ability to define discrete problems, an ability to form coalitions to resolve those problems, and most important, a clear moral compass defining democracy as a higher order of government. John Bolton does and he can and it will be fun to watch him take those skills to Turtle Bay on behalf of American interests and American allies, including Israel.”

Please call 202-225-3121

Ask for the offices of your Senators.

Ask to speak to the Senator’s Foreign Policy assistant. If that person is unavailable, ask for his or her voice mail and leave a message stating that you are a constituent. Politely and in brief, express your hope that the Senator will vote in favor of the confirmation of Ambassador Bolton because it is important to have him represent the interests of the United States in the United Nations.