Israel cuts ties with UN human rights body

[MindMover]

Source: AlJAZEERA

Israel has said it has severed contacts with the UN Human Rights Council after the group's launch last week of an international investigation into Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

The decision, announced by a foreign ministry spokesman on Monday, meant that the fact-finding team the council planned to send to the West Bank will not be allowed to enter the territory or Israel, said spokesman Yigal Palmor.

"We are not working with them anymore," Palmor said about the Geneva-based forum. "We had been participating in meetings, discussions, arranging visits to Israel. All that is over."

The international investigation was launched on Thursday, with the United States isolated in voting against the initiative brought by the Palestinian Authority.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/03/201232614191837437.html

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You cannot lead a horse to water.........

[lsewpershad]

1. And the tail wags the dog

Israel makes the US look really bad.

[hack89]

2. Don't blame them. Look at some of the current members

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/membership.htm

When you have major human rights violators on the Human Rights Council you know things are pretty fucked up.

[MindMover]

3. I totally agree with the pretty f'd up part.....

It is definitely a strange world we live in........

[atreides1]

4. You have a point

But for Israel to deny that anything is wrong with the current situation involving the West Bank...is delusional at best!

And the more they try to hide it, the more they will belong on that same fucked up council!

[TomClash]

5. Then they should feel right at home nt

[lumpy]

7. What countries belonging to the Human Rights Council are affiliated with

human rights violations? I want to verify my thoughts.

[EFerrari]

8. You mean, besides us, right? n/t

[Mosby]

9. did you look at the list?

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2012 includes Russia, China, Cuba, Jordan, Hungary and Saudi Arabia.

[hack89]

10. Did you look at the link?

how many of those countries are non-democratic dictatorships or theocracies?

[Laughing Mirror]

11. You are alluding to the United States, surely

Aren't you? It's impossible to deny that human rights violations by the United States, just say in the past 10 years, far exceed any other country's on that list.

[geek tragedy]

12. Chechens and Tibetans and women Saudis would beg to differ.

If they could without being shot, imprisoned, or lashed.

[Laughing Mirror]

15. How many hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians would beg to differ with you

not to mention those tens of thousands in Afghanistan and Pakistan who happened to be in the way of your drones and bombs?

What is the actual body count, you and I don't know. And how could we? Because those people of course don't count, do they? Perhaps they are not people in your eyes. They just happen to be in the way of spreading "democracy."

Also, let's keep our blinders on as regards Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, about kidnapping people off the street and transferring them to secret locales in countries where they will be tortured, about secret surveillance of you and me ... well the list of human rights violations in this country is pretty lengthy, as you can see, but refuse to apparently.

[nanabugg]

6. Israel does not want human rights investigation. See no evil, tell no evil. nt

[MrBig]

13. No Surprise

It's all corrupt

[Redneck Democrat]

14. Israel is Kicking Out the Investigators?

So when do we begin bombing?