Ending boycott, Israel to attend UN human rights hearing.

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After a year-and-a-half in the cold, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday decided that Israel would end its boycott of the UN Human Rights Council and attend a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.

Then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman ordered the severing of Israeli ties with the council in March 2012 after the international organization said it would probe how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of Palestinians.

“We will attend” the Universal Periodic Review held in Geneva, an Israeli official told AFP. Another Israeli diplomat tweeted the news, adding that “it’ll still be an unfair Council (see item 7) but we’ll do our part.”

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Haaretz on Sunday reported on a missive from German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle’s to Netanyahu, saying failure to appear in Geneva would have diplomatic repercussions that its allies could do little to mitigate. According to the paper, Australia, Canada, the US, Spain, France and Germany have all urged Israel to rejoin the council, claiming that it set a poor precedent for dictatorships such as Syria, Iran and North Korea.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ending-boycott-israel-to-attend-un-human-rights-hearing/

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. I'm actualy glad that Israel has reconsidered their move.

It wouldn't help them to stay away and sulk.