[Boston Globe] Jeffrey Robbins - On the subject of Israel, the die is always cast at the Human Rights Council, for reasons that have everything to do with geopolitics, and little to do with human rights. Dominated by the overlapping trifecta of the Organization of Islamic Conference, the formidable purchasing power of petrodollars, and a political war against Israel that continues to metastasize, the Council regularly devotes most of its agenda to denouncing Israel. Therefore, the Council's most recent denunciation of Israel's latest attempt to stop those pledged to annihilating it from rocketing its civilians as "crimes against humanity" was unsurprising. What exactly should Israel be expected to do in the face of the unrelenting assaults on its civilians? Should it really be required to endure them indefinitely, and to do nothing to stop them, because to do so will, thanks to the positioning of those launching the assaults, endanger civilians? Is there really any country that would be expected to do so? The writer was a U.S. delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission during the Clinton administration.
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