(Times of Israel) Raphael Ahren - "The [UNHRC] report is so utterly misguided that it steps widely out of line in recommending a boycott that would harm Palestinians and Israelis alike," Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. "The authors seem so enraged that they forget they have no authority on such issues, and their hubris leads them to decree as states, rather than opine as individuals." Last March, the UN Human Rights Council decided to "investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including east Jerusalem." In response to the UNHRC's over-obsession with Israel, Jerusalem cut all ties with the Geneva-based body, ceasing all cooperation and barring its fact-finders from entering Israeli territory.
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