(Ha'aretz) Nachman Shai - The UN Human Rights Council represents the very depths to which an unrepresentative, undemocratic international body can sink. Although having been reconstituted and renamed only six years ago because of the total illegitimacy of its predecessor, the Council immediately relapsed into its old ways. It grants immunity to the worst human rights violators on Earth. I could not agree more with the decision of the Israeli government to withdraw from this particularly disgraceful UN body. I find it appalling and hypocritical in the extreme that the Council's "fact-finding mission" report would dare call for sanctions against Israel, even as they routinely ignore the grossest human rights violations of many of its member states, half of whom deserve to be investigated well before Israel. There are appropriate times and occasions for engagement with international bodies, and there are also times for saying, "Enough!" This is one of those times. Israel will not engage in discussions about a report calling for sanctions against our country. The writer is a member of Israel's Knesset (Labor).
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