[AP/Forbes] Frederic J. Frommer - A congressional delegate to the UN is pushing for the U.S. to cut off funding for the UN Human Rights Council, saying the watchdog group's focus on Israel and failure to investigate other countries made it a "disaster." Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) said Wednesday the council "has essentially one issue on its agenda - Israel. You've got countries like North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe where you have state-sponsored brutality, and what we have is deafening silence." The council, based in Geneva, was created in March 2006 to replace the widely discredited Human Rights Commission. Last month, the new body continued its scrutiny of Israel while halting investigations into Cuba and Belarus.
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