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In reply to the discussion: UN human rights report on Israel paves way for sanctions, further isolation [View all]another_liberal
(8,821 posts)7. I am not . . .
I am not an enemy of Israel, though I do dislike her current leaders and abhor some of their policies. It is also true I believe very strongly that those leaders are making a terrible mistake by boycotting this Human Rights Review. I understand they don't think some of the UN Human Rights Council members are qualified to be on that panel, and while they may be more right than wrong in their opinion, it makes no difference. Boycotting the review entirely will be seen by most of the World as tantamount to pleading guilty as charged. Surely going to the review and actively defending their policies would have been a strategy more likely to benefit their country? The Netanyahu government, one must conclude, has committed a serious error.
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UN human rights report on Israel paves way for sanctions, further isolation [View all]
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
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