The United Nations on Friday, 16 Tammuz voted to adopt the United Nations Human Rights Council probe into Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s counter-terrorism military offensive against Hamas in Gaza during the summer of 2014. Forty-one countries voted to accept the report and five abstained; India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Macedonia. There was only one abstention, the United States, calling the report biased against Israel.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to the UN Human Rights Council decision:
“The UN Human Rights Council is not interested in the facts and is not really interested in human rights.
“On the day on which Israel was fired at from Sinai, and at a time when ISIS is committing vicious terrorist attacks in Egypt, as Assad slaughters his people in Syria and as the number of arbitrary executions per annum climbs in Iran – the UN Human Rights Council decides to condemn the State of Israel for no fault of its own, for acting to defend itself from a murderous terrorist organization.
“Israel is a stable democracy in the Middle East that upholds equal rights for all its citizens and acts in accordance with international law.
“Those who fear to openly attack terrorism will – in the end – be attacked by terrorism.
“The council that has hitherto adopted more decisions against Israel than against all other countries cannot call itself a human rights council.
“The State of Israel will continue to defend its citizens against those who call for its destruction and take daily action to achieve this goal.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Well Spoken!
A Gezunt in zein kup!
and five abstained; India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Macedonia. There was only one abstention, the United States, calling the report biased against Israel.
the united states voted against it (not an abstention)
right on benny
As an erlicha yid I would like to clarify a very important point,
It shouldn’t bother us that they condemned the state of Israel since we don’t believe it this state cause its against out Torah, it’s only yhe reason why they condem Israel, which is hate to yidisha kinder from all these countries that’s what we need to be mispalel that moshiach should come very very soon and take us out of this bitter goles