[Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs] Aharon Leshno-Yaar, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council: "I would like to ask my Palestinian colleague - Have you learned anything from the history of 60 years of conflict?...Don't you realize, by now, that in the real world - not the fairytale world of this Council - there can be no meaningful consensus without Israel?" "This resolution...does not reflect the realities of the Gaza Strip, and does no service to the cause of peace or to the human suffering of Palestinians in Gaza....Sadly, such resolutions will only embolden Hamas, weaken the trust of the Israeli public in the United Nations and this Council, and strengthen even further in the minds of Palestinians the illusion that the UN and its resolutions are the solution to their suffering."
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