(AP-ABC News) Jamey Keaten - The U.S. on Monday boycotted a Human Rights Council session focusing on Palestinian areas, saying the council's "long-standing bias against Israel" threatens the credibility of the UN body. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley denounced how Israel was the only country that is a permanent fixture on the HRC's calendar. "It is not Syria, where the regime has systematically slaughtered and tortured its own people. It is not Iran, where public hangings are a regular occurrence. It is not North Korea, where the regime uses forced labor camps to crush its people into submission. It is Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East."
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