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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062401373_pf.html
A Shadow on the Human Rights Movement
[Washington Post] Jackson Diehl - In Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council - established a year ago in an attempt to reform the UN Human Rights Commission - listened to reports by special envoys condemning the governments of Cuba and Belarus and then abolished the jobs of both. While ending the scrutiny of those dictatorships, the council chose to establish one permanent and special agenda item: the "human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories." In other words, Israel, alone among the nations of the world, will be subjected to continual and open-ended examination. In the council's first year, eleven resolutions were directed at the Jewish state. None criticized any other government. Is there a point at which a vicious and unfounded campaign to delegitimize one country - which happens to be populated mostly by Jews - makes it unconscionable to collaborate with the body that conducts it?