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U.S. Slams "One-Sided" UN Probe Blaming Israel
(U.S. State Department) State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday: "As we have stated repeatedly, we firmly oppose the open-ended and vaguely defined nature of the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the situation in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, which represents a one-sided, biased approach that does nothing to advance the prospects for peace. The report of the Commission, released today, does nothing to alleviate our concerns....The existence of this COI in its current form is a continuation of a longstanding pattern of unfairly singling out Israel."