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“Why are these principles no longer
relevant when it comes to” resolutions
concerning Israel?”
Israel’s foreign ministry said the resolution
“is yet another surrealistic decision from
the workshop of a council that is
instrumentalized as a tool to push for onesided
politicized moves instead of
promoting human rights.”
“While all over the Middle East, human
rights are violated in an unprecedented
scale, the HRC ridicules itself by dedicating
its time and resources to establish a
superfluous and extravagant body whose
sole purpose is to satisfy the Palestinians’
whims.”
Israel’s move to expand settlements has
been criticized by the international
community, which deems the action
illegal.
Nevertheless, in late February, an Israeli
committee legalized an unauthorized
settler outpost in the northern West Bank
and approved a plan for 500 new homes
there.
The move was condemned as
“deplorable” by the U.N.’s Middle East
envoy Robert Serry, who said it “moves us
further away from the goal of a two-state
solution.”
This week, U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay said
the expansion of Israeli settlements is
deeply linked to problems including
violence in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory.
More than 310,000 Israelis live in
settlements in the occupied West Bank
and the number is growing.
Another 200,000 live in a dozen
settlement neighborhoods in east
Jerusalem, which was captured by Israel in
1967 and annexed in a move never
recognized by the international
community.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/
03/22/202508.html
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