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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 Liberman considering withdrawing ambassador from UNHRC FM weighs severing ties with UN council after 36 to 1 vote to create fact-finding mission investigating effects of Sayfa 21
settlements on Palestinian human rights; PM says council "hypocritical" and "should be ashamed." Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Friday that he was considering withdrawing the Israeli ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council and severing ties with the body, following its establishment of a fact-finding mission to probe the effects of settlements on Palestinian human rights. Liberman added that he will convene a meeting in the foreign ministry to discuss the possibility that Israel will not cooperate with the council in their investigation. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reacted to the decision on Thursday, saying the council is “hypocritical” and should be “ashamed of itself.” It is the first such fact-finding mission by the council. The council, which met in Geneva, also approved four other resolutions against Israel, including one opposing its actions on the Golan Heights. By a vote of 36 to 1, with 10 abstentions, the council decided to dispatch the factfinding mission to “investigate the implications” of the settlements on “the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including east Jerusalem.” Only the US called the resolution biased and voted against it. It also rejected the other four resolutions. Europe was divided on the fact-finding During a meeting with President of Singapore Tony Tan Keng Yam, the foreign minster also said that he will try to persuade countries such as the United States to quit the council too. mission, with Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and Russia voting for the measure, and Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Moldova abstaining. Sayfa 22
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