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Among other countries with whom Israel
has good ties who voted for the measure
were Angola, Nigeria, Uganda, China,
India, the Philippines, Thailand, Chile,
Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
The other countries that abstained were
Guatemala, Costa Rica and Cameroon.
“This is a hypocritical council with an
automatic majority against Israel,”
Netanyahu said in response.
“This council ought to be ashamed of
itself,” he said. “Until today, the council
has made 91 decisions, 39 of which dealt
with Israel, three with Syria and one with
Iran.”
“One only had to listen to the Syrian
representative speak about human rights
at the council on Thursday to understand
how detached from reality it is,” he said.
Another proof of its distance from reality,
Netanyahu added, was the fact that this
week it facilitated the lecture of an activist
from Hamas at an NGO side event in its
building.
is based on “the murder of innocents,” he
said.
The Foreign Ministry released a statement
saying that the resolution was “yet
another surrealistic decision” from the
council that is more interested in
promoting a one-sided political agenda
than in 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 and to harm future chances to
reach an agreement through peaceful
means,” the statement said. “The
Palestinians must understand that they
cannot have it both ways: they cannot
enjoy cooperation with Israel and at the
same time initiate political clashes in
international forums.”
The statement said that had the
Palestinians truly been interested in
solving the settlement issue, they would
immediately resume negotiations on all
the core issues. “Their deliberate choice to
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