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NEW YORK (JTA) -- The U.N. Human Rights Council condemned Israel's "grave violations" of Palestinian human rights.
The resolution adopted Monday by the Geneva-based council also "strongly condemns" Israeli military actions in Gaza. It called for an end to the "launching of the crude rockets against Israeli civilians that resulted in the loss of four civilian lives" and the establishment of a fact-finding mission to investigate Israeli behavior.
The 33 states supporting the resolution included Russia, China, Argentina, Brazil and the Arab and Muslim members. Only Canada opposed the measure, while the European Union abstained, citing the failure to acknowledge Israel was responding to rocket attacks on its civilians. The United States is not a member of the council.
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The UN is almost worthless regarding it’s pronouncements. The Diplomates are incapable of non biased reason. It was Ok to rocket civilians for years in Israel but it is not good to retaliate for this wonton act of idiocy. Hamas deserves the killing it has gotten. The Palestinians in Gaza are merely pawns of a destructive Iranian policy for supremacy among middle east countries. Too bad they can not perceive this stupidity.
They should condemn Hamas for their grave violations of Palestinian human rights, not to mention Israeli rights.
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