Obama Administration Abandons Israel to UN Witch Hunt: Although Israel is required as a member of the UN to undergo Universal Periodic Reviews of its human rights record, it cut all ties with the 47-member HRC in March of 2012 over condemnation of Israeli community development beyond the Green Line.
The Obama Administration wants Israel to submit to the inevitable public censure it will receive from the HRC. Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, the U.S. representative to the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva, said, "We have encouraged the Israelis to come to the council and to tell their story and to present their own narrative of their own human rights situation."
