06-19-2018, 08:00 PM
(06-19-2018, 01:08 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Reuters is reporting that the prez plans to announce that the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.
Our UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, made it official today at a State Department meeting. I wish our country wasn't disassociating from yet another global affiliation because some members of the U.S. government aren't getting their way and can't intimidate other member countries from holding their ground.
I think the UN Human Rights Council's recent condemnation of the Trump administration's child separation policy at the border probably contributed significantly to the timing of the withdrawal.
But, the writing has been on the wall for a while; Netanyahu has been pissed about being called out by the UN HRC for years. The U.S. withdrawal is another gift to Bibi.
Haley has commented several times over the last year that the U.S. feels the UN Human Rights Council is biased against Israel; that the UN is too harsh in its condemnation of Netanyahu's expansion into territory reserved for Palestinian settlement under a two-state solution, and too harsh in its condemnation of Israel's disproportionate use of force towards Palestinians. Haley isn't speaking for me with those sentiments, but she's definitely speaking for Trump and company.
Netanyahu has already publicly expressed his agreement and support of the U.S.'s withdrawal.