Following Scathing Report, Israel Considering Leaving UN Human Rights Council
Just days after the U.N. released its “Report of the Independent
Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict,” Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu—during a closed meeting of Israeli officials—
remarked that “Israel is considering whether or not to stay in the
Human Rights Council in light of the recent UN Gaza report.”
Flight or fight? It appears that because the report took
a critical stance in questioning Israel’s motives and actions during
last summer’s 51-day-bombardment of Gaza and the West Bank, Netanyahu is
more willing to bow out altogether than to confront the issues detailed
in the report head-on.
