It’s been only a matter of days since the U.N. Human Rights Council issued its five latest anti-Israel resolutions, bringing the number of censures of Israel to 26 out of 32 resolutions censuring countries all told–you do the math–but when “engagement” is the object, bad behavior is apparently no impediment. The U.S. government has announced it is ditching Bush policy and will run for election to a seat on the Council in May. That body’s record on human rights abuses has been risible at best, and unconscionable at worst. As U.N. Watch reports:
Employing Obami mind tricks, the State Department has persuaded itself it will do good for the world’s victims by sending an emissary–Chas Freeman is available–to the Council’s Geneva headquarters. But will mind tricks be sufficient to turn the butchers of Sudan and Zimbabwe?
