Israel: UN council on settlements is biased

Published July 6, 2012 5:30pm ET



JERUSALEM (AP) — A U.N. Human Rights Council mission on West Bank settlements is “flawed and biased,” Israel said Friday, accusing the rights body of corruption for again singling out the Jewish state while “systematically ignoring massive human rights violations” elsewhere.

The U.N.’s top human rights body appointed three officials Friday afternoon to conduct a fact-finding mission on how Israel’s West Bank settlements affect the lives of Palestinians. The Council president, Uruguay Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, named three women to the panel: Christine Chanet of France, Unity Dow of Botswana and Asma Jahangir of Pakistan. Dupuy Lasserre said their mission will be to look how the Israeli settlements impact “the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people.”

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