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Thanks Aryeh for the follow up email below, This is extremely important news and very telling about our current administration's interest in appeasing. Please see below - this is a disturbing development considering that the Human Rights Council has been focused on everything except Human Rights!

One item that is possibly the most important thing that happened this week related to this topic that I didn't see on your list:

US joined UN Human Rights Council this week, reversing Bush policy. This Council is very much pre-occupied with analyzing Israel "atrocities" despite the analyzers/members being countries like China, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Russia, Saudia Arabia etc. There are different factions in Israel and abroad for and against US joining but right now this Council is like the Darfur talks, bash Israel and no one else. Certainly needs monitoring. Here's what the Jpost said:

The council was established in 2006 as a successor organization to the UN Commission on Human Rights. It was a body founded in 1946 that was widely seen as dysfunctional and discredited by its pre-occupation with Israel and the inclusion of countries like Sudan and Zimbabwe, despite accusations of rampant human rights abuses against their own citizens.

The current council has attracted many of the same criticisms, but is due for a review in 2011 - one factor that drove the US decision to seek membership now, Rice said.