The U.N. Human Rights Council passed the resolution slapping Israel for not cooperating with the Goldstone committee report into the Gaza war, which accuses the Jewish state of all manner of war crimes.
(Among other things, the resolution calls on the UN Security Council to send the matter to the International Criminal Court if Israel doesn't toe their line.)
Interestingly, French delegates joined Israeli efforts to lobby European countries to vote against the report and even tried to get the vote postponed to allow them more time to persuade other countries to vote against it.
The U.N. Human Rights Council has long been the butt of jokes given its makeup -- last year, its was chaired by the shining exemplar of human rights, Libya. On Friday, among the other pillars of decency and democracy voting to criticize Israel were China, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan.
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