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Thanks Nachum.

For the very first time, the U.N. Security Council has invited the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to "brief" the Council specifically on the subject of Israel and the commissioner's list of trumped-up sins. Though the U.S. is a veto-holding power, the extraordinary move has full American approval, despite the fact that the global soapbox will be handed to Navi Pillay, a notorious anti-Israel partisan... the deal to sponsor an Israel-bashing session at the highest levels was a trade-off for having the high commissioner brief the Council on the subject of Syria... France wanted a high commissioner briefing on Syria to generate more noise. Council member Pakistan said no, unless Israel was on the chopping block, too. The Russians also said no, unless Libya was on the table... to obstruct stronger measures on Syria... the Obama administration... caved, agreeing to a spectacle which casts Syria and Israel as moral equals.