Posted on 03/23/2015 8:29:38 PM PDT by Nachum
When the United States did not speak at Monday's UN Human Rights debate about possible Israeli war crimes during the recent Operation Protective Edge, news service Reuters was quick to point out that it was part of Obama's threatened reevaluation of the relationship with Israel. If they had asked the U.S. or Israeli delegation they would have learned it was part of a coordinated plan between the two countries to snub the Human Rights Council.
According to Reuters it was to be the first of Barack Obama's "punishments" directed toward Israel.
Initially, Reuters reported that the US decision was unprecedented, eliciting a denial from the Israeli foreign ministry. "Israel asks all its friends not to speak at the annual debate" so as not to accord the session any importance, the foreign ministry said. "The report is not true. The Americans don't participate annually in the debate."
After the initial report became big news in Europe and the Middle East, Reuters revised its story and admitted its mistake:
The decision not to talk since then was part of an agreement in October 2013 when Israel resumed participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council.
In Israel, the Foreign Ministry said that the annual debate "negatively singles out Israel and Israel every year asks its friends on the council not to express themselves".
(This story updates throughout to show move was planned and not related to current U.S.-Israel tensions, adds Israel comment, EU).
At approximately the same time, Keith Harper, the U.S. Ambassador to the Human Rights Council issued the following statement to clarify why the U.S. did not participate in the debate:
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I saw the story as it developed today. I just thought they had an IDIOT REPORTER ... :-) ...
I was thinking about posting it this afternoon, but I figured it wasn’t worth it, as I had more important stories about Egypt, Israel, Netanyahu, Obama’s attacks on Israel, etc ...
I will never trust al-Reuters.
Not since Sept of 2005, when we found an al-Reuters newsflack embedded with al-Qaeda in Ramadi.
That was one of the scores of the whole deployment: physical evidence that the MSM was in bed with the Mooj.
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