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Alan Baker

Amb. Alan Baker is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

The accusers ignore the fact that the Israeli public suffer from ongoing and daily acts of terror committed by Palestinian and Islamist fanatics.
Attempts to do so are artificial and contrived to the point of being willful and malicious.
The repeated Palestinian assaults on religious sites, which under the Oslo agreements the P.A. is supposed to prevent, demonstrates that the responsibility for protecting them must remain with Israel.
Attempts to draw comparisons between the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Palestinian issue are patently false, malicious and manipulative, and should not be entertained.
The underhanded and deceitful methodology and tactics used in the organization’s recent report are unbefitting of an international organization that claims to be apolitical, fair and objective.
Europe cannot maintain its status of witness to the Oslo Accords while at the same time systematically undermining and encouraging the Palestinians to violate them.
In establishing the “ongoing, independent inquiry commission,” the Human Rights Council is abusing the bona fides of U.N. member states.
Rejoining the organization would imply an indirect legal recognition of Palestinian membership as a full state, which would not be in accordance with international law.
The so-called “right” does not appear in resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) or in Israeli-Palestinian peace-process documentation.