Israel breaks off ties with ‘biased’ UN Human Rights Council

Mr Netanyahu’s cabinet is also considering imposing stiff financial penalties
on the Palestinian Authority after accusing its president, Mahmoud Abbas, of
being behind the council’s latest decision.

Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, drew a comparison between the
move and the killing of Jewish school children in Toulouse last week by a
gunman who said he was motivated by the plight of the Palestinians.

“We are dealing with al-Qaeda terror on the one hand and diplomatic
terror by Abu Mazen on the other,” he said, referring to Mr Abbas by
his alternative name.

For Israel, the issue of settlements is a particularly sensitive one after it
was accused of reneging on pledges it made during peace talks to freeze
Jewish construction on territory occupied by the Israeli army in the Six Day
War of 1967.

The Palestinian Authority says the expansion of the settlements, considered
illegal under international law, undermines the prospect of there ever being
a viable Palestinian state.

* Israel yesterday confirmed that Mohammed Merah, the gunman behind the
killings in Toulouse, had spent three days in the country in 2010 but said
it could not confirm French claims that he had been detained at the time for
carrying a knife.

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