SITTING OUT THE ISRAEL-BASHING MARATHON
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, with members from 53 states, has adopted a resolution criticizing Israel's "violation" of human rights law and reiterating Palestine's right to "resist". (If you're Israel, are you going to take a how-to course on human rights issues from Bahrain? Libya? Sierra Leone? No, I thought not.)

However! There were seven member states that refused to vote in support of the resolution, and five brave enough to actually vote against it. (Peru was absent for the ballot.) The abstentions were:

Burundi. Cameroon. Croatia. Italy. Japan. Poland. Uruguay.

The dissenters, whom I applaud from a standing position, were:

CANADA.

The CZECH REPUBLIC.

GERMANY.

GUATEMALA.

The UNITED KINGDOM.

He today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.