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war no more." These words were s the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city, i of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem. We are not strangers to this land. It is our homeland. As deeply connected as we ai land, we recognize that the Palestinians also live there and w
liberately hurled at c civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks heard nothing — absolutely nothing — from the UN Human Rights Council, a misnan institution if there ever was one. In 2005, hoping to advance peace, Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of C dismantled 21 set
e, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? My mother’s answer: “Practice, practice, practice law, like my son.” My next encounter with Havel took place in Jerusalem during the celebration of Israel’s 60 birthday. Havel, Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto
erence, I decided to travel to Geneva in an effort to restore the human rights agenda to its proper priorities, or if that wasn’t possible, to expose the UN Human Rights Council for what it has become—an enemy of neutral and universal human rights. It would be an uphill fight because the primary speaker invited to address the
Council immediately after the incident as well as the UN Human Rights Council's decision finding the Gaza blockade illegal and Is
es, have been taken before in Turkey's relationship with Israel. Diplomatic ties between the two countries were severed in 1980s when Israel declared Jerusalem its capital, so this is not a first. The suspension of military agreements could be viewed as significant, but it should be noted that the two countr
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