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than 100,000 missiles directed 
toward Israel. I think Israel’s 
deterrence capabilities are strong 
enough to make them think not 
twice, but 10 times before they 
launched those missiles, but 
their potential capabilities are 
very, very worrying. So, this is 
something that we also have to 
take into account.
Q: How does Israel feel about the 
U.S. rejoining the U.N. Human 
Rights Council? 
 The U.N. Human Rights 
Council has proven to be very 
biased toward Israel. One of its 
agenda items, Item 4 — “Human 
Rights Situations that Require 
the Council’s Attention” — dis-
cusses any human rights vio-
lations around the world, be it 
in China, in Japan, in France, 
in the United States, Canada or 
wherever. Then it also has Item 
7 — “Human Rights Situation in 
Palestine and Other Occupied 
Arab Territories” — which is 
dedicated only to one country, to 
one state in the world: Israel. 
For example, since its estab-
lishment in 2006, this council 
adopted 90 resolutions against 
Israel. This is more than the 
number of all the resolutions 
that were adopted on Iran, Syria, 
China, Venezuela and Cuba 
together. 
And if you ask any citizen of 
the world where he or she would 
prefer to live: in Israel or in 
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and North 
Korea, the answer is clear. 
Israel is a great place to live. 
It’s open. It’s a vibrant democ-
racy. Do do we make mistakes? 
Yes, it’s totally okay to debate on 
that, but not to single Israel out 
and delegitimize it. The council 
has gone way, way, way too far.
We have made some prog-
ress, especially with European 
partners, in getting this item cut 
because it is totally crazy. But 
there’s so much more to be done. 
I hope that by joining the coun-
cil, the United States will be able 
to fix that. 
That’s our expectation. 

AVI ISSACHAROFF

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