Israeli Defense Minister Slams UN Criticism of Azaria Sentence

"Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Friday dismissed criticism by the UN's human rights agency over the sentence handed to Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who killed an incapacitated Palestinian stabber in the West Bank last year in March...

Liberman said the Human Rights' Council was 'a council not on human rights but on hatred of Israel.'

'Again it has been proven that in the distorted moral compass of the human rights' council, one bullet fired by Azaria at a terrorist is worse than the millions of bullets killing innocents in Syria, in Libya, in Iraq and in Yemen,' Liberman wrote on his Facebook page.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, wrote sarcastically on his Facebook page: 'Among the 500 thousand people murdered by Assad, the people decapitated by Islamic State and the people hanged by Iran, this must be the central problem in the Middle East.'...

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said the UN body was 'completely divorced from reality' for criticizing 'the only true democracy in the Middle East' while sitting 'silently by as human rights are crushed in Syria and Iran.'..."