"National Security Advisor John Bolton said last Wednesday that while discussion of President Donald Trump's decision to leave the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has centered on the administration's revulsion with its institutional anti-Israel bias, the move was really about restoring American control over U.S. foreign policy...
The Trump administration's determination to restore American power and independence in the international arena places it on a collision course with the European Union, whose perspective on the proper goal of international affairs is diametrically opposed to the administration's...
The UNHRC is a perfect vehicle for advancing Europe's foreign policy. Its name gives it a do-gooder halo effect. The notion that a 'human rights council' could be anything but a force for good in the world is hard to accept. But a year after it was established, the council focused its efforts not on protecting human rights, but on attacking the human rights of Jews in Israel...
The EU and its member nations go to great lengths to hide the fact that they are on the opposite side of the fence from the U.S. in regards to Israel specifically and the issue of nationalism and U.S. independence more broadly..."