"Israel has sent an urgent letter to 26 foreign ministers asking that their countries oppose a United Nations Human Rights Council drive to strip Israel of its right to self-defense.
Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent the letter on Tuesday in advance of a UNHRC vote later this week by the 47-member body. It is poised to approve a controversial report on the Palestinian Gaza border protests, known as the 'Great March of Return.'...
'This is another initiative of the Human Rights Council's theater of the absurd,' Katz wrote.
'We will not accept a situation in which an automatic majority of hostile countries converts the victim of Hamas's aggression into the guilty party and tries to deprive Israel of its right to self-defense,' he said. 'We demand that the friendly member countries of the council will oppose the decision on the report, which harms the only democracy in the Middle East and encourages the continuation of Hamas's infamous terrorism.'..."