Germany to Israel: Attend UN Human Rights Council - Or Else

Germany's foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has warned Israel to face a periodic United Nations Human Rights Council (U.N.H.R.C.) Periodic Review -- or face severe diplomatic consequences, according to a Haaretz report (Sunday). Israel severed ties with the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council in March 2012, after it announced it would investigate how the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria would affect the rights of local Arabs.