In the shadow of the issue of releasing Palestinian prisoners, Prime Minister Netanyahu found time to attack the UN Human Rights Council following a series of condemnations it recently issued against Israel. At a meeting of government ministers this morning, he said: "Over the weekend, the UN Human Rights Council condemned Israel five times - this is while the massacre in Syria continues, innocent people are being hanged in the Middle East and human rights abusers are being persecuted. In many countries, free media outlets are being closed, and the UN Human Rights Council has decided to condemn Israel for some kind of balcony closure. This is absurd. This parade of hypocrisy continues and we will continue to denounce and expose it.".
At the beginning of the meeting, the Prime Minister referred to the security incident in the north, during which an IDF force eliminated two suspects in the border area, south of Quneitra, over the weekend. Netanyahu clarified: "A freckleYou Respond to every attempt to"We are hurt, and to the best of our ability, as a proactive policy, we will thwart these attacks before they occur.""
Netanyahu also addressed Israel's economic situation, saying that our economic situation is good, and that he will work to make it better. Netanyahu said that Israel received a higher credit rating at the end of the week, indicating the good condition of the Israeli economy. "I assume that this is also related not only to the fact that unemployment is one of the lowest we have had in many years," he said, "but also to the fact that, relative to other economies in the West, and in the world in general, the state of the Israeli economy is very good.""