Jack Keane: The Administration Has Made the Right Move Pulling out of the Human Rights Council

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HALEY: "If the Human Rights Council will attack countries that uphold human rights and shield countries that abuse human rights then America should not provide it with any credibility. Instead, we will continue to lead on human rights outside the misnamed Human Rights Council."
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HEMMER: "So the Obama administration rejoined in 2009; 2018 we’re no longer in it. General, how do you read this?"
KEANE: "Absolutely a very good call. This is one of the most political hypocritical organizations in the U.N. It reflects the general attitude in the U.N. which is largely anti-Israel and also to a degree anti-American. And they don’t go — they don’t go after the major human rights abusers in the world. And yet they have three abusers that are part of the council. What are we talking about here? Iran, Venezuela and Republic of Congo. And they’ve gone after Israel multiple times. In the last 10 years -- I was looking at the data this morning it’s 70 times they have condemned Israel. Israel is the only full throat democracy in the Middle East. It protects individual rights. And there are human rights abusers all around them that largely do not get condemned by this council. So I think the administration has made the right move. Listen, previous administrations haven’t done it because, well, it’s a Human Rights Council, we don’t want to pull out of that. It looks like we are not for human rights. But this administration has got the spine to stands up and say, 'This is a hypocritical organization. We’re not for this organization, and we are for human rights.'"