The leading European human rights assembly votes to pass a resolution condemning the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but it is amended at the last minute to include an Israeli-drafted amendment calling for the Palestinian Authority to stop financing terrorist activities.
The Palestinian-drafted resolution is the first time the Council of Europe has called on the PA to stop financing terrorist activities against Israel.
A statement from Ambassador Carmel Shama-Hacohen’s office says other Palestinian efforts to have the text further amended to include harsher criticisms of Israel were not included in the final draft.
Shama-Hacohen in the statement called the vote a “diplomatic achievement” for Israel.
“The Palestinians, I think, are sorry for instigating the unnecessary move, but that’s how it is when you’re constantly preoccupied with lies and incitement,” he says.
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