"A resolution endorsing a controversial report on last year's Gaza War will be voted on by the United Nations Human Rights Council later this week, and while its passage is all but a foregone conclusion, the exact wording of the measure is still being hotly debated between the Palestinian delegation and the European Union.
The Palestinians' first draft, a copy of which was obtained by The Times of Israel, is blatantly one-sided. It contains various harshly-worded condemnations of Israel but doesn't mention Hamas once or suggest any guilt on the part of the Palestinian terror group, which is seen as the de-facto ruler of the Gaza Strip.
The draft's anti-Israel slant led the six EU member states currently on the council to reject it out of hand.
'It's unacceptable to us,' a senior European diplomat said about the draft resolution.
But it's not yet clear how much the Palestinians will be willing to tone down their rhetoric...
Israeli diplomats are currently working feverishly to convince as many Western states as possible to reject the resolution, regardless of which version will end up on the ballot. A vote for this resolution, they argue, is a vote for terror, and this can come back to haunt you..."