"On the morning of the UNHCR vote... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had personally called David Cameron and Angela Merkel and asked them to vote for the Israel-bashing resolution.
The reason... was that this resolution – which was bad enough – had been watered down from the far more savage original version. Israel feared that if the watered-down version was overturned, the original would be revived...
The PA was using blackmail to get the Europeans, in particular, on side... The people the PA has identified as the key to bringing Israel down through both economic isolation and diplomatic delegitimization are the Europeans.
The PA's goal at the UNHRC was therefore a full hand of European support. So it used blackmail to achieve it. If the Europeans wouldn't vote en bloc for the watered-down resolution, the PA would bring forward instead the original that Israel feared more.
That was why Netanyahu rang Cameron and Merkel. That was why even abstention wasn't enough. The UK and Germany had to vote for the resolution to see off the PA threat...
Netanyahu's gambit was born of desperation because he was backed into a corner – not just by the PA's behavior but by the pusillanimous attitude of Britain and the Europeans.
For in the face of the PA's blackmail – indeed, presented with this appalling report and even the watered-down resolution – the UK and Europeans should have said they would have no more to do with this travesty and walked out of the UNHRC altogether...
By remaining members, the UK, US and Europeans legitimize the UNHRC and thus tacitly connive at its diplomatic pogrom against Israel. Even the US can hardly preen itself over its no vote since, as a council member, it will still be helping pay to implement this resolution."