The chairwoman of a U.N. human rights body vilified Israel. At the recent opening of the three-week session of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva, Halima Warzazi of Morocco said Israel “sowed death, massive destruction, terror, despair, and perpetuated persecution and torture.”
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