By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Two historical things have happened recently which have been passed off as non-entity because it hurt the business interest of the powerful nations. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to form an International inquiry commission to investigate, ‘“grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem” including violation of International laws and treaties, and all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity on or before April 13th, 2021. The Commission shall be appointed by the President of the UN Human Rights Council and it seeks cooperation from all the parties. The adoption of a resolution also explained and exposed western hypocrisy on the issue. UK, Germany and Austria and six other countries, were the main proponents of opposing the resolution. Sadly, it was Germany and Austria where Hitler and other Nazis tortured and killed a large number of Jews.  Of course, the decisive role that UK played in snatching the Palestinian land to hand over to Israel cannot be kept aside. France, Brazil, Denmark, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea and six other countries (total 14) made them absent during the voting though they participated in the discussion. Now, this is a clever ploy to please all the sides without focussing on the issue of violation of human rights and Israel’s continuous negation of international laws. It is not possible without open support from the United States, UK, France and Germany. India has joined in this league in recent years as the Sangh Parivar and its ideologues consider Israel a ‘friendly’ country overturning our historical legacy of standing with Palestinian people. Those who supported the motion were Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Mexico, Namibia, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, Senegal, and Venezuela. In total 24 countries supported the motion. The Muslim countries have been feeling uncomfortable on the issue for a long though the dominant among them like Saudi Arabia and other middle eastern countries have made their relationship with Israel stronger and have…