Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said he was considering withdrawing the Israeli ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council and severing ties with the body

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Friday that he was considering withdrawing the Israeli ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council and severing ties with the body, following its establishment of a fact-finding mission to probe the effects of settlements on Palestinian human rights, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Liberman added that he will convene a meeting in the foreign ministry to discuss the possibility that ‘Israel’ will not cooperate with the council in their investigation.

During a meeting with President of Singapore Tony Tan Keng Yam, the foreign minster also said that he will try to persuade countries such as the United States to quit the council too.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reacted to the decision on Thursday, saying the council is “hypocritical” and should be “ashamed of itself.”

The council, which met in Geneva, also approved four other resolutions against the Zionist entity including one opposing its actions on the Golan Heights.

By a vote of 36 to 1, with 10 abstentions, the council decided to dispatch the fact-finding mission to “investigate the implications” of the settlements on “the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including east Jerusalem.”

Only the biased US called the resolution biased and voted against it. It also rejected the other four resolutions.

“This council ought to be ashamed of itself,” he said. “Until today, the council has made 91 decisions, 39 of which dealt with Israel, three with Syria and one with Iran,” Netanyahu said denying the fact that Israel is the most hostile entity in the world considering its huge record of violence and resolutions’ violations.

“One only had to listen to the Syrian representative speak about human rights at the council on Thursday to understand how detached from reality it is,” he said. Another proof of its distance from reality, Netanyahu added, was the fact that this week it facilitated the lecture of an activist from Hamas at an NGO side event in its building.

The Foreign Ministry released a statement saying that the resolution was “yet another surrealistic decision” from the council that is more interested in promoting a one-sided political agenda than in human rights.

“While all over the Middle East human rights are violated in an unprecedented scale, the HRC ridicules itself by dedicating its time and resources to establish a superfluous and extravagant body whose sole purpose is to satisfy the Palestinians’ whims and to harm future chances to reach an agreement through peaceful means,” the statement said. “The Palestinians must understand that they cannot have it both ways: they cannot enjoy cooperation with Israel and at the same time initiate political clashes in international forums.”