Exceed the inquiry into occupation and go more broadly into the relationship of israel and palestine and i think the Human Rights Council was trying to avoid that kind of free inquiry for under the limited inquiry it was a means of set up pretty lean your freedom rather than expanding it. Yes curtailing it and also it precludes me from examining whether the palestinians were in some ways also violating human rights within the territory they administer. And i tried to change that way of thinking about the mandate but there was a strong pushback against that effort because who is a fear that if the men the description was changed the mandate itself might disappear your aunt you were at the time a prominent american scholar and International Law and yet as far as i know it was the United States on to the outgoing Bush Administration that also objected pretty strongly to your appointment perhaps because of that believe that you would be more biased towards the palestinians i wonder if the
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