It would be nice to get shirei_shibolim involved in this discussion. I'm sure he also knows more about the framing political situation than I do.

Israel and the U.S. withdrew, and Kofi Annan compared the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi treatment of the Jews, at which point the foreign minister of Germany told him that they weren't the same at all and he shouldn't dare make the comparison. The U.S. also got kicked off the Human Rights Commission and replaced with Sudan, which still practices race-based slavery.

Oh, international politics. You would be hilarious if you were not so scary.