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""This process of taking out some of the demonizing language against Israel, and then re-inserting it, illustrates the basic problem in this entire process," Prof. Gerald Steinberg, executive director of the Jerusalem-based organization NGO Monitor, said Thursday. "As long as the U.N. human rights mechanisms, including the Durban process, is subject to the political power of the worst human rights violators – the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Cuba, China, Russia, and others – events like this will continue to be counterproductive, in terms of human rights." Steinberg, who heads the political studies department at Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University, said it was unlikely that the U.S. government would able to make much of a difference to the process "without strong and consistent European support, and this is still not visible.""