Israeli BACKLASH Follows UN Appointment of Gaza War Crimes Commission

[Segami]

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"..Israeli officials slam 'kangaroo court' looking into possible violations of international law during assault on Gaza.."

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday announced the appointment of experts to carry out an independent commission charged with investigating possible war crimes during the month-long assault on Gaza that has killed nearly 2,000 Palestinians and 67 Israelis. On July 23 the Council adopted a resolution to launch the inquiry into possible violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws during the assault. The United States issued the sole vote against setting up the inquiry. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office was quick to criticize the resolution, saying in July that the inquiry would be carried out by "a kangaroo court" and whose "predictable result will be the libeling of Israel." The announcement Monday prompted backlash from Israeli officials who said that Canadian law professor William Schabas, who will head the three-member panel, holds an anti-Israel bias. “The report has already been written and the only question is who signs it,” the Jerusalem Post reports the Israeli Foreign Ministry as saying.



Foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Agence France-Presse Tuesday, "For this commission the important thing is not human rights but the rights of terrorist organizations like Hamas." Schabas shot back, telling public radio, "I've frequently lectured in Israel, at universities in Israel, I'm a member of the editorial board of the Israel law review, I wouldn't do those things if I was anti-Israel." "As far as I'm concerned [the conclusions of the report] are not written at all, that's the whole point of an investigation," he continued. In an interview with the Canadian Press, Schabas added, "Like everybody inside and outside Israel, I disagree with people. Is everyone in Israel who has an opinion about Netanyahu anti-Israel?" Joining Schabas on the Commission is Senegalese lawyer Doudou Diène, a former UN Special Rapporteur on racism. Though the Council indicated Monday that the third member of the Commission would be British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, she issued a statement Monday that though she "strongly believes that there should be an independent investigation and accountability for crimes that have been committed,” previous commitments prevent her from taking on this role.




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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/12/israeli-backlash-follows-un-appointment-gaza-war-crimes-commission

[deathrind]

1. Good.

[2banon]

2. "Is everyone in Israel who has an opinion about Netanyahu anti-Israel?"

Good to hear this report. It's obvious to the entire world that Israel has become an Extreme Right Wing Terrorist State and it should be officially regarded as such by the International Community, instituting policies such as heavy sanctions by the same standards befitting all such terrorists states.

[passiveporcupine]

7. Agreed n/t

[Scootaloo]

3. And yet Israel refuses to participate...

Thus ensuring that Israel's point of view cannot be represented at all in the report. Rather a bit of self-fulfilling theater, that.

[2banon]

9. Indeed. A well honed art form developed over the decades, it appears to me.

adept to manipulating and exploiting "collective guilt", to the expense of taxpayers in the U.S., the E.U., and the lives of Palestinians, and ultimately to their own people in Israel.

It's way past time put this psychopathic policy to an end. As Noam Chomsky put it, the situation is far worse than "apartheid", their policies are both Sadistic and Grotesque.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[billhicks76]

5. Cry Me A River

Playing the victim after bombing a population back to the stone age is UGLY.

[sabrina 1]

6. Every single victim of the brutality should also sue the Israeli Govt. Who cares what they call the

court, the rest of the world, outside this government here, doesn't have enough respect for Netanyahu's brutal govt to care much what they say. Throwing temper tantrums isn't making them look any better than they already do.

[4now]

8. If you can't stand the heat

quit murdering your neighbors children.

[magical thyme]

10. blowback's a bitch

'bout time they face some music.

[AgingAmerican]

11. Typical right wing response

nt

[malaise]

12. Fugg Bibi the war criminal

and his goons