Exclusive: Schabas’ own colleague, human rights icon Aryeh Neier, calls for him to quit UN Gaza prob

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39. A commission tasked w/investigating only Israel and not Hamas.....

...is not legitimate, nor credible. Why is this so difficult to comprehend?

We went over this in another thread where human rights groups went out of their way defending Hamas war crimes. Neither the Goldstone or Schabas commissions were tasked with investigating Hamas war crimes. Goldstone was a Kangaroo court from the start and HRW and Amnesty were all too eager to play, being the fair and objective professional rights advocates they claim to be. Goldstone should have known better to involve himself with that crap. Any objective, decent person would have turned the UN down.

Sorry, there's simply no defending either inquiry. Amnesty and HRW should have screamed foul the moment they found out Hamas wasn't being investigated during Goldstone. Same with the Schabas inquiry. If they had any credibility, they'd have separated themselves from such an inquiry until such time they found out the commission is doing its best to investigate both sides. Is that too much to ask?

It'll be a cold day in hell before that happens. Their credibility is shot and has been for a long time.

And to boot, HRW and Amnesty walked away from the charge that Israel deliberately targeted civilians as soon as Goldstone did. So were they full of shit making such a charge or lying once they later agreed with Goldstone's retraction? You may claim Goldstone crumbled under the pressure but what about HRW and Amnesty?