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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Calls For Scrapping UN Gaza War Probe
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called
for scrapping a U.N. commission, which is tasked with investigating potential
war crimes committed last summer in Gaza, after the inquiry's chief resignedid accusations from Israel that he was biased against the country.
| By
ARON HELLER and DAVID RISING
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called
for scrapping a U.N. commission, which is tasked with investigating potential
war crimes committed last summer in Gaza, after the inquiry's chief resigned
amid accusations from Israel that he was biased against the country.
Netanyahu said the commission, set up by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, was an "anti-Israeli body" that had a proven track record of doing nothing about true human rights violations around the world.
The U.N. commission was due to issue its report next month. Israel did not cooperate with it, saying it was hostile to Israel and that its conclusions were known in advance.
The summer's war in Gaza, the third between Israel and Hamas since the group seized the seaside territory, killed more than 2,200 Palestinians and 72 people on the Israeli side. At least 1,483 Palestinian civilians were killed in the war — 66 percent of the overall death toll — according to preliminary United Nations figures.
The U.N. commission chief, Canadian law professor William Schabas, submitted his resignation on Monday night, according to Rolando Gomez, a spokesman for the U.N. Human Rights Council. Gomez said current commission member Mary McGowan Davis would replace Schabas.
The move followed an official Jan. 30 complaint from Israel accusing Schabas of "clear and documented bias against Israel," citing a "contractual relationship with the Palestinian side" prior to becoming head of the commission.
In his resignation letter, which was viewed by The Associated Press, Schabas acknowledged that he received $1,300 for a legal opinion he wrote for the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2012 but said it was of a "technical legal nature" drawn from scholarly work he had published.
He also defended his record, saying that as a "scholar involved in international human rights, I have regularly condemned perpetrators of violations."
"This work in defense of human rights appears to have made me a huge target for malicious attacks," Schabas wrote, adding that he was resigning to avoid any distractions while the commission finished its "decisive stage" of work.
The commission's final report is scheduled to be presented March 23.
After his appointment last year, Schabas said he wouldn't let his past criticism of Israeli leaders affect his ability to carry out the investigation. But in Israel he was widely regarded as having a distinct anti-Israel bent.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Schabas' resignation "shows the huge pressure Israel and the Zionist lobby put on the committee and its chairman."
The Israeli pressure "is meant for impunity and killing the truth," Barhoum said.
Netanyahu has accused the U.N. commission of unfairly targeting Israel and ignoring abuses elsewhere.
"This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined," Netanyahu said, adding that Gaza's Hamas rulers "need to be investigated, not Israel."
The 47-member council, which includes several Arab and Muslim-majority countries, has a record of passing more resolutions condemning Israel's alleged abuses than those of other states. The practice has been criticized as excessive by Israel's allies, including the United States, which nevertheless supports the council's overall work.
Israel says it went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties during the summer war in Gaza and accuses Hamas of both firing rockets at Israeli civilians and using its own people as human shields.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he didn't expect Schabas' resignation to affect the inquiry's final report but credited Israeli diplomacy efforts nonetheless with bringing about the resignation.
"Having Schabas investigate Israel is like having Cain investigate who murdered Abel," Lieberman added.
Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the Israeli officials remarks were "typical Israeli tactics."
"They try to intimidate, they try to slander, they try to discredit, they make it extremely difficult for anybody to take any position that would hold Israel accountable or investigating Israeli violations or Israeli war crimes," she said.
Netanyahu now you realize God has been kind to keep yourself alive to do something good but you have turned yourself to be the a younger brother of "Eblis Satan'" killing innocent infants, children males and females. You are already an indicted assassin a criminal of the most heinous crime.
Over and above you used the ugliest thing any human can do is you used the money given to you as grant for food for the poor but you used in fucking your wife on flight from your country to UK. Where in you hired a wide bodied plan and furbishing with a bed that took millions of $ unow under inquiry by you anticorruption people. What filthy stinking person you are
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Calls For
Scrapping UN Gaza War Probe
Scrapping UN Gaza War Probe
| By
ARON HELLER and DAVID RISING
Posted: 02/03/2015 3:07 am EST Updated: 02/03/2015 4:59 pm ES
for scrapping a U.N. commission, which is tasked with investigating potential
war crimes committed last summer in Gaza, after the inquiry's chief resignedid accusations from Israel that he was biased against the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Calls For
Scrapping UN Gaza War Probe
| By
ARON HELLER and DAVID RISING
Posted: 02/03/2015 3:07 am EST
Updated: 02/03/2015 4:59 pm ES
Netanyahu said the commission, set up by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, was an "anti-Israeli body" that had a proven track record of doing nothing about true human rights violations around the world.
The U.N. commission was due to issue its report next month. Israel did not cooperate with it, saying it was hostile to Israel and that its conclusions were known in advance.
The summer's war in Gaza, the third between Israel and Hamas since the group seized the seaside territory, killed more than 2,200 Palestinians and 72 people on the Israeli side. At least 1,483 Palestinian civilians were killed in the war — 66 percent of the overall death toll — according to preliminary United Nations figures.
The U.N. commission chief, Canadian law professor William Schabas, submitted his resignation on Monday night, according to Rolando Gomez, a spokesman for the U.N. Human Rights Council. Gomez said current commission member Mary McGowan Davis would replace Schabas.
The move followed an official Jan. 30 complaint from Israel accusing Schabas of "clear and documented bias against Israel," citing a "contractual relationship with the Palestinian side" prior to becoming head of the commission.
In his resignation letter, which was viewed by The Associated Press, Schabas acknowledged that he received $1,300 for a legal opinion he wrote for the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2012 but said it was of a "technical legal nature" drawn from scholarly work he had published.
He also defended his record, saying that as a "scholar involved in international human rights, I have regularly condemned perpetrators of violations."
"This work in defense of human rights appears to have made me a huge target for malicious attacks," Schabas wrote, adding that he was resigning to avoid any distractions while the commission finished its "decisive stage" of work.
The commission's final report is scheduled to be presented March 23.
After his appointment last year, Schabas said he wouldn't let his past criticism of Israeli leaders affect his ability to carry out the investigation. But in Israel he was widely regarded as having a distinct anti-Israel bent.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Schabas' resignation "shows the huge pressure Israel and the Zionist lobby put on the committee and its chairman."
The Israeli pressure "is meant for impunity and killing the truth," Barhoum said.
Netanyahu has accused the U.N. commission of unfairly targeting Israel and ignoring abuses elsewhere.
"This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined," Netanyahu said, adding that Gaza's Hamas rulers "need to be investigated, not Israel."
The 47-member council, which includes several Arab and Muslim-majority countries, has a record of passing more resolutions condemning Israel's alleged abuses than those of other states. The practice has been criticized as excessive by Israel's allies, including the United States, which nevertheless supports the council's overall work.
Israel says it went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties during the summer war in Gaza and accuses Hamas of both firing rockets at Israeli civilians and using its own people as human shields.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he didn't expect Schabas' resignation to affect the inquiry's final report but credited Israeli diplomacy efforts nonetheless with bringing about the resignation.
"Having Schabas investigate Israel is like having Cain investigate who murdered Abel," Lieberman added.
Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the Israeli officials remarks were "typical Israeli tactics."
"They try to intimidate, they try to slander, they try to discredit, they make it extremely difficult for anybody to take any position that would hold Israel accountable or investigating Israeli violations or Israeli war crimes," she said.
Netanyahu now you realize God has been kind to keep yourself alive to do something good but you have turned yourself to be the a younger brother of "Eblis Satan'" killing innocent infants, children males and females. You are already an indicted assassin a criminal of the most heinous crime.
Over and above you used the ugliest thing any human can do is you used the money given to you as grant for food for the poor but you used in fucking your wife on flight from your country to UK. Where in you hired a wide bodied plan and furbishing with a bed that took millions of $ unow under inquiry by you anticorruption people. What filthy stinking person you are
Now tell the world
if you are at all a human beings or an animal. Aren’t you feeling the heat of
the fire near your ass hole. And you
jumping on the straight cock of the US ZIONIST lawmakers to save you while you
bastard is in the midst of planning to kill AMERICAN middle class and poor
INCLUDING OUR PRESIDENT. YOU are not only a bastard son of a Nazi but son of a
bitch along with ugly looking bastards
sons of the Nazis like the Senate majority leader and the speaker.
You know even the Jewish
community of US wants to see you go completely naked and beg for your sinful
life and none to help you except GOD whom you Zionist bastards broken all his
commandments. none would stop the ICC investigations. After all why should
they?
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