Posted on 02/02/2015 4:58:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Canadian law professor William Schabas, who was appointed to head the UN committee tasked with probing Israel’s alleged “war crimes” during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, announced on Monday evening he was stepping down.
According to the Reuters news agency, Schabas cited Israeli allegations of bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the reason for his resignation.
In a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which appointed him to head the inquiry, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Schabas said he would step down immediately to prevent the issue from overshadowing the preparation of the report and its findings, which are due to be published in March.
In the letter, Schabas said a legal opinion he wrote for the PLO in 2012, for which he was paid $1,300, was not different from advice he had given to many other governments and organizations.
"My views on Israel and Palestine as well as on many other issues were well known and very public," he wrote, according to Reuters. "This work in defense of human rights appears to have made me a huge target for malicious attacks (...)."
"I believe that it is difficult for the work to continue while a procedure is underway to consider whether the chair of the commission should be removed," Schabas added.
Schabas is well-known for his bias against Israel. Speaking in a 2013 panel, Schabas clearly revealed his great eagerness to bring about the prosecution of Israel over its actions in Gaza, even if that involved “twisting things and maneuvering” in the international legal arena.
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Israel just needs to make sure any such enemy ‘investigators’ or infiltrators or instigators are not permitted entry, or are quickly expelled if they are found to have snuck in somehow.
Starting with the Obama/Soros/IslamoNazi election riggers in Israel right NOW......
if Israel allows such enemy agents to stay in the country, they’re a whole lot stupider than any of us ever thought..
We are. So are Americans. Only You’re-a-peons are exactly as stupid as people think.
That's the only way a guy is going to get hired at the UN. I don't expect to ever read a biography of a UN rep talking about the work he did to restore democracy and capitalism in former Soviet republics.
Buh...bye! ... :-) ...
very very sorry to hear that about Israelis.
I know it is at least 53 percent true in USA
and as for Europe, they seem 90% complacent with their ruling elite selling them out to the IslamoNazis
who would have imagined such things, especially considering all the accomplishments these nations have achieved in so many other ways?
Please stay with the Palis and stay the H out of Canada!
To be fair, a consultant for terrorists can be as objective about Israel as Barack Hussein Obama. Isn't that good enough?
I suspect the reason he is stepping down in only because he has been INEFFECTIVE.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“I suspect the reason he is stepping down in only because he has been INEFFECTIVE.”
Translating his words from Left-Speak, that’s exactly what he was saying.
Ineffective? Mah pit’om? He wrote a perfectly good conclusion, and then went to investigate in order to justify the conclusion.
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