Posted on 02/03/2015 5:16:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The head of a UN inquiry into potential war crimes committed during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict has resigned amid allegations of anti-Israel bias.
William Schabas acknowledged he had previously done work for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), and did not want this to compromise the probe.
Israel had accused Prof Schabas of "clear and documented bias" against it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the investigation should now be scrapped.
The inquiry's panel, which was commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR), is due to issue its findings in March.
Mr Netanyahu said council was "an anti-Israel body" whose record proved it has "nothing to do with human rights".
"This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined," he said.
"After the resignation of William Schabas it is time to shelve the anti-Israeli report his committee wrote."
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The UN is a farce...as is NATO...these organizations were formed to combat Soviet aggression and were to be a block against such aggression. Since both of their formations, so called free elections, infiltration, blackmail, and a host of infectious elements have watered down the original purpose.
If Israel is to survive - they need to align themselves with those nations that truly hold their survival as a prime requirement. At the moment, the same elements that have destroyed the UN and NATO has done the same to the US on the federal level leaving it vulnerable and lacking in any real response.
If the US educational system was not poisoned by liberalism and world politics and history taught correctly, the US public would be standing behind Israel and calling for Wash DC to do the same...at the moment, little Johnny and Sally could even find Israel on a map - let alone tell the dilemma that they are now trying to defend themselves against.
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