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The UN's Kangaroo "Investigation" of Israeli "War Crimes"
[Huffington Post] Alan Dershowitz - Just as Spain's National Court decided to shelve a phony war crime investigation of a 2002 Israeli air strike in Gaza, a group of lawyers and military experts assigned by the UN Human Rights Council continued its phony investigation of "the grave violations of human rights" in Gaza. The UN Human Rights Council is a scandal. It's a successor to the defunct UN Human Rights Commission. Both organizations have a long history of singling out Israel for condemnation and of ignoring real human rights abusers by the world's worst offenders, several of which dominate the Human Rights Council and its predecessor. The Council has already concluded that the Gaza Strip "remains occupied," despite Israel having removed every single soldier and settler in 2005. The Council's current president has limited the scope of the investigation to "violations committed in the context of the conflict that took place between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009." Prior to that period, Hamas and its terrorist allies fired thousands of rockets and mortar shells into civilian areas of Israel, killing, maiming and traumatizing Israeli women, men and children. But these attacks that provoked Israel's self-defense military actions are excluded from the investigation, according to the mandate and its interpretation by the president of the Council. Hamas boasts that it has committed multiple war crimes: firing rockets at Israeli school children, primarily at times when they are on their way to and from school; it has hit several kindergartens, elementary schools and playgrounds. Targeting civilians is a war crime. Hiding behind human shields is also a war crime.