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Source: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/05/un-inquiry-accused-of-anti-israel-bias/
UN Inquiry Accused of Anti-Israel Bias
(FOX News) Ben Evansky - The controversial UN Goldstone Report that accused Israel of "war crimes" in Gaza is under fire for being biased. Nile Gardiner, a UN expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, says the so-called experts who helped write the report had already convicted Israel for war crimes before coming on board to investigate it. Just last month, commission member Desmond Travers told the pro-Palestinian website Middle East Monitor that Hamas had only fired "something like two" rockets at Israel prior to the conflict in December 2008. Israeli says there were 125 rockets and 80 mortars. Another member of the team, Christine Chinkin, published a letter in the Sunday Times of London during the height of the war joining others in accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. This weekend Francesca Marotta, a senior member of the UN staff that helped compile the Goldstone Report, was advertised as being the keynote speaker at a pro-Palestinian event in Switzerland. Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Swiss based NGO UN Watch, noted a letter sent by commission members Judge Richard Goldstone, Hina Jilani, and Desmond Travers a full month before their appointment that protested Israel's actions in Gaza.