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Undermining Israel's Right to Self-Defense: The UN Pathology
(Jerusalem Post) Anne Bayefsky - Every time Israel is attacked, not only does the UN fail to maintain peace and security - it attempts to gut Israel's inherent right of self-defense. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs issued a "situation report" on July 9, 2014. It provides a "background on the crisis" that states: "The latest escalation round started on 11 June when Israeli forces targeted and killed an alleged member of an armed group, along with a child accompanying him, and Palestinian factions responded by shooting rockets at southern Israel." Next came Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who told journalists: "I utterly condemn these rocket attacks and more especially I condemn Israel's excessive acts of retaliation." Pillay expressed "serious doubt about whether the Israeli strikes have been in accordance with international law" and called for an "independent" investigation.