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Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-anatomy-hanging-article-1.1944968
The UN Convicted Israel Before Its Show Trial Even Began
(New York Daily News) Editorial - Hamas started the conflict by firing thousands of rockets indiscriminately into the Jewish state from heavily populated areas of Gaza, and prolonged the suffering by violating cease-fire after cease-fire that Israel honored. While each Hamas rocket was a war crime, too much of the world attacked Israel for retaliating in self-defense. Among those is the UN Human Rights Council, a body dominated by Israel's foes that has focused incessantly on Israel while turning a blind eye to abuses by the world's worst regimes. The Council empaneled a commission "to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law" during the war with an authorizing resolution condemning the Jewish state 18 times, while never once mentioning Hamas.