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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-689705
Israel, U.S. Oppose New UN Commission of Inquiry
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - As the UN General Assembly voted to fund an unprecedented open-ended war crimes probe against Israel, Israeli UN representative Sherry Zilbergeld said: "Establishing a novel, permanent standing committee rather than a limited, temporary and well-defined Commission of Inquiry is unprecedented and dangerous," accusing the General Assembly of funding a "mock court" against Israel. "Countries who opposed the formation of the Commission of Inquiry...will have to pay for this mechanism next year...in 10 years and...in 100 years." Zilbergeld said, "Since its establishment in 2006, the UNHRC has set up 32 investigative bodies, with nine - nearly a third - of these focused exclusively on Israel." She noted that no Commission of Inquiry was created to investigate Hamas, an "internationally designated terror group" that has launched thousands of rockets against Israeli civilians. The U.S. representative said the probe "perpetuates a practice of unfairly singling out Israel in the UN and, like prior U.S. administrations, we strongly oppose such treatment of Israel. The U.S. will continue to oppose this....Israel can continue to count on the U.S. to do everything possible to shield it from discriminatory and unbalanced criticism - whether at the UNHRC or elsewhere in the UN system."