The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today agreed to open an investigation into Israeli war crimes during their ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip. The vote was pressed by the Palestinian observer to the council.
The vote was not close, with 29 votes in favor and only the US voting against the probe. Several US allies also abstained, but none of them voted against the resolution.
US Ambassador Keith Harper complained that the investigation might hurt ceasefire efforts, while Israeli officials railed against the vote, saying Hamas was the only one committing war crimes in the war, and that they were mere “a democracy defending itself” from a “terrorist aggressor.”
UNHRC chief Navi Pillay says the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Israel’s attacks could well amount to war crimes, and showed a “disregard for international humanitarian law.”
After the 2008-09 Israeli invasion of Gaza, the UNHRC set up the Goldstone commission to investigate war crimes, providing a report that showed that far from self-defense, the Israeli war was meant to “humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.”
Somehow someway the US will derail any investigation of Israel. War crimes mean nothing to US government and especially so when it comes to Israel. War criminal is as Israel does.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!
This is a complete joke. The UN to investigate Israeli war crimes……again, we all know what the outcome will be, I’m really starting to feel sick to my stomach.
The investigation should be sure to identify the USG as an accessory to war crimes, since they obviously are.
The UNHRC should also open an investigation of the US, especially the black hole of GITMO.
Yes, investigate and bring out the truth.
I would respectfully advise anyone hoping the USG would support any
UN (investigation) of war crimes and atrocities committed by the
murdering Zionist scum occupying Palestine (not) to hold your breath.
AIPAC will make sure its whores and prostitutes in the USG Congress
and stooge in the Oval Office scuttle any kind of investigation.
These scoundrels are aware of upcoming Midterm elections, and don't
want to risk being kicked off the AIPAC gravy train.
Terrorist NO.1 Israel Kill Israel
Actually, an oncologist is needed: Israel is a cancer on the human body that should be excised.
These religious man are sadistic by all means, they get their psychological doss while dreaming about traveling to heaven with Uncle Sam money.
Maybe the UN should be looking into the procedures needed to revoke Israel's charter as an independent nation, considering it has continually failed to comply with the procedures and conditions set forth in the UN charter. If the UN can create a nation, it can dissolve it as well.
Oh if only Israel were created as it was presented to the US in the film 'Exodus', with Barak ben Canaan (played by Lee J. Cobb), upon the announcement of Israel being granted independent nation status, exhorting the Palestinian Arabs of Israel to not go anywhere, that the Jews of the newly-created state wanted to live in peace side-by-side with their Arab and Muslim brothers. I credit the film with raising America's awareness of Israel in the early 60's, but when I see it today I can think of it as not much more than a work of technicolor propaganda. The 'Exodus' Israel is the one I respect- not the reality.