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UN Probe Head Says Netanyahu is a War Criminal, Can’t Say if Hamas are Terrorists

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On August 13, 2014 @ 12:15 pm In The Point | 19 Comments

Don’t ever change UN. Then we might have to start taking you seriously.

International Law Professor William Schabas, appointed to head the UNHRC probe into Israel’s defensive strikes against Hamas has already decided what the verdict will be.

Because it’s the UN.

Neuer also noted that Schabas once called for “going after” Israel’s then-President Shimon Peres in the ICC, saying, “Why are we going after the president of Sudan for Darfur, and not the president of Israel for Gaza?” Last year, Schabas declared, “My favorite would be Netanyahu within the dock of the International Criminal Court.”

But he’s remaining carefully neutral on the question of whether Hamas terrorists... are terrorists.

The man chosen to head the United Nations Human Rights Council’s latest probe into the war in Gaza won’t state clearly whether Hamas is a terror group.

Kushmaro: “By the way, do you consider Hamas a terror organization?”

Silence.

And then Schabas sighed and said, “It would be inappropriate for me to answer a question like that, uh, given what I said earlier, about having to start basically with a blank sheet and start to study this question in as neutral and objective a manner as possible. It would be inappropriate for me,” he repeated, “given my position.”

That’s a “No”.


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