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To: JohnM who wrote (258019)	8/11/2014 10:43:58 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 541965

So, the UN will form a 3 member commission to investigate Israel for war crimes in Gaza and it chooses as its head a guy who is already on record as calling to put Netanyahu and Peres on trial at the ICC, and who praised the Goldstone Committee report, saying that Goldstone "should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." Of course, Goldstone himself later wrote, " If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document." But the damage had been done by the original report. It would have been better if Goldstone himself had been on the Committee, since he knows the errors that his committee made and the pressures that they were under--from both Israelis and Palestinians. As it is, this report is likely to be a sham. A member of the UN Human Rights Council said, Navi Pillay, the top U.N. human rights official, said on July 31 she believed Israel was deliberately defying international law in its military offensive in Gaza and that world powers should hold it accountable for possible war crimes. in.reuters.com Gee, Navi, could you be more transparent? Why bother holding an investigation? They could come out with a report next week. By naming Schabas, they are assuring themselves that the report will say what they already want it to say. UN names Gaza probe panel, headed by harsh Israel critic excerpt: The three-member panel will be chaired by Prof. William Schabas, a Canadian expert on international law whose academic focus has been on genocide. He is known to be highly critical of Israel and harshly attacked Operation Cast Lead at the time (2008-09). He praised the report issued by the Goldstone Committee following that operation, and said the commission’s chairman, Richard Goldstone, should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Schabas has called in the past for the International Criminal Court in The Hague to put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Shimon Peres on trial. Last year, at a conference in New York, Schabas said: “My favorite would be Netanyahu within the dock of the International Criminal Court.” A few years earlier, he said that if there was an indictment in the ICC against the president of Sudan for genocide, why should a similar indictment not be issued against the Israeli president for events in Gaza. haaretz.com Here is a video of Schabas talking about Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. What a great choice to head this panel--a person who has already made up his mind.