The BBC has gone frontpage with the UN’s suggestion that Israel ‘may have committed war crimes’:
UN’s Navi Pillay warns of Israel Gaza ‘war crimes’
Curiously no mention of the UN’s own war crime on the BBC….the hiding of Hamas weapons in one of their schools…for the second time…at least:
For second time, rockets found at UN school in Gaza
Also where are all those tunnel entrances used to launch attacks on Israel been hidden?
To hide the tunnel work from Israeli intelligence, the entrances are mostly located on the bottom floor of houses, mosques, schools or other public buildings.
Clearly that wasn’t a revelation from any of the BBC’s journalists who don’t dwell on such truths:
Dr Eado Hecht is an independent defence analyst and lecturer in military doctrine at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University.
The UN of course has a great record when accusing Israel of ‘possible war crimes’:
Goldstone: Israel didn’t target civilians
By JPOST.COM STAFF
04/02/2011 12:38
Richard Goldstone writes that Israeli investigations refute allegations against it; slams Hamas war crimes, calls UNHRC “skewed against Israel”; “Israel has right, obligation to defend itself, its citizens.”
Judge Richard Goldstone said that if Israel had cooperated with his UN-sanctioned fact-finding mission into Operation Cast Lead and if he had known then what he knows today, “the Goldstone Report would have been a different document,” especially its allegations of “possible war crimes” directed at Israel.
Goldstone also slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, saying that the original mandate given to him was “skewed against Israel.”
“I have always been clear that Israel, like any other sovereign nation, has the right and obligation to defend itself and its citizens against attacks from abroad and within,” he wrote.
Saying that he changed the original mandate handed to him in order to investigate Hamas as well as Israel, he noted, “something that has not been recognized often enough is the fact that our report marked the first time illegal acts of terrorism from Hamas were being investigated and condemned by the United Nations.” He added that he had hoped his inquiry would usher in an era of even-handedness in the UNHRC, whose bias against Israel “cannot be doubted.”
Seems not.
The BBC grudgingly admit that Goldstone exonerated Israel when more evidence came to light but only right at the bottom of their article, the very, very last sentence:
The Goldstone report was rejected by Israel and the US as biased and flawed.
In 2011, the report’s author, South African judge Richard Goldstone, said that new accounts indicated Israel had not deliberately targeted civilians.
so here we go again,pointing the finger at israel and now its war crimes,so lets rewind the clock here,when tony blair and the labour party took us into a illegal war in iraq where 1 million died including 456 of are finest soldiers did d israel accuse tony blair and the new labour goverment of war crimes and demand they should stand trial in the haugue,nope,its one rule for us and one rule for israel,the hypocrisy of the un and those politicians who dragged are country into a illegal war against iraq is mindblowing and now the same people are accusing israel of war crimes,as richard littlejohn says,you could not make it up.
The American drone war has been splatting assorted random muslim civilians for years.
Why is it a war crime when Jews do it but it’s totally fine when President Obama does it?
Then there are the ISIS atrocities in Syria and Iraq.
Israel war crimes? What about Hamas?…. IDF destroys empty Gaza hospital, being used as Hamas command center..
VIDEO shows IDF determining al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza was abandoned by civilians and being used by Hamas before IDF forces destroy the complex. http://tinyurl.com/myezlo6
Israels only “war crime” is not to roll over and let Hamas and its hateful Islamic stormtroopers roll them all in a pig blanket and drown them in the Med….a new Red Sea by the time the Islamists finish with them all.
As for all those refugees of “Palestine”?…no-one in the liberal media gives a stuff about nearly a million Jews that were forcibly expelled from Muslim lands since WW2.
And only Israel could guarantee them their lives at the start.
Difference is that Israel created a “multiculti, inclusive and diverse” rainbow of genders, lifestyles and races with all it took in.
It didn`t put them behind barbed wire, take their passports away and keep them in a cage worthy of Moscow Zoo…just so the Sheikhs and Imams could feel good about themselves-and keep the power, get on the BBC and into the Guardian as they like to.
No-whether Israel exists or not is of no interest to to the BBC really, as long as we can emote and boycott, vote liberal or labour.
It sure as hell matters to the Jews and Israelis-and so the death star of Islam follows them to a charnel house with good camera angles and wifi reception.
But Israel will win-it simply HAS to if we hope to survive a few more years yet.
God Bless Israel- and damn the UN trusties who condemn it.
Wonder what countries THEY might come from…or what non-renewables they might be wanting in exchange for pliers, Stanley knives and some reliable mains electricity…
No mention of the fact that Navi Pillay is South African and was handed her position by the ANC who were also responsible for making her a Judge presumably as a reward for her defending ANC activists during the Apartheid era. And what is the official ANC attitude towards Israel? That Israel is an Apartheid State and the Israelis are behaving like Nazis towards the poor innocent Palestinians who would never, ever do anything wrong.
Of course, none of those attitudes, including those of Navi Pillay, could possibly have any connection with the fact that prior to the end of Apartheid the former rulers in South Africa had close ties with Israel, heaven forbid that anybody could possibly link those facts to the current ANC attitude or the claims of Pillay.
The links are there for anybody to easily check but doing that doesn’t fit in with the BBC spin on brutal Israel bullying the poor innocent Gaza residents.
BBC news on the Gaza conflict at 11.07 on 24/7/2014:” More
than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict. 34 Israeli have died” Died of what? heart attack? Car crashes? Obesity? Tripping on a paving stone?
Or, maybe, killed in the conflict?
Some deaths are more equal than others.