Israel refuses to cooperate with UN

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JERUSALEM: Israel will not cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into its 50-day war with rocket-firing militants in Gaza this summer, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.

“Since the Schabas commission is not an inquiry but a commission that gives its conclusions in advance, Israel will not cooperate with the commission of the UN Human Rights Council over the last conflict with Hamas,” foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement.

The decision had been taken because of the “obsessive hostility against Israel of this commission and the words of its president against Israel and its leaders,” he added.

In August, Canadian international law expert William Schabas was named as the head of the UN commission, angering Israel, where he is widely regarded as hostile to the Jewish state over reported calls to bring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court. Israel has long had stormy relations with the UN Human Rights Council.

Published in Dawn, November 13th , 2014

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Bharat Kumar Jaiswal

Nov 13, 2014 08:56am

When Israel fired rocket, it is war crime.But when Hama fired srockets that was nothing. Human Right Commission should punish Hamas for making innocent citizens as human schield.

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Husain Jan

Nov 13, 2014 09:23am

This is sad but not a news. The news - in the real sense of the word-- would be if and when Israel starts accepting HR reports and starts co-operating with such findings. Such a change in Israel behaviour is not on cards ...not in any foreseeable future and until such time that it stops getting unconditional support from its mentors.

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omer khan shaheen

Nov 13, 2014 11:20am

@Bharat Kumar Jaiswal, My neighbor with triple standards, did you count the number of babies and women murdered? "I am sure you closed your eyes, ears and mouth when that happened, because "of course!, You have a moral obligation to save your tail!!! for all that you have done in Kashmir!".

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Akhtar

Nov 13, 2014 01:08pm

Going by what other nations get for refusing the UN Israel should be sanctioned and punished. Israel as a country was and is a mistake.

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Bharat Kumar Jaiswal

Nov 13, 2014 06:23pm

@omer khan shaheen Dear what is your govt is doing in Baluchistan..... Don't mix match two different things .

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Muhammad iqbal

Nov 13, 2014 09:52pm

Israel is the boss of UN and not vice varsa

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numbersnumbers

Nov 14, 2014 07:34am

@omer khan shaheen And Of course you are OK with Hamas firing thousands of military grade surface to surface rockets directly into israeli cities, hoping to slaughter israeli women and children!!

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