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November 6, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-blind-eye-to-hamas-atrocities/story-e6frg6zo-1225794831291

A Blind Eye to Hamas Atrocities

[The Australian] Robert Goot - From the moment the UN Human Rights Council decided to establish a "fact finding" mission "to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying power, Israel, against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, due to the current aggression," it was obvious that it was not intended to, nor would it be an impartial inquiry. The terms of reference were crafted to ignore the hundreds of rockets deliberately aimed and fired by Hamas at civilians in Israel prior to the Gaza war, and to pillory Israel for defending its citizens. The writer is president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

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