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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=11475
Shelve the Schabas Report
(Israel Hayom) Dore Gold - Prof. William Schabas accepted the offer to head the latest UN commission of inquiry while knowing that he was tainted since he had served as a PLO adviser. The whole process of UN fact-finding is deeply flawed. These commissions project an aura of legality, with statements about international humanitarian law, but they are really political bodies, which allows them to serve as a focal point for the current efforts underway to delegitimize the State of Israel. The writer, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN, is president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.