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Another UN Human Rights Fraud: The Head of a Gaza Inquiry Was on the Palestinian Payroll
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Canadian law professor William Schabas, who resigned this week as chairman of the UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict, should never have been tapped for the job. His public statements on Israel made clear he wouldn't be an unbiased fact-finder. The inquiry was formed to investigate war crimes during last summer's Gaza conflict, which broke out after the Gaza-based terror group Hamas fired rockets at Israeli population centers. Yet the UN wanted to investigate only Israel. That's a problem, because genuine rights abuses worthy of investigation include Hamas' placement of rocket launchers in schools and hospitals and its strategy of firing on Israeli civilians. Schabas' departure won't salvage the credibility of a commission that has been politicized from the start.