It’s not surprising that Israel is outraged that the U.N. Human Rights Council is about to investigate Israel’s latest genocidal bash against civilians in the Gaza Strip. The investigative commission will be headed by Canadian international lawyer William Schabas, whom Israel already regards as being hostile because Schabas has suggested that Benjamin Netanyahu should be brought before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands.

Says Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman, Yigal Palmor: “This commission’s anti-Israel conclusions have already been written.” Palmor’s paranoid assessment consists of typical Israeli agit-prop aimed at anyone who would criticize a state that regards its own acts of terrorism as entitled by the god of the Old Testament.

The unfortunate fact for Israel is that it is in violation of International Law on several counts, including: building settlements in the occupied territories; occupying the Sheba Farms in Southern Lebanon (Lebanese national territory); use of cluster bombs in areas with dense civilian populations (against the Geneva Conventions); and apartheid measures against Palestinian residents of the occupied territories.

Fact, too, for the United States is that we are in violation of our own arms-export treaty in supplying Israel with advanced weaponry that it uses against civilians. So Netanyahu might have company in the Hague, when he faces long-overdue charges of war crimes.

Wrote Shakespeare: “For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ.”

Tom Wright

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