NY Judge Takes Over Un Gaza Probe After Israel Critic Resigns

[Purveyor]

Source: Times of Israel

By Lazar Berman February 4, 2015, 1:30 am 17

New York jurist Mary McGowan Davis will take the helm of a UN probe of last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip after inquiry chief William Schabas stepped down over allegations of anti-Israel bias, a spokesman said Tuesday.

McGowan Davis had served as a justice on New York’s Supreme Court, and chaired the UN follow-up committee to its probe into the 2008-2009 war between Israel and Hamas.

McGowan Davis is thought to be more sympathetic to Israel’s position during the 50-day war than Schabas, according to Haaretz. Nonetheless, Foreign Ministry sources told the paper that the report the committee is slated to publish on March 23 will still be highly critical of Israel.

Schabas sent a resignation letter to the head of the UN Human Rights Council on Monday after Israel accused him of having a “conflict of interest,” according to Rolando Gomez, a spokesman for the UN Human Rights Council.






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[Ken Burch]

1. Great. So the fix is in and the whiitewash is assured.

And Netanyahu gets away with murdering 400 Gazan children in cold blood. because they were just little Arabs, and that means their lives meant nothing.

Great.

[iandhr]

2. Excellent

No doubt this is anger the Hamas fan club here.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. There is no "Hamas fan club" here.

But there are many who think the Palestinians deserve their own state.

And there are many who are appalled by the mass murder Israel perpetuated in Gaza last year.

[iandhr]

4. Re: Palestinians deserve their own state.

I believe that as well.


It wasn't a mass murder it was a war. Both sides were shooting at each other. When people fire rockets at you you have every right to shoot back.