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Is this the same UN whose Human Rights Commission...

voted last week to condemn Israel for "mass killings" in Jenin? [sarcasm] Sure sounds like an objective and impartial group to me! [/sarcasm]

For the Israeli view (they actually have one, imagine that!), you can try here.

"Even if one could overlook the UN's normal anti-Israel bias, it is hard to believe in the objectivity of a fact-finding commission when the same UN that is sending the commission has already, without waiting for its conclusions, passed a resolution condemning Israel for "mass killings" of Palestinians in Jenin. Yet that is precisely what the UN Human Rights Commission did last Monday, three days after the Security Council approved the fact-finding mission.

Also problematic is the presence of Cornelio Sommaruga, former head of the International Red Cross, as one of the three commission members. Reports that he has made anti-Semitic statements in the past, such as comparing the Jewish star to a swastika, are obviously troubling. Yet even discounting these reports, the fact remains that as head of the Red Cross, he approved and publicly defended the organization's singling out of Israel as the only country in the world whose emergency medical service is denied membership. In any court of law, such evidence of bias would disqualify Sommaruga from the jury."

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