The UNHCR has endorsed its one-sided report in which it refuses to use video evidence because it was “edited” by Israel, but it relies on eyewitness reports even while noting that those reports are untrue.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to endorse the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission that accused Israeli commandos of summarily executing six passengers on a Turkish aid flotilla in May, among them a 19-year-old Turkish American dual citizen who was shot five times, including once in the face.
It sure was a great idea for the Obama administration to rejoin the UNHCR. It really changed things.
The United States, the only country to vote against Wednesday’s action, criticized the panel’s findings as unbalanced. But a U.S. official said that Washington has asked Israel to thoroughly investigate the killing of the Turkish American, Furgan Dogan, and to share the findings with the U.S. government.
After the vote, a senior U.S. official faulted the Human Rights Council for rushing the creation of the panel and failing to make adequate efforts to secure Israeli cooperation. “The report’s language, tone and conclusions are unbalanced,” said Mark Kornblau, a spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Unbalanced? How can that be?
The panel’s chairman, Hudson-Phillips, acknowledged in a statement Tuesday that the original mandate handed to the panel indicated “a certain bias.” He said the panel rewrote the terms to “conform to absolute impartiality.”
“From the evidence of passengers and analysis supplied by a forensic pathologist and ballistic expert, six of the deceased were the victims of summary executions,” he said in the statement.
What is worse than the committee refusing to accept video evidence over eyewitness reports when the two are in disagreement? The way that the media reflexively reports the anti-Israel quotes and does not mention that the video evidence utterly refutes the eyewitnesses main charges, that the Israelis came down from the helicopters shooting. Even the report acknowledges that isn’t true.
The anti-Israel narrative: Nothing will stop it.