Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman says “one need not even wait to read the UN report on Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge, which will be published in coming days, to know that it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.”
In a press statement, Liberman says the Schabas Committee, named after former chairman William Schabas, a Canadian jurist who resigned from the panel after it was revealed that he had once been employed by the PLO, is “in any case a committee that can only represent the stance of the PLO or even Hamas – even without its chairman who resigned.”
Liberman says the committee was “established by the UN Human Rights Council, which is a body whose substance is diametrically opposite its name more than any other, where ‘enlightened’ states like Cuba and Lybia are members.”
“It is obvious,” Liberman concludes, “that the Foreign Ministry’s report on Israel’s conduct during Protective Edge is seriously written and a thousand times more trustworthy than the expected UN report.”
Then foreign minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for a cabinet meeting, at the PM’s office in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2015. (Olivier Fitoussi/POOL)
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