Abu Ghraib did not merit a UN investigation. The United States would have vetoed any such effort from the UN. British soldiers killing Iraqi POWs did not merit a UN investigation. The United States would have vetoed any such effort from the UN. Today? The Obama administration is allowing the UN to push forward with an international investigation of Israel—and only Israel—in the Gaza flotilla.
A diplomat with one Security Council member country said that 14 of 15 nations had expressed support for some form of panel established by the secretary general — rather than by a Security Council vote, which the United States could block — to investigate the deaths on a Turkish ship bound for Gaza. The U.S. was the sole nation not to support the measure in the closed session, the source said.
[…] The U.S. position on the panel — amid intense support for it among U.N. members — has been to wait and see what Ban proposes.
Yes, because UN investigations of Israel have turned out so well in the past.
And yet, a year and a half after Operation Cast Lead, an IDF soldier may face manslaughter charges in the deaths of two Palestinian civilians. But Israel cannot conduct its own impartial investigations. Just ask the world. Or perhaps just ask one of my commenters:
we couldn’t have somebody who actually LIKES israel, investigating israel. the only people qualified to give an unbiased investigation of israel are people who hate israel, you know.
Exactly.