Big Surprise: U.N. Issues Report On Gaza War Blaming Israel

The United Nations, also known as The United Arab & Muslim Nations, has come out with its predictable report on the war in Gaza that Israel was to blame and is to be held responsibile for numerous violations. The report apparently didn't touch on the rockets fired from Hamas and Islamic Jihad into Israel each and every day leading up to Israel's Operation Cast Lead. Here's some of the details from the report at Breitbart:

Israel blasted a harsh UN report on its three-week war on Gaza that is to be submitted to the Security Council on Tuesday, calling it patently biased, tendentious and misleading.
The UN report says the Israeli military intentionally fired at UN facilities and civilians hiding in them during the massive offensive in December-January against the Hamas rulers of Gaza, media reports said.
"The state of Israel rejects the criticism in the committee's summary report, and determines that in both spirit and language, the report is tendentious, patently biased, and ignores the facts presented to the committee," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The foreign ministry said that despite Israel cooperating fully with the committee and presenting it with various intelligence material, "none of this information is reflected in the report."
"The report completely ignores the eight years of attacks against Israel that preceded the decision to initiate the operation, and ignores the difficult circumstances on the ground as dictated by Hamas and its methods of armed operation" from within heavily populated civilian areas, it said.

And then there's this sneaky little section of the story that apparently pro-palestinian Americans are supposed to just skim over:

UN chief Ban Ki-moon received a copy of the report several days ago and eventually softened some of the wording in the three-page document, which he is due to submit to the Security Council on Tuesday, wrote the Ynet news website.

See that? The report was WORSE as originally submitted. One can hardly imagine what it would have been like in its original form. So I have a simple question: Who exactly are the authors of this report? Where is the transparency at the United Nations? Could it be that this report was compiled by members from ....say....Syria? Lebanon? Saudi Arabia? Iran?

For the life of me I cannot figure out why the nation of Israel even belongs to the United Nations but I've been asking that of the United States for years. This body has become nothing but a front group for islamic terror and islamofascism. As far as I can recall, the only action of punishment or criticism of an Arab or islamic country was back when Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq and the U.N. slapped the "Oil for Food" sentence on the Iraqis ...oh wait, that actually turned out to be a corrupt program rewarding the Iraqis, now didn't it?

I'm not quite sure why they just don't put a hijab over the logo of the United Nations.

Israel slams 'patently biased' UN report on Gaza war

"The committee has preferred the claims of Hamas, a murderous terror organisation, and by doing so has misled the world."
The report is the latest criticism of Israel over the 22-day war it launched against the Hamas-run territory on December 27 in response to ongoing rocket fire from Gaza militants.
The war, which ended with Israel and Hamas declaring ceasefires on January 18, killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis and left large swathes of the impoverished territory in ruins.
Several UN buildings, including its headquarters in Gaza and several UN-run schools, were hit by Israeli fire during the offensive.
The foreign ministry said that despite Israel cooperating fully with the committee and presenting it with various intelligence material, "none of this information is reflected in the report."
"The report completely ignores the eight years of attacks against Israel that preceded the decision to initiate the operation, and ignores the difficult circumstances on the ground as dictated by Hamas and its methods of armed operation" from within heavily populated civilian areas, it said.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon received a copy of the report several days ago and eventually softened some of the wording in the three-page document, which he is due to submit to the Security Council on Tuesday, wrote the Ynet news website.
But Israeli officials are worried that the current wording is still too critical towards the Jewish state, the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot said.
The newspaper quoted a member of the American delegation at the United Nations as saying that the report was "unprecedented in its gravity towards Israel, and Israel will have to lick the wounds of the report for many years, if the current wording is accepted as is."
The report, authored by a special committee headed by the former head of the Amnesty International rights group Ian Martin, contains several serious charges against Israeli forces.
"Israel deliberately fired at UN institutions even though it knew it was forbidden. The report accuses Israel of disproportionate fire and excessive use of force. The report also states that Israel shot at Palestinian civilians unnecessarily and excessively," wrote Yediot.