"The IDF should be wary of taking advice about international law from the many law-breaking nations which routinely hijack the UN Human Rights Council to turn it against Israel, IDF legal chief Brig.-Gen. Sharon Afek said on Monday...
Recounting the UNHRC's condemnation of the IDF's conduct during the Gaza border crisis, Afek said that the UNHRC had also 'characterized our legal establishment as defective and established a commission of inquiry into the incidents' in which IDF soldiers killed Palestinians under disputed circumstances.
He said that the UNHRC inquiry would likely 'almost automatically' join past UNHRC commissions to one-sidedly condemn Israeli actions on the Gaza border.
'Woe to us if we take advice in the areas of justice and law from the majority of the nations which initiated and supported this decision,' said Afek, sounding an unusual rebuke.
'What can we expect from a council' whose debate over the Gaza border issue was held under the title "violations of international law in the context of civilian protests in the Palestinian occupied territories?' he asked.
'The IDF does not need any encouragement or outside pressure in order to investigate its actions,' he said.
Much of the world's democracies' militaries aspire to have investigatory apparatuses as serious as the IDF's, he said..."