UN's Steady Israel-Bashing Reveals True Face Of A Failed System

"Hamas launched thousands of rockets at Israel last summer, and hid its weapons in schools, including United Nations-run facilities and other civilian sites.

"Yet, in a July 2014 report issued by the U.N. Human Rights Council directly in the wake of the rocket attacks, the agency lambasted Israel, and rehashed every charge seemingly ever made against the Jewish state.

"And it is about to do it again in a report due next month.

"In last year's resolution – which ran four single-spaced pages -- Hamas, incredibly, was never cited by name.

"That 2014 resolution was the usual U.N. stew, referencing previous anti-Israel measures and new allegations about Israeli 'human rights violations.' It came out of yet another special Human Rights Council session unfairly attacking Israel. This, too, would not be unusual for the U.N. since nearly one-third of all special sessions of the Human Rights Council are devoted to the situation in the 'Occupied Palestinian Territories.'

"The initial resolution was notable for its focus on Gaza, with little regard for the impact of the indiscriminate firing on Israelis. The resolution charges Israel with indiscriminate attacks and grave 'human rights violations.' But there is no condemnation for all of the indiscriminate Hamas rocket barrages that ignited the conflict last summer or any note that Israelis have been the targets of indiscriminate Hamas rockets for well more than 10 years.

"What about the human rights of Israeli citizens?

"This willful and perverse omission of Hamas from the resolution was not only brazen, but also par for the course for the Human Rights Council, which, at a time of global turmoil, particularly in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, still devotes more time and attention to Israel than to human rights crises in such places as Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan and Syria.

"And now we are on the eve of results from yet another U.N.-sponsored "fact-finding" effort about Israel.