The UN has appointed Richard Goldstone to lead a four-member team of experts.

The BBC reports today.

But in time-honoured BBC-speak they forget to mention that any such investigation, whatever its legal status, should, and surely would, investigate both Israel AND Hamas.

Oh no. This is what the BBC says:

The fact-finding mission, which will aim to provide clarity on the legality of the deaths and destruction…

Of course, that means death and destruction caused by Israel. The BBC has already decided that Israel were murderous, destructive aggressors.  No mention of Hamas yet.

The council voted to set up the investigation into at a special meeting in January, after widespread allegations of war crimes committed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Widespread by Hamas and the Hamas-infiltrated UNWRA in Gaza and so far all completely refuted.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas is widely accused of basing its forces within heavily populated areas, allegations it denies.

Hah! What a lot of utter garbage. Hamas ONLY fought within heavily populated areas. Hamas is a terrorist organisation. No mention of that.

[Goldstone] is also on the board of governors at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Mr Goldstone said he was “shocked, as a Jew”, to be invited to head the mission.

 BBC-speak to imply that he is shocked that his fellow Jews are war criminals.

“I’ve taken a deep interest in what happens in Israel. I’m associated with organisations that have worked in Israel.

“And I believe I can approach the daunting task that I have accepted in an even-handed and impartial manner.”

 So the able Mr Goldstone falls straight into the trap set by the UN. As a Jew, if his little group concludes there were war crimes, then his findings will carry more weight because he is a Jew. If they find Israel did not commit war crimes he will be pilloried by the usual suspects as being biased because he is a Jew. It’s the same trick the Nazis used when they appointed Jewish police officers in the ghettos. And Goldstone fell for it. Or, maybe, he thought that if he didn’t accept, than someone less neutral would lead the investigations. Precisely the dilemma he was tricked into.

Am I being paranoid. You bet I am. Will Israel co-operate? Should it? 

“This committee is instructed not to seek out the truth but to single out Israel for alleged crimes,” said Yigal Palmor, spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

So he’s made up his mind.