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   Israel Won't Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements   
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   Slams Idea of Probing West Bank on Principle   
      
   by Jason Ditz, July 06, 2012               .   
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   Israeli officials today reiterated their 'outrage' at the United Nations   
   Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity   
   in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with   
   any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the   
   territory.   
      
   The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding   
   mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the   
   Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.   
      
   Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed,   
   insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be 'biased' and   
   that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on   
   'non-democratic countries.'   
      
   Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago   
   when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus   
   only on the occupation's impact on Palestinians and not its legality,   
   since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal   
   and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a   
   violation of the Geneva Conventions.   
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