Yet Again, the U.N. Is Treating Hamas Lies as Fact

The U.N. has done this dance so many times now it barely qualifies as news, except that it keeps working. A commission puts out a report, the report leans on numbers and narratives that trace back to Hamas-run ministries or activists with an obvious stake in the outcome, and within a day it's being cited by wire services and NGOs as settled fact. Nobody bothers to ask who's counting, or how, or why the group doing the counting also happens to be the group being investigated.

This isn't a minor sourcing quibble. When the body meant to establish an independent record of a war just recycles claims from one side, it stops being a fact-finding commission and starts being a megaphone. Israel gets no benefit of the doubt, no cross-examination of the numbers, no scrutiny of motive. Hamas gets treated like a neutral statistical agency.

The U.N. has a long, well-documented habit of treating Israel as guilty until proven guiltier. That habit doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from institutional bodies stacked with governments who never wanted Israel to exist in the first place, and it shows every time a "commission of inquiry" turns out to be a stenography exercise.