Now, Israel is somewhat justified in its UN persecution complex in general, because the UN has been used by states that hate Israel as a means of unfairly criticizing it, both in the past and
not too long ago, but the mandate of this specific investigation, and the even-handed reputation of the investigators should be enough to convince them of the legitimacy of it.
I mean, it's not difficult to see an investigation was warranted: civilians were shot, hospitals and schools were bombed, white phosphorous was used in areas with high civilian concentrations. Stuff happened that, if intentional, would qualify as war crimes.
Israel. Truly the shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East.
Funny, Israel attempts here to delegitimatize a UN investigation by refusing to participate in it, then denouncing the results as illegitimate because they didn't participate. Sounds a lot like Iraqi democracy circa 2005, what with the Sunni boycott.