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Half of Russians also agree with the statement “it is a great misfortune that the Soviet Union no longer exists;” 36% disagree. This is a slight decline from 2009, when 58% agreed and 38% disagreed. Russians ages 50 and older tend to express more nostalgia for the Soviet era than do those under 50.

Let's look at just one article: https://archive.is/krfW4

The article misleadingly attributes the report broadly to "the UN."

It omits that the report comes specifically from a 3-person commission created by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an entity with a wildly disproportionate and undeniable structural focus on Israel.

The UNHRC has a permanent 10-item agenda for its regular sessions. Under this framework, Israel is the only country in the world with a dedicated, permanent agenda item ("Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories"). Human rights situations in all other 192 UN member states (including notorious human rights violators like North Korea, Syria, Iran, and South Sudan) are grouped together and debated under a single, general category, Agenda Item 4. As of recent counts, the UNHRC has passed over 110 condemnatory resolutions against Israel.

For context, this is more than double the number passed against Syria (the second-most condemned country at around 45), and vastly outnumbers resolutions targeting Iran, Russia, or North Korea.

The article fails to mention that this specific commission operates under an unprecedented, permanent, open-ended mandate. The founding resolution for this inquiry omitted any mention of Hamas or its terrorism.

The article names the chair, Srinivasan Muralidhar, but omits the names (and thereby the partisan backgrounds) of panel members like Chris Sidoti. Sidoti has a history of pro-Palestinian advocacy and previously accused Jewish organizations of "throwing around accusations of antisemitism like rice at a wedding," breaching UN requirements for strict impartiality.

The article uses judicial language ("independent inquiry," "findings") to dishonestly frame a deeply contested, political document as an undisputed judicial truth while framing the Israeli rebuttal as a simple, defensive dismissal.

Then there's the excremental "report" itself.

The "report" relies on loose images of bullet fragments as definitive proof of IDF responsibility without providing anything like a documented chain of custody or independent forensic verification.

The report routinely uses medical doctors and hospital staff as expert witnesses on military tactics, ballistics, and weapon systems - subjects completely outside their medical training.

The commission relies on family members to determine the tactical intent of a military strike, asking civilians to verify whether an attack was "deliberately targeted" against a child.

The report erases Hamas's 17-year history of embedding military infrastructure inside civilian areas. Further, it fails to investigate or account for the documented deployment of minors as active combatants by Palestinian armed groups.

The report invents its own interpretation of international law, claiming that if a military executes a strike knowing civilians are present, the attack is automatically an intentional war crime. This completely erases the standard legal doctrine of military proportionality.

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