Israel announced on Thursday that it will not cooperate with a United Nations commission tasked with investigating violations against Palestinians in Gaza, alleging that the commission and its leader are “morally bankrupt” and “fundamentally biased” against them. Meirav Eilon Shahar, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN, told commission leader Navi Pillay that “there is simply no reason to believe that Israel will receive reasonable, equitable and non-discriminatory treatment from the Council, or from this Commission of Inquiry”. The commission, established by the Human Rights Council …