This changes nothing,
Posted on 04/02/2011 4:31:43 PM PDT by mojito
We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.
The final report by the U.N. committee of independent experts — chaired by former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis — that followed up on the recommendations of the Goldstone Report has found that “Israel has dedicated significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza” while “the de facto authorities (i.e., Hamas) have not conducted any investigations into the launching of rocket and mortar attacks against Israel.”
Our report found evidence of potential war crimes and “possibly crimes against humanity” by both Israel and Hamas. That the crimes allegedly committed by Hamas were intentional goes without saying — its rockets were purposefully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets.
The allegations of intentionality by Israel were based on the deaths of and injuries to civilians in situations where our fact-finding mission had no evidence on which to draw any other reasonable conclusion. While the investigations published by the Israeli military and recognized in the U.N. committee’s report have established the validity of some incidents that we investigated in cases involving individual soldiers, they also indicate that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com. ...
What will all the lefty Israel-haters say now?
They'll demand another study.
LOL bttt.
“We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.” What a damn lie. They knew everything then, but were hell bent to convict the Israelis. I thought at the time that the Israel Government should have sued goldstone for libel.
...If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document... Our report found evidence of potential war crimes and "possibly crimes against humanity" by both Israel and Hamas. That the crimes allegedly committed by Hamas were intentional goes without saying -- its rockets were purposefully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets. The allegations of intentionality by Israel were [bulls-] ...civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy.I'm sure this will get widespread coverage.
Too late. EuroNazis are already Boycotting, Disinvesting and Sanctioning Israel. A retraction now won’t stop the EuorNazis from their reflexive Anti-Semitism.
Arabs are just the latest adherents to Mein Kampf, and the EuroNazis cheer them on!
Doubtless it will be on every station and in every paper above the fold. :-|
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Goldstone finally woke up and was man enough to admit it. Other than that he is a self hating Jew who gave tons of ammunition to the Muslims for destroying Israel
Israel’s enemies will still use the Goldstone report
Exactly what they were saying yesterday, the day before, before the Goldstone report came out, and before Operation Cast Lead even started. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a change of tone from the Left. But in other developments, a left-wing e-zine, banned in Freep, did publish a pro-Israel article I wrote. Check out the weekend edition of Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/primack04012011.html
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