By Haaretz Service Haaretz - 20 October 2009 The author of a damning report on Israel’s winter offensive against Hamas in Gaza, Richard Goldstone, has said that Foreign Minster Avigdor Lieberman does not want there to be an Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Amira Hass: Family who lost 29 members in Gaza war — We envy the dead
Haaretz - 19 October 2009 Richard Goldstone visited the Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun in late June to tour the compound of the extended Samouni family, the subject of coverage here in recent weeks (“‘I fed him like a baby bird,’” September 17; “Death in the Samouni compound,” September 25). Twenty-nine members of the family, all [...]
PLO official admits “mistake” in delaying Goldstone report
Ma’an/Agencies – 7 October 2009 Bethlehem – – A senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official admitted for the first time on Wednesday that the Palestinian leadership made a mistake by delaying action on a United Nations report on war crimes in Gaza. “We have the courage to admit there was a mistake,” said Yasser Abed [...]
Jonathan Cook: How Israel bought off UN’s war crimes probe — Goldstone report’s fate sealed by threats to Palestinian economy
Media Monitors Network Tuesday, October 6, 2009 “…according to Israeli and Palestinian analysts, diplomatic arm-twisting was not the only factor in the PA’s change of heart. Haaretz newspaper reported last week that, behind the scenes, Palestinian officials had faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy.” Israel celebrated [...]
US ‘pressured Abbas on UN report’
Al Jazeera 04 October 2009 Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, urged the Palestinian Authority (PA) not to accept the findings of a UN report into Israel’s war on Gaza because of fears it might scupper attempts to restart peace talks, Palestinian sources have told Al Jazeera. Clinton reportedly called Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian [...]
Wiesel, Dershowitz: Human Rights Watch reform needed
In open letter, members of NGO Monitor’s advisory board say HRW ‘has degenerated into a political lobby aimed primarily at Israel,’ call for replacement of senior officials, particularly in Middle East division Ynetnews 29 September 2009 Leading academics, journalists, legal and security experts, including Elie Wiesel, Professor Alan Dershowitz, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey [...]
Goldstone: War crimes impunity impedes Mid-East peace
Mail & Guardian Online 29 September 2009 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND A lack of accountability for war crimes committed in the Middle East has reached “crisis point”, undermining any hope for peace in the region, a United Nations human rights investigator charged on Tuesday.
Richard A. Falk: Why The Goldstone Report Matters
One reason for Israeli worry stemming from the report, is the green light given to national courts throughout the world to enforce international criminal law against Israelis suspects should they travel abroad and be detained for prosecution or extradition in some third country. Such individuals could be charged with war crimes arising from their involvement [...]
Goldstone’s daughter: My father’s participation softened UN Gaza report
By Haaretz Service Haaretz 16 September 2009 Had Richard Goldstone not served as the head of the UN inquiry into the Gaza war, the accusations against Israel would have been harsher, Goldstone’s daughter, Nicole, said in an interview conducted in Hebrew with Army Radio on Wednesday.
Israeli officials in fear of war crimes charges
Middle East Online 16 September 2009 Israeli PM huddles with legal advisors over possible involvement of International Criminal Court on Gaza. TEL AVIV – Israel mounted a diplomatic offensive on Wednesday, trying to contain damage from a damning UN report that accused the Jewish state and Palestinian resistance of war crimes during the Gaza war.
Judge Goldstone and the pollution of argument
Attacks on human rights groups that probe Israel’s Gaza offensive are an insult to reasonable public debate Antony Lerman The Guardian, Tuesday 15 September 2009 The despicable attacks on human rights organisations investigating Israel’s Gaza offensive in January confirm Churchill’s observation: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to [...]
UN investigator: Gaza war report will be balanced
By Haaretz Service Haaretz Sat., July 11, 2009 A United Nations report on Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza at the start of the year will be fair, balanced and unbiased, Israel Radio quoted the head of a team of UN investigators as saying on Saturday. Richard Goldstone made the pledge during an interview [...]
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