UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Israel urges world: Reject Goldstone report on Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121036.html
Shalev: Goldstone report diverting focus from pressing Mideast issues.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121045.html
Barak to EU foreign ministers: Don't adopt Goldstone.
Defense Minister Barak launches persuasion campaign ahead of debate on Goldstone report
... Jerusalem is preparing for a broad diplomatic and public relations campaign, and are even planning on using this week's mysterious explosion in southern Lebanon as argumentation against the Goldstone Report in a bid to deflect international attention from the report.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 34,00.html
Israel bracing for diplomatic battle on Gaza probe ahead of UN vote set to take place Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120972.html
Palestinian draft resolution on Goldstone, Gaza and Jerusalem
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121025.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121036.html
Shalev: Goldstone report diverting focus from pressing Mideast issues.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121045.html
Barak to EU foreign ministers: Don't adopt Goldstone.
Defense Minister Barak launches persuasion campaign ahead of debate on Goldstone report
... Jerusalem is preparing for a broad diplomatic and public relations campaign, and are even planning on using this week's mysterious explosion in southern Lebanon as argumentation against the Goldstone Report in a bid to deflect international attention from the report.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 34,00.html
Israel bracing for diplomatic battle on Gaza probe ahead of UN vote set to take place Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120972.html
Palestinian draft resolution on Goldstone, Gaza and Jerusalem
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121025.html
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Netanyahu: We must focus efforts against Goldstone report.
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Allies press Israel to probe Goldstone Gaza report findings.
The United States, Britain and France all said Israel should look into findings published last month by a UN mission led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone. ....
Goldstone's report called for the Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague if the Israelis or the Palestinians fail to take up the issue. ....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121045.html
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Abbas gov't will fall if Goldstone report not adopted.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121252.html
PA support for Goldstone probe is about saving Abbas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121245.html
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Israel: No peace talks unless UNHRC drops Gaza report.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10 ... =351020202
Barak calls diplomats ahead of Goldstone debate.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke spoke Tuesday evening with the foreign ministers of France, Britain, Spain and Norway, as well as other statesmen and diplomats, ahead of a special session of the Human Rights Council scheduled for Thursday.
"The democratic nations of the world must understand that adopting the report will cripple their ability to deal with terror organizations, and terror in general," Barak told them, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The United Nations Security Council is expected to discuss the report Wednesday during its regular monthly meeting on the Middle East, which was moved up a week after a Libyan request for a special session to discuss the Goldstone report was turned down.
The Human Rights Council debate is also set to discuss the recent unrest in Jerusalem over the Temple Mount and the blockade of Gaza, Ha'aretz reported, citing a resolution that is set to be submitted by the Palestinian Authority.
The Goldstone report on Israel's military operation in Gaza last winter accuses Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/14/ ... one-debate
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Gaza in dire need of aid, UNWRA official says.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- John Ging, speaking Tuesday in Washington, stressed that the blocking of aid to Gaza is effectively "destroying a society" and creating a culture of "human misery and suffering."
"The siege on Gaza is illegal," Ging said.
UNRWA has supplied aid to Gaza residents for more than 60 years and is responsible for providing health care relief, social services and a school system.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/14/ ... ian-action
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Allies push Israel for Gaza probe.
Israel has come under pressure from its allies to investigate UN allegations of possible war crimes by its army during its Gaza offensive last winter.
Britain's UN envoy urged Israel to hold "full, credible and impartial" investigations, echoing similar calls from his US and French counterparts.
A report by a UN mission led by Richard Goldstone accused both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes. ...
The Goldstone report accuses Israel of using disproportionate force and deliberately harming civilians during the 22-day conflict which began on 27 December 2008.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8308367.stm
Israel is seriously considering restricting travel to Europe by its senior officials and military officers, fearing they might be arrested in the wake of a disputed U.N. report that accuses the Jewish state of targeting civilians in its Gaza war earlier this year.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... top10_read
UK rejects Goldstone Report at UNHRC.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull
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Allies press Israel to probe Goldstone Gaza report findings.
The United States, Britain and France all said Israel should look into findings published last month by a UN mission led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone. ....
Goldstone's report called for the Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague if the Israelis or the Palestinians fail to take up the issue. ....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121045.html
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Abbas gov't will fall if Goldstone report not adopted.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121252.html
PA support for Goldstone probe is about saving Abbas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121245.html
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Israel: No peace talks unless UNHRC drops Gaza report.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10 ... =351020202
Barak calls diplomats ahead of Goldstone debate.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke spoke Tuesday evening with the foreign ministers of France, Britain, Spain and Norway, as well as other statesmen and diplomats, ahead of a special session of the Human Rights Council scheduled for Thursday.
"The democratic nations of the world must understand that adopting the report will cripple their ability to deal with terror organizations, and terror in general," Barak told them, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The United Nations Security Council is expected to discuss the report Wednesday during its regular monthly meeting on the Middle East, which was moved up a week after a Libyan request for a special session to discuss the Goldstone report was turned down.
The Human Rights Council debate is also set to discuss the recent unrest in Jerusalem over the Temple Mount and the blockade of Gaza, Ha'aretz reported, citing a resolution that is set to be submitted by the Palestinian Authority.
The Goldstone report on Israel's military operation in Gaza last winter accuses Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/14/ ... one-debate
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/14/ ... ate-begins
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Gaza in dire need of aid, UNWRA official says.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- John Ging, speaking Tuesday in Washington, stressed that the blocking of aid to Gaza is effectively "destroying a society" and creating a culture of "human misery and suffering."
"The siege on Gaza is illegal," Ging said.
UNRWA has supplied aid to Gaza residents for more than 60 years and is responsible for providing health care relief, social services and a school system.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/14/ ... ian-action
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Allies push Israel for Gaza probe.
Israel has come under pressure from its allies to investigate UN allegations of possible war crimes by its army during its Gaza offensive last winter.
Britain's UN envoy urged Israel to hold "full, credible and impartial" investigations, echoing similar calls from his US and French counterparts.
A report by a UN mission led by Richard Goldstone accused both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes. ...
The Goldstone report accuses Israel of using disproportionate force and deliberately harming civilians during the 22-day conflict which began on 27 December 2008.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8308367.stm
Israel is seriously considering restricting travel to Europe by its senior officials and military officers, fearing they might be arrested in the wake of a disputed U.N. report that accuses the Jewish state of targeting civilians in its Gaza war earlier this year.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... top10_read
UK rejects Goldstone Report at UNHRC.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Have you noticed the near-compete silence in our media about the Goldstone UN report concerning Israel's War Crimes. - Talk about media control .... !!!
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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
WHY IS ISRAEL SO UPSET AT THE GOLDSTONE REPORT?
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/1 ... tter-what/
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UN body okays Goldstone Gaza report accusing Israel of war crimes. (Snips)
The report calls for the UN Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court if the Israelis or Palestinians fail to investigate the alleged abuses themselves. ...
The countries that voted against the report included the U.S., Italy, Holland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Ukraine.
China, Russia, Egypt, India, Jordan, Pakistan, South Africa, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, Djibouti, Liberia, Qatar, Senegal, Brazil, Mauritius, Nicaragua and Nigeria voted in favor of the report.
The abstaining countries included: Bosnia, Burkina-Faso, Cameron, Gabon, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Belgium, South Korea, Slovenia and Uruguay. ...
The French delegates joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent diplomatic attempts to lobby European counterparts, including Holland, Spain and Denmark, to back Israel's rejection of the report's findings. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121610.html
... The resolution passed 25-6, with eleven countries abstaining. Five states, including France and the UK, declined to vote. .....
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -vote.html
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/10/16/ ... rs-israel/
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
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American Jews Rethink Israel.
This year has seen a dramatic shift in American Jews' attitudes toward Israel. In January many liberal Jews were shocked by the Gaza war, in which Israel used overwhelming force against a mostly defenseless civilian population unable to flee.
Then came the rise to power of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose explicitly anti-Arab platform was at odds with an American Jewish electorate that had just voted 4 to 1 for a minority president. Throw in angry Israelis writing about the "rot in the Diaspora," and it's little wonder young American Jews feel increasingly indifferent about a country that has been at the center of Jewish identity for four decades. ....
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091102/horowitz_weiss
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Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements.
.... widespread building activity commenced three weeks ago in at least 12 settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121544.html
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Language of Association of America protesting a proposed resolution critical of ... claims Israel is "stifling education on all levels in the occupied territories. ...
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/15/ ... resolution
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(Israeli) Officers Suspended on suspicion they vandalized cars.
Following B'Tselem's intervention, the army opened a military police investigation into the vandalizing of cars in the southern Hebron hills and suspended two officers suspected of involvement. On 12-13th of October, B'Tselem documented 8 cars used to transport Palestinian workers that were vandalized, allegedly by soldiers.
http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp
Rich Siegel "In Palestine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2axqjh ... dded#at=46
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PRO-ISRAEL PAC CONTRIBUTIONS TO 2008 CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_ ... charts.pdf
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UN body okays Goldstone Gaza report accusing Israel of war crimes. (Snips)
The report calls for the UN Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court if the Israelis or Palestinians fail to investigate the alleged abuses themselves. ...
The countries that voted against the report included the U.S., Italy, Holland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Ukraine.
China, Russia, Egypt, India, Jordan, Pakistan, South Africa, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, Djibouti, Liberia, Qatar, Senegal, Brazil, Mauritius, Nicaragua and Nigeria voted in favor of the report.
The abstaining countries included: Bosnia, Burkina-Faso, Cameron, Gabon, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Belgium, South Korea, Slovenia and Uruguay. ...
The French delegates joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent diplomatic attempts to lobby European counterparts, including Holland, Spain and Denmark, to back Israel's rejection of the report's findings. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121610.html
... The resolution passed 25-6, with eleven countries abstaining. Five states, including France and the UK, declined to vote. .....
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -vote.html
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/10/16/ ... rs-israel/
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
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American Jews Rethink Israel.
This year has seen a dramatic shift in American Jews' attitudes toward Israel. In January many liberal Jews were shocked by the Gaza war, in which Israel used overwhelming force against a mostly defenseless civilian population unable to flee.
Then came the rise to power of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose explicitly anti-Arab platform was at odds with an American Jewish electorate that had just voted 4 to 1 for a minority president. Throw in angry Israelis writing about the "rot in the Diaspora," and it's little wonder young American Jews feel increasingly indifferent about a country that has been at the center of Jewish identity for four decades. ....
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091102/horowitz_weiss
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Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements.
.... widespread building activity commenced three weeks ago in at least 12 settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121544.html
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Language of Association of America protesting a proposed resolution critical of ... claims Israel is "stifling education on all levels in the occupied territories. ...
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/15/ ... resolution
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(Israeli) Officers Suspended on suspicion they vandalized cars.
Following B'Tselem's intervention, the army opened a military police investigation into the vandalizing of cars in the southern Hebron hills and suspended two officers suspected of involvement. On 12-13th of October, B'Tselem documented 8 cars used to transport Palestinian workers that were vandalized, allegedly by soldiers.
http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp
Rich Siegel "In Palestine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2axqjh ... dded#at=46
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PRO-ISRAEL PAC CONTRIBUTIONS TO 2008 CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_ ... charts.pdf
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http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hr ... ission.htm
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hr ... Report.pdf (6.5 MB) !!!!
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hr ... 290909.doc
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Gaza: A Death Camp ?
http://www.paltelegraph.com/hot-topic/2 ... eath-camp-
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http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hr ... ission.htm
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hr ... Report.pdf (6.5 MB) !!!!
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hr ... 290909.doc
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Gaza: A Death Camp ?
http://www.paltelegraph.com/hot-topic/2 ... eath-camp-
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http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Winograd final Report.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/20 ... 0-Jan-2008
English Summary of the Winograd Commission Report
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/world ... d-web.html
Winograd: The use of cluster bombs not in line with int'l law
IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
The cluster rounds which don't detonate on impact, believed by the United Nations to be around 40% of those fired by the IDF in Lebanon, remain on the ground as unexploded munitions, effectively littering the landscape with thousands of land mines which will continue to claim victims long after the war has ended.
Because of their high level of failure to detonate, it is believed that there are around 500,000 unexploded munitions on the ground in Lebanon. To date 12 Lebanese civilians have been killed by these mines since the end of the war. ...
It has come to light that IDF soldiers fired phosphorous rounds in order to cause fires in Lebanon. ...
A direct hit from a phosphorous shell typically causes severe burns and a slow, painful death.
International law forbids the use of weapons that cause "excessive injury and unnecessary suffering", and many experts are of the opinion that phosphorous rounds fall directly in that category.
The International Red Cross has determined that international law forbids the use of phosphorous and other types of flammable rounds against personnel, both civilian and military
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/20 ... 0-Jan-2008
English Summary of the Winograd Commission Report
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/world ... d-web.html
Winograd: The use of cluster bombs not in line with int'l law
IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
The cluster rounds which don't detonate on impact, believed by the United Nations to be around 40% of those fired by the IDF in Lebanon, remain on the ground as unexploded munitions, effectively littering the landscape with thousands of land mines which will continue to claim victims long after the war has ended.
Because of their high level of failure to detonate, it is believed that there are around 500,000 unexploded munitions on the ground in Lebanon. To date 12 Lebanese civilians have been killed by these mines since the end of the war. ...
It has come to light that IDF soldiers fired phosphorous rounds in order to cause fires in Lebanon. ...
A direct hit from a phosphorous shell typically causes severe burns and a slow, painful death.
International law forbids the use of weapons that cause "excessive injury and unnecessary suffering", and many experts are of the opinion that phosphorous rounds fall directly in that category.
The International Red Cross has determined that international law forbids the use of phosphorous and other types of flammable rounds against personnel, both civilian and military
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html
http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
China: Don’t Discuss Goldstone in Security Council.
(IsraelNN.com) China says it will not support the discussion of the controversial Goldstone Report in the UN Security Council and at the International Court in the Hague.
... while China supported adopting the report at the UN Human Rights Council, she will oppose discussing it in other UN forums.
According to Knesset Speaker Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin, this is an important diplomatic achievement for an Israeli parliamentary delegation, .... Mexico [] also expressed sympathy for Israel’s position regarding the Goldstone Report.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/ ... spx/172964
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121529.html
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/10 ... ll-of.html
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Friday that Israel must prepare for a protracted struggle against a damning United Nations report on its winter offensive in Gaza, after the UN's Human Rights Council endorsed the report.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121614.html
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'U.S. to stand by Israel in the fight against Goldstone report'.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122612.html
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Goldstone doubts Security Council to debate war report.
Richard Goldstone said he believes Russia, France and China will oppose having the report on Operation Cast Lead in Gaza debated in the UN Security Council. ....
Goldstone's comments come at a time when Israel is undergoing a diplomatic struggle aimed at minimizing damage caused by the report on the international front.
Alongside the PR campaign to be launched by Israeli representatives against the report, a security cabinet meeting on Wednesday raised the possibility of succumbing to international pressure and appointing an inquiry committee to probe the Gaza war.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 81,00.html
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ISRAEL’S RESPONSE TO UN; OPERATION CAST LEAD WAS NOT A WAR!
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/1 ... not-a-war/
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(IsraelNN.com) China says it will not support the discussion of the controversial Goldstone Report in the UN Security Council and at the International Court in the Hague.
... while China supported adopting the report at the UN Human Rights Council, she will oppose discussing it in other UN forums.
According to Knesset Speaker Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin, this is an important diplomatic achievement for an Israeli parliamentary delegation, .... Mexico [] also expressed sympathy for Israel’s position regarding the Goldstone Report.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/ ... spx/172964
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121529.html
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/10 ... ll-of.html
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Friday that Israel must prepare for a protracted struggle against a damning United Nations report on its winter offensive in Gaza, after the UN's Human Rights Council endorsed the report.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121614.html
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'U.S. to stand by Israel in the fight against Goldstone report'.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122612.html
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Goldstone doubts Security Council to debate war report.
Richard Goldstone said he believes Russia, France and China will oppose having the report on Operation Cast Lead in Gaza debated in the UN Security Council. ....
Goldstone's comments come at a time when Israel is undergoing a diplomatic struggle aimed at minimizing damage caused by the report on the international front.
Alongside the PR campaign to be launched by Israeli representatives against the report, a security cabinet meeting on Wednesday raised the possibility of succumbing to international pressure and appointing an inquiry committee to probe the Gaza war.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 81,00.html
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ISRAEL’S RESPONSE TO UN; OPERATION CAST LEAD WAS NOT A WAR!
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/1 ... not-a-war/
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http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
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Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Goldstone tells Obama: Show me flaws in Gaza report. (Snips. 10-22-09)
South African jurist Richard Goldstone, who led a damning United Nations probe into Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter, has challenged Barack Obama's administration to justify its claims that the report is one-sided and flawed.
Goldstone's report, commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council, accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza offensive. Israel has rejected the report as biased and the U.S. has said it would support Israel's efforts to prevent a UN Security Council debate on the report. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122893.html
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Why Israel failed in the Gaza war. (Snips)
"Operation Cast Lead was the most planned operation in the annals of Israel's wars," ...
Diplomatic thinking needs to be multidimensional. It must balance the need to deal a decisive blow to the enemy and the need to avoid damage to Israel's image that greatly exceeds the benefit of unleashing the blows. Operation Cast Lead did not meet this minimum demand.
It has once again become clear that key recommendations by the Winograd Committee that investigated the Second Lebanon War were not implemented. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121731.html
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U.S., EU pile on pressure for Israel to create own panel on Gaza op
The United States and a number of important EU countries are pressing Israel to establish an independent commission of inquiry into the findings of the Goldstone report on last winter's Gaza offensive. ... the only way to prevent Israel's isolation and possible action in the United Nations or International Criminal Court is by establishing a committee.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122796.html
South African jurist Richard Goldstone, who led a damning United Nations probe into Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter, has challenged Barack Obama's administration to justify its claims that the report is one-sided and flawed.
Goldstone's report, commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council, accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza offensive. Israel has rejected the report as biased and the U.S. has said it would support Israel's efforts to prevent a UN Security Council debate on the report. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122893.html
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Why Israel failed in the Gaza war. (Snips)
"Operation Cast Lead was the most planned operation in the annals of Israel's wars," ...
Diplomatic thinking needs to be multidimensional. It must balance the need to deal a decisive blow to the enemy and the need to avoid damage to Israel's image that greatly exceeds the benefit of unleashing the blows. Operation Cast Lead did not meet this minimum demand.
It has once again become clear that key recommendations by the Winograd Committee that investigated the Second Lebanon War were not implemented. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121731.html
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U.S., EU pile on pressure for Israel to create own panel on Gaza op
The United States and a number of important EU countries are pressing Israel to establish an independent commission of inquiry into the findings of the Goldstone report on last winter's Gaza offensive. ... the only way to prevent Israel's isolation and possible action in the United Nations or International Criminal Court is by establishing a committee.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122796.html
http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
Lieberman to Ban: Don't let Goldstone report gain ground in UN. (Snips)
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has asked United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to keep the Goldstone Commission report on Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip from advancing to further votes within the international body.
The damning report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council last week despite opposition from Israel and its allies. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123168.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123047.html
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Brandeis to host Gaza violence forum.
Brandeis University said yesterday that it will host a forum next month with South African Judge Richard Goldstone, the author of a fiercely controversial United Nations fact-finding report that accused Israeli forces as well as Palestinian fighters of committing war crimes in Gaza. ....
The Goldstone-Gold forum on Nov. 5 will be cohosted by the university’s International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life and by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. ...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/hi ... nce_forum/
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Israel confirms settlers ramping up West Bank construction.
The defense establishment confirmed that in recent weeks West Bank settlers have been making a noticeable effort to expedite construction, in an attempt to maximize the "facts on the ground" before the United States and Israel reach an agreement on a settlement freeze. ....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123042.html
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Dovish Jews? Excommunicate them. (Snips)
We don't need them. They'll never see things our way, no matter what. Let them go.
It's a new Israeli approach which borrows from the very worst of our aging instincts. It says: We're moral, our enemies are out to exterminate us along with our state, that's all you need to know. No modifications necessary. Stay the course. Concede nothing. Ease no siege. Give no ground. Ever. ...
... The former chairman of the governing board of the World Jewish Congress, Isi Leibler, fired the opening shot this month when he declared it "our obligation to confront the enemy within - renegade Jews - including Israelis who stand at the vanguard of global efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state." ...
‘J-Street’, a counterweight to AIPAC ... the new dovish lobbying organization which describes itself as pro-Israel and pro-peace. Writing ahead of J Street's first national conference, which begins on Sunday in Washington, Leibler argued that although J Street and other American Jewish groups critical of Israel may describe themselves as Zionist, "their prime objective is to pressure the U.S. government to use 'tough love' against Israel - a euphemism for demanding that the Jewish state make further unilateral concessions to neighbors pledged to its annihilation." ....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123065.html
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni sent a letter of support to J Street on the eve of its first national conference.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has asked United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to keep the Goldstone Commission report on Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip from advancing to further votes within the international body.
The damning report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council last week despite opposition from Israel and its allies. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123168.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123047.html
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Brandeis to host Gaza violence forum.
Brandeis University said yesterday that it will host a forum next month with South African Judge Richard Goldstone, the author of a fiercely controversial United Nations fact-finding report that accused Israeli forces as well as Palestinian fighters of committing war crimes in Gaza. ....
The Goldstone-Gold forum on Nov. 5 will be cohosted by the university’s International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life and by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. ...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/hi ... nce_forum/
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Israel confirms settlers ramping up West Bank construction.
The defense establishment confirmed that in recent weeks West Bank settlers have been making a noticeable effort to expedite construction, in an attempt to maximize the "facts on the ground" before the United States and Israel reach an agreement on a settlement freeze. ....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123042.html
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Dovish Jews? Excommunicate them. (Snips)
We don't need them. They'll never see things our way, no matter what. Let them go.
It's a new Israeli approach which borrows from the very worst of our aging instincts. It says: We're moral, our enemies are out to exterminate us along with our state, that's all you need to know. No modifications necessary. Stay the course. Concede nothing. Ease no siege. Give no ground. Ever. ...
... The former chairman of the governing board of the World Jewish Congress, Isi Leibler, fired the opening shot this month when he declared it "our obligation to confront the enemy within - renegade Jews - including Israelis who stand at the vanguard of global efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state." ...
‘J-Street’, a counterweight to AIPAC ... the new dovish lobbying organization which describes itself as pro-Israel and pro-peace. Writing ahead of J Street's first national conference, which begins on Sunday in Washington, Leibler argued that although J Street and other American Jewish groups critical of Israel may describe themselves as Zionist, "their prime objective is to pressure the U.S. government to use 'tough love' against Israel - a euphemism for demanding that the Jewish state make further unilateral concessions to neighbors pledged to its annihilation." ....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123065.html
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni sent a letter of support to J Street on the eve of its first national conference.
http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
Re: UN Report on Gaza War Crimes published
House Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report.
Senior House leaders have introduced a resolution calling on the president and the secretary of state to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration by the United Nations or other international fora of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war.
The resolution (H. Res. 867), sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), calls the report "irredeemably biased" and notes that it "is being exploited by Israel's enemies to excuse the actions of violent militant groups and their state sponsors."
The resolution also reaffirms U.S. support "for Israel's right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors." AIPAC strongly supports this resolution
http://www.aipac.org/For_Hill_Staff/Leg ... rities.asp
H. RES. 867 Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the ‘‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’’ in multilateral fora.
http://www.aipac.org/Publications/Sourc ... Res867.pdf
AIPAC Legislative Priorities.
http://www.aipac.org/For_Hill_Staff/Leg ... rities.asp
UN General Assembly debates Israel war crimes.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10 ... =351020202
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Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals.
Human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries hold lists with names of Israel Defense Forces soldiers allegedly linked to war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. Existing legislation enables arrest warrants to be issued against these officers if they enter those countries. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123814.html
Human Rights Watch applies same standards to Israel, Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123838.html
Goldstone: Holocaust shaped view on war crimes.
... Israel, he added, was one of the first countries to support the formation of permanent court of law for crimes against humanity ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115581.html
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(10-23-09): Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and told him the report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, should be "buried".
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Articl ... 23,00.html
Senior House leaders have introduced a resolution calling on the president and the secretary of state to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration by the United Nations or other international fora of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war.
The resolution (H. Res. 867), sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), calls the report "irredeemably biased" and notes that it "is being exploited by Israel's enemies to excuse the actions of violent militant groups and their state sponsors."
The resolution also reaffirms U.S. support "for Israel's right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors." AIPAC strongly supports this resolution
http://www.aipac.org/For_Hill_Staff/Leg ... rities.asp
H. RES. 867 Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the ‘‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’’ in multilateral fora.
http://www.aipac.org/Publications/Sourc ... Res867.pdf
AIPAC Legislative Priorities.
http://www.aipac.org/For_Hill_Staff/Leg ... rities.asp
UN General Assembly debates Israel war crimes.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10 ... =351020202
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Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals.
Human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries hold lists with names of Israel Defense Forces soldiers allegedly linked to war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. Existing legislation enables arrest warrants to be issued against these officers if they enter those countries. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123814.html
Human Rights Watch applies same standards to Israel, Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123838.html
Goldstone: Holocaust shaped view on war crimes.
... Israel, he added, was one of the first countries to support the formation of permanent court of law for crimes against humanity ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115581.html
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(10-23-09): Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and told him the report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, should be "buried".
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Articl ... 23,00.html
http://podcast.dfwworld.org/2007_09-17_ ... _Lobby.MP3 -- Israel Lobby
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept06/Petras28.htm ------------ 18 Points
http://www.stopaipac.org/perspectives.htm ------------------- Stop AIPAC