Posted by Wymark on 10/15/2009, 7:54 pm
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Here's what the U.N.'s Goldstone Report, which was an investigation into Israels attack on Occupied Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009, lead by the respected former ICC prosecutor and academic Richard Goldstone, concluded:
' . . . the Mission concludes that what occurred in just over three weeks at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability . . . the systematic and deliberate nature of the activities described in this report leave the Mission in no doubt that responsibility lies in the first place with those who designed, planned, ordered and oversaw the operations'.
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf - p.408
No ambiguity there. It was a state-terrorist campaign deliberately targeted at a walled-in civilian population who had no hope of fleeing. 1400 Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians, and about 6000 injured.
The report was being debated today at the U.N. Human Rights Council, and according to The Jersualem Post:
'The United Kingdom became the first Western country with voting rights on the UN Human Rights Council to clearly state that it would not endorse the Goldstone Report or the draft resolution based on that report, which had been placed before the council's two-day special session that opened Thursday in Geneva.
"We can not endorse the report and can not vote for the resolution as tabled," the UK told the council on Thursday. It added that it did not consider it necessary to hold a special session on the report'.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255547727737&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The decision has been criticised by Amnesty International, who fully support the findings of the Goldstone Commission, and it basically amounts to New Labour supporting Israels 'right' to massacre and terrorize Palestinians with impunity.
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