UN Human Rights Council refuses to retract Goldstone report

[sister harb]

UN Human Rights Council refuses to retract Goldstone report

[ 05/04/2011 - 06:27 PM ]
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NEW YORK, (PIC)-- The UN Human Rights Council said in a statement that it would not retract the Goldstone report on the Israeli war on Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009.
An official UNHRC spokesman said in a press release on Monday that UN reports could not be cancelled because of articles in the press.
The statement followed the publication of an article in the Washington Post by Richard Goldstone, who headed a committee probing the war and issued a report on it, in which he said that results of his report would be different if he had access to the information he had known now.
European human rights groups had asked the UNHRC to declare a clear stance toward Goldstone's press statement.
Palestinian officials criticized Goldstone and accused him of bowing to "Zionist pressures".


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[EspirituDeAmaru]

They are also taking his words out of context. At most he his retracting the report he found the Israel was 'Specifically' targeting civilians. Everything else is is still standing behind such as the indiscriminate bombing in cities and the bombing of civilian infrastructure and utilities which are all war crimes.

[sister harb]

And use illegal weapons against civilians like DU weapons and white phosporous.

[EspirituDeAmaru]

Yes, countless violations of human rights. But who can stop them when they have the US on a chain like a guard dog..

[sister harb]

Yes, countless violations of human rights. But who can stop them when they have the US on a chain like a guard dog..

People stop them. People whose believe they can. Isn´t that start of revolution?

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[EspirituDeAmaru]

Well now Netanyahu is "considering" removing the military from the west bank as the UN prepares to vote. And you're right We need an internal uprising and a changing of the guards especially here in the US which I believe is unfortunately many yrs away. You take away the US and Israel loses it main financier. It is already trembling at the prospect of losing its friendly dictators in the middle east due to domestic unrest.

[sister harb]

Uprising or intifada doesn´t start from political leaders. It start from people.

Intifada is arabic word coming basic verb "to shake". Maybe here will come new intifada or maybe it has started already.

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