Sunday, April 17, 2011

Relying on Misinformation, U.S. Senate Calls on U.N. to Rescind Goldstone Report

by Jeremy R. Hammond, Foreign Policy Journal, April 17, 2011
 
The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Goldstone that was charged with investigating Israel’s full-scale military assault on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, code-named “Operation Cast Lead”.

The report of the fact-finding mission concluded that there was evidence that both Israel and the Palestinian authority in Gaza, Hamas, committed war crimes during the course of the assault.

Israel targets a school with white phosphorous munitions during 'Operation Cast Lead'
Israel targets a school with white phosphorous munitions during ‘Operation Cast Lead’
S.RES.138 states that “Justice Richard Goldstone publicly retracted the central claims of the report he authored in an op-ed in The Washington Post on April 2, 2011″ and “also conceded that the number of civilian casualties was far smaller than the report alleged”.

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1 comment:

Nasir Khan said...

Mr Hammond, thank you for updating us about the American political scene and the U.S. Senate’s role in trying to whitewash and cover-up the war crimes in Gaza of the Zionist State of Israel. Those who know how much power Zionists wield in the United States are fully aware that the Senate operates as a mouthpiece and functionary of Israel and its militaristic agenda. Those who dare to tell how Israel carries out its war, war crimes and false propaganda against the occupied Palestinian people are targeted by the manipulators of the main stream media. This has been the usual practice so far and it seems there will be no end to it in the foreseeable future either.