By Jonathan Cook, Information Clearing House, Oct 6, 2009
Israel celebrated at the weekend its success at the United Nations in forcing the Palestinians to defer demands that the International Criminal Court investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israel during its winter assault on the Gaza Strip.
The about-turn, following vigorous lobbying from Israel and the United States, appears to have buried the damning report of Judge Richard Goldstone into the fighting, which killed some 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians.
Tags: Israel, war crimes, Palestinian Authority, invasion of Gaza, Richard Goldstone report, Omar Barghouti, Wataniya
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