"...[the] deliberate actions of the Israeli forces and the declared policies of the Government of Israel...cumulatively indicate the intention to inflict collective punishment on the people of the Gaza Strip in violation of international humanitarian law." ~ Richard Goldstone [The Goldstone Report] [Source]

JERUSALEM — Israel Saturday called on the U.N. to cancel a report which said it had committed war crimes during its December 2008-January 2009 Gaza offensive, after its author said he may have been wrong.

South African jurist Richard Goldstone chaired a fact finding mission which in a 2009 report to the U.N. Human Rights Council said both Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza, were guilty of war crimes in the conflict. Goldstone wrote in a Washington Post column published on Friday: "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."

About 1,400 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, and 13 Israelis were killed in the devastating war that was launched with Israel's declared aim of ending cross-border rocket fire from Palestinian militants. Israel refused to cooperate with Goldstone's mission and condemned his report as distorted and biased.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a written statement issued Saturday called on the U.N. to cancel the Goldstone report. [Lying through his teeth, Netanyahu said] "everything we said has been proven true, Israel did not intentionally harm civilians, its investigating bodies are worthy and the fact that Goldstone has retracted should bring the report to be shelved once and for all."

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Stephen Lendman: Revisiting Israel's Terror War on Gaza
Celine Hagbard: Goldstone Flip-flops After Talk With Racist Zionists
AWIP: Goldstone backtracks: Regrets Saying Israel Intentionally Killed Gazans
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13 [people] killed in retaliatory aggressive Israeli strikes in Gaza. Israeli aircraft and tanks fired at targets in the Palestinian enclave, and "militants" launched mortar rounds and rockets at Israel, causing no casualties. Seventeen Palestinians, both "militants" and civilians, have been killed and dozens wounded since Thursday’s [false flag] bus attack, in the worse flare-up of Israeli violence since the offensive in 2009 against the militant Islamic group Hamas the people of Gaza.

PressTV: Gazan killed in Israeli tank shelling

New Wikileaks cables expose classified documents that include evidence of alleged cooperation between Persian Gulf state and Israeli intelligence agency. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange released additional classified documents about Israel and the Middle East: Britain's Guardian newspaper stated that the sensitive documents expose, among other things, Israeli criticism of the man who is the de facto head of state in Egypt, Hussein Tantawi Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The diplomatic cables were transferred to Yedioth Ahronoth and some have been published on Friday.

One of the documents leaked to the Wikileaks site and published in the Guardian, addresses alleged relations between Israel's security services and Bahrain. In a cable describing a meeting between the US ambassador to the emirate and King Hamad in 2005, the US diplomat noted that the king admitted "that Bahrain already has contacts with Israel at the intelligence/security level (ie with Mossad) and indicated that Bahrain will be willing to move forward in other areas."

Analysts See Partition as Inevitable. The NATO war in Libya is continuing apace with no end in sight. Despite this, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated today that there “is no military solution” in the nation. Rasmussen insisted that a “political solution” was needed instead, which is noteworthy primarily because NATO appears to be making absolutely no effort toward such a solution, but is rather content to keep dropping bombs. The comments are virtually identical to those made last week, and analysts are saying that they once again point to a civil war which has rapidly devolved into a stalemate. It seems, many believe, that partition is virtually inevitable, and what remains to be seen is where the border will be drawn. And while a stalemate might well mean a return to relative calm on both sides of the country, lingering hostility is likely to be a justification for the continuation of the NATO no-fly zone and, by extension, the war, for months or even years to come.

Reykjavik District Court has today passed sentence on the first case by the special prosecutor into the banking crash. Baldur Gudlaugsson has been sentenced to two years in prison for insider trading. Baldue Gudlaugsson, former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Finance, committed serious crimes, the judge said;adding that his sentence is particularly harsh because he abused his position as a civil servant.

Military police dispersed hundreds of protesters remaining in Cairo's Tahrir Square from of the biggest demonstrations since Hosni Mubarak was ousted using tasers and batons late on Friday night, a witness said. Hundreds of thousands of people rallied during the day to pile pressure on the interim military rulers to meet demands including the prosecution of Mubarak. But after the curfew, set from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m., military police and state security officers surrounded the square, fired shots in the air, used tasers and batons and arrested protesters to break up the crowd, a witness told Reuters by telephone.

"They are moving in on us with very aggressive force, I can see people running in every direction," Mohamed Fahmy, 29, said, while the sound of screaming and gun shots, which he said were fired by the police into the air, sounded in the background.

PressTV: 2 dead, 18 injured in Cairo's protest
PressTV: Over one million protesters in Cairo's Liberation square demand military rulers lift the blockade on Gaza

People power finally takes Govt. of India by surprise. Agrees on a stronger anti-corruption bill. As anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's hunger strike for a comprehensive Lokpal Bill entered the third day, but the Centre appears to have failed to assess the gravity of the situation in time. A senior Congress minister said instead of finance minister Pranab Mukherjee or human resource development minister Kapil Sibbal, the Centre should have roped in rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh or power minister Sushilkumar Shinde, both former chief ministers of Maharashtra, to liaise with Hazare.