04/09/11

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"...[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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