Israel has demanded the cancellation Sunday, April 3 report from South African judge Richard Goldstone accusing the army of "war crimes" during its offensive against the Gaza Strip in the winter of 2008-2009, after the regrets expressed by the judges in an article published by The Washington Post. "We must lay the report in the dustbin of history," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on lawyers and experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study the issue.
"We must now multiply our efforts to ensure that this report be canceled, and I'm going to use," added Army Radio Sunday at the defense minister, Ehud Barak, after asking the Justice Goldstone to "publish its current findings "not just a simple newspaper article. In his article published Saturday, the South African magistrate explained that attacks against Israeli civilians had been classified as willful because no other conclusion was possible at the time, but that new evidence had shown that since there was no policy to target civilians "intentionally".
This conclusion is based on the work of Israeli investigators, who reviewed "more than 400 allegations of misconduct operational," according to a committee established by the Commission on Human Rights the UN monitoring report said Judge Goldstone, noting that Hamas has for its part failed to investigate on its own fire against civilians.
The Israeli offensive aimed at ending rocket attacks from Palestinian territory had killed 1400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 13 Israelis, mostly soldiers. In the report, the Israeli authorities, who refused to cooperate with the UN investigation, had been unleashed against its author, accused of playing into Hamas in Gaza.
After the forum, Israeli President Shimon Peres called the judge "to apologize for accusing Israel of war crimes and ignored the offensive self-defense Cast Lead had been launched in response to thousands rockets fired (from Gaza) against innocent civilians. " All Israeli newspapers devoted their front pages Sunday to "regret" of Judge Goldstone.
"It is finally clear," particularly welcomes the popular daily Yediot Aharonot great, but the editor of Maariv newspaper, the South African judge "does not deserve forgiveness, because he acted so miserable and shameful contrary to the most fundamental standards of morality, justice and common sense.
" Worse, "he put our lives at risk by introducing ourselves as immoral. Apologies are not enough of this man," laments the Jerusalem Post, very strong right. According to Haaretz, the withdrawal of Judge Goldstone is "a great victory for Israel media." "Richard Goldstone had come to represent more than any other efforts the legitimacy of Israel as a civilized obeying the law," the leftist daily. 
"We must now multiply our efforts to ensure that this report be canceled, and I'm going to use," added Army Radio Sunday at the defense minister, Ehud Barak, after asking the Justice Goldstone to "publish its current findings "not just a simple newspaper article. In his article published Saturday, the South African magistrate explained that attacks against Israeli civilians had been classified as willful because no other conclusion was possible at the time, but that new evidence had shown that since there was no policy to target civilians "intentionally".
This conclusion is based on the work of Israeli investigators, who reviewed "more than 400 allegations of misconduct operational," according to a committee established by the Commission on Human Rights the UN monitoring report said Judge Goldstone, noting that Hamas has for its part failed to investigate on its own fire against civilians.
The Israeli offensive aimed at ending rocket attacks from Palestinian territory had killed 1400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 13 Israelis, mostly soldiers. In the report, the Israeli authorities, who refused to cooperate with the UN investigation, had been unleashed against its author, accused of playing into Hamas in Gaza.
After the forum, Israeli President Shimon Peres called the judge "to apologize for accusing Israel of war crimes and ignored the offensive self-defense Cast Lead had been launched in response to thousands rockets fired (from Gaza) against innocent civilians. " All Israeli newspapers devoted their front pages Sunday to "regret" of Judge Goldstone.
"It is finally clear," particularly welcomes the popular daily Yediot Aharonot great, but the editor of Maariv newspaper, the South African judge "does not deserve forgiveness, because he acted so miserable and shameful contrary to the most fundamental standards of morality, justice and common sense.
" Worse, "he put our lives at risk by introducing ourselves as immoral. Apologies are not enough of this man," laments the Jerusalem Post, very strong right. According to Haaretz, the withdrawal of Judge Goldstone is "a great victory for Israel media." "Richard Goldstone had come to represent more than any other efforts the legitimacy of Israel as a civilized obeying the law," the leftist daily.
- Campaign to annul Goldstone report (03/04/2011)
- Israel Wants Gaza Conflict Report Withdrawn (04/04/2011)
- Goldstone 'regrets' Gaza war report (03/04/2011)
- Olmert on Goldstone: Too little, too late - Ynetnews (03/04/2011)
- What made Goldstone change his mind about the Gaza war report? - Ha'aretz (03/04/2011)
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