Goldstone Report

Goldstone’s ‘apartheid’ denial sparks strife

by News Sources 11.02.2011

After his famous article earlier this year on Gaza, Judge Richard Goldstone has written a new op-ed, this time seeking to defend Israel against charges of apartheid. There are numerous problems with Goldstone’s piece, but I want to highlight two important errors. First, Goldstone – like others who attack the applicability of the term “apartheid” [...]

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Goldstone’s latest act of atonement at the feet of the Zionists

by Paul Woodward 11.01.2011

“If this bloc of millions of ­Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.” Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak, February, 2010. In his latest act of atonement, Judge Richard Goldstone claims that those who assert Israel practices a form of apartheid, make this accusation in order to “retard rather than advance peace negotiations.” The [...]

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Goldstone has paved the path for a second Gaza war

by News Sources 04.08.2011

Gideon Levy writes: All at once the last doubts have disappeared and the question marks have become exclamation points. Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu Al-Aish wrote a short book in which he invented the killing of his three daughters. The 29 dead from the Al-Simoni family are now vacationing in the Caribbean. The white phosphorus was only [...]

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Where now for the Goldstone report?

by News Sources 04.06.2011

John Dugard writes: In an op-ed in the Washington Post Richard Goldstone, former South African Constitutional Court judge and Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, expresses misgivings about the central finding of the UN Human Rights Council Fact Finding Mission Report on the Gaza Conflict of 2008-9 (named after its chairman, [...]

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Forget Goldstone — remember Gaza

by Paul Woodward 04.04.2011

Here’s a circle that should never have been closed. The Goldstone Report, once credited with having provided a hefty shove as Israel veered towards pariah status, is now being held up by Israelis as having unintentionally demonstrated why, when the need arises, Israel will be able to launch Cast Lead Two and once again chant: [...]

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Interview with Judge Richard Goldstone

by News Sources 03.11.2011
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Palestine Papers: PA stonewalled the Goldstone vote

by News Sources 01.26.2011

The Palestine Papers reveal: On October 2, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council was widely expected to pass a resolution supporting the Goldstone Report, the UN’s probe of war crimes committed during Israel’s war in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The Council instead agreed to delay a vote on the report until March [...]

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Did the Palestinian Authority kill the Goldstone report?

by News Sources 10.30.2010

Jared Malsin writes: Israeli soldiers shot a mentally ill Palestinian man in the leg when he ventured near the Erez crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a 65-year-old man was shot in the neck in the same area. A week earlier the soldiers shot a 17-year-old, who entered the 300 to [...]

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The attacks on Goldstone

by Paul Woodward 05.15.2010

In Haaretz, Hagai El-Ad writes: What will they come up with next? The campaign to discredit Judge Richard Goldstone, his fact-finding commission and the report that now bears his name seems to reach new heights every week. The latest installment in this high-drama farce has been the revelations about Goldstone’s record during apartheid-era South Africa, [...]

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Israel’s dark past arming apartheid South Africa

by Paul Woodward 05.11.2010

A new attack on Judge Richard Goldstone is the latest effort in a campaign to direct attention away from his allegations that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. In this instance though, questions about Goldstone’s record as a judge in apartheid South Africa are overshadowed by the Jewish state’s own role in helping support the [...]

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Israel still might not dodge a human rights threat from Britain

by Paul Woodward 05.07.2010

“Sighs of relief will have been heard in Israel’s London embassy on Friday morning as it emerged that Britain’s Liberal Democrat party had failed to capitalize on a surge in pre-election opinion polls,” Haaretz reported. Cleggmania might have proven to be short-lived — or at least not translated well in a parliamentary system that disregards [...]

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Jewish lobbying fails to stop EU support for Goldstone report

by Paul Woodward 03.10.2010

On Tuesday, a headline for Haaretz declared: Jewish lobbying sways EU against support of Goldstone Gaza report The article said: Members of the European Parliament have backtracked from their plan to pass a resolution demanding implementation of the Goldstone report, in response to pressure from European Jewish leaders, Haaretz has learned. After leaders of all [...]

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Tzipi Livni won’t be visiting the UK any time soon

by Paul Woodward 03.04.2010

To hear it from the Israeli press you’d think that the British government can now make changes to the law simply by having the prime minister write an op-ed. Last December an arrest warrant was issued for former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, when she was expected to arrive in Britain. According to Haaretz she [...]

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At what point will the West dump Israel?

by Paul Woodward 03.01.2010

For those of us who view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being an issue of injustice, there’s plenty of reason to believe no resolution is in sight simply because justice is one of the weakest among the principles governing world affairs. To this extent, Israeli leaders can feel confident in their sense of impunity. But there [...]

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U.S.: Easing Gaza siege would help counter Goldstone

by Paul Woodward 02.09.2010

Think of Gaza as a hospital patient whose lips have been stitched closed. Israeli doctors point to an IV drip and say: “Look. We are taking great care to make sure the patient stays alive.” American consultants suggest that it would really be better to remove a couple of stitches so that a tube can [...]

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The apartheid will end when Israelis have to face its cost

by Paul Woodward 02.08.2010

At The National, Tony Karon wrote: The former US president Jimmy Carter set off a firestorm in 2006 when he said that Israel would have to choose between maintaining an apartheid occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinians. That Mr Carter brokered Israel’s most important peace treaty [...]

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Avi Shlaim – Blair: Gaza’s great betrayer

by Paul Woodward 02.03.2010

From The Guardian: The savage attack Israel ­unleashed against Gaza on 27 December 2008 was both immoral and unjustified. Immoral in the use of force against civilians for political purposes. Unjustified because Israel had a political alternative to the use of force. The home-made Qassam rockets fired by Hamas militants from Gaza on Israeli towns [...]

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Israeli officers get ‘slap on wrist’ for white phosphorus use in Gaza

by Paul Woodward 02.02.2010

From The Times: Israel has reprimanded two senior army officers who were responsible for firing white phosphorus artillery shells at a UN compound during last year’s offensive in Gaza. In the first admission of any wrongdoing the Israeli military found that Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg and Colonel Ilan Malka were guilty “of exceeding their authority in [...]

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International Holocaust Day becomes Attack Goldstone Day

by Paul Woodward 01.26.2010

Israel: Goldstone Report anti-Semitic By Roni Sofer, Ynet, January 25, 2010 The world will mark International Holocaust Day on Wednesday. Monday will see President Shimon Peres fly to Berlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave for a visit to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They will be joined by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in [...]

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IDF to finally engage Goldstone, day late dollar short

by Paul Woodward 01.24.2010

IDF to finally engage Goldstone, day late dollar short By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, January, 2010 Ethan Bronner writes a N.Y. Times report on a new propaganda offensive by the IDF against the Goldstone Report. It seems Israel has finally decided to engage with the document’s claims that Israel may have committed war crimes during [...]

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Israel’s effort to silence political protest

by Paul Woodward 01.20.2010

Israel deports US journalist By Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, January 20, 2010 Israeli authorities today deported an American journalist who was working as an editor for a Palestinian news agency. Jared Malsin, who is Jewish and in his late 20s, was detained at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport eight days ago as he returned from [...]

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Israel threatened a “seond Gaza” in the West Bank

by Paul Woodward 01.17.2010

Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or face “second Gaza” By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, January 17, 2010 The request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations Human Rights Council last year to postpone the vote on the Goldstone report followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of the Shin Bet [...]

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Turkish human rights group: Arrest Barak when he arrives here

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Turkish human rights group: Arrest Barak when he arrives here By Daniel Edelson, Ynet, January 14, 2010 espite the intensifying crisis between Israel and Turkey, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is insisting to follow through with his scheduled plans to visit Turkey next week. However, on Thursday it became clear that an arrest warrant may await [...]

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Gaza’s civilians still unable to rebuild one year after ‘Operation Cast Lead’

by Paul Woodward 12.22.2009

Gaza’s civilians still unable to rebuild one year after ‘Operation Cast Lead’ Amnesty International, December 22, 2009 The international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to back their words with effective action to secure the ending of the Israeli blockade which is preventing reconstruction and recovery, say a group of 16 leading [...]

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