Thread: Head of U.N. Panel Regrets Saying Israel Purposely Killed Gazans

JERUSALEM — The head of a United Nations panel that investigated Israel’s invasion of Gaza two years ago has retracted the central and most explosive assertion of the report — that Israel purposely killed Palestinian civilians there.

Mr. Goldstone’s article fell like a bomb in Israel, where many people considered the 2009 publication of the Goldstone Report as one of the most harmful events in recent years. It was viewed as offering spurious justification for damaging accusations that Israelis considered to be part of a campaign to delegitimize the state and label it as a war criminal.

“We face three major strategic challenges,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last year, “the Iranian nuclear program, rockets aimed at our citizens and Goldstone.”

On Saturday night, Mr. Netanyahu called for the United Nations to retract the Goldstone Report entirely. “Everything we said has proven to be true,” he said. “Israel did not intentionally harm civilians. Its institutions and investigative bodies are worthy, while Hamas intentionally fired upon innocent civilians and did not examine anything.”

“The fact that Goldstone backtracked,” Mr. Netanyahu added, “must lead to the shelving of this report once and for all.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/wo...e.html?_r=1&hp

i wonder what they have on him.

“Israel did not intentionally harm civilians. Its institutions and investigative bodies are worthy, while Hamas intentionally fired upon innocent civilians and did not examine anything.”

thats all you need to read. theres no back story or conspiracy here.

Originally Posted by raycarey

i wonder what they have on him.

my thoughts exactly, a night visit by a mossad agent could be an interesting way to put pressure

you've been reading too many john le carre novels.