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Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:57:03 -0500

by Salena Tramel

I have been to the Gaza Strip twice and southern Israel once since the 2008-09 war, where I had the opportunity to listen to accounts from both people about what had happened to them during that time. Israelis showed me thickly walled rooms that act as bomb shelters and explained air raid siren systems in Sderot and Ashqelon. As difficult as their situation was, nothing could have prepared me for the level of destruction I found in Gaza.

House Shames Itself on Goldstone Report

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:46:56 -0500

by Matthew Rothschild

Shame on the House of Representatives, and on the Democratic leadership of the House, for pushing through a resolution once again blindly taking the side of Israeli aggression.

I’m referring to the vote on Tuesday, by a lopsided 344-to-36 margin, to condemn the Goldstone report on Gaza.

Israel and Gaza Deserve Better Than HR 867

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:29:07 -0500

by Brian Baird

Before House Members vote on H.Res. 867, regarding the U.N. Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict, there are a few questions worth asking.

US Words Thwart Middle East Peace

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:25:15 -0500

by Ira Chernus

Two loud wake-up calls came in from the Middle East over the weekend. The next voice you hear will be from the U.S. House of Representatives, which will vote this week (perhaps as soon as Tuesday) on H.R. 867, an AIPAC-sponsored resolution denouncing the Goldstone Report. That's the UN fact-finding mission accusing Israel as well as Hamas of war crimes in Israel's attack on Gaza last December.

Congress Should Not Reject the Goldstone Report

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:44:49 -0500

by Michael Ratner

On Tuesday, November 3, Congress is poised to vote on H.Res.867, which calls on the “President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the `Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict' in multilateral fora.’ ”

Ehud Olmert Could Face War Crimes Arrest if He Visits UK

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:08:21 -0400

by Ian Black

Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working to expand the application of "universal jurisdiction" for offences involving serious human rights abuses committed anywhere in the world.

Report: Palestinians Denied Water

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:36:09 -0400

Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.

In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Goldstone Dares US on Gaza Report

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:47:26 -0400

Richard Goldstone, the jurist who authored a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity during its war on Gaza, has challenged the US to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased. Goldstone told Al Jazeera on Thursday that he had not heard from the administration of Barack Obama, the US president, about the flaws Washington claims to have identified in the report.

The Goldstone Report and the Battle for Legitimacy

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:36:59 -0400

by Richard Falk

Richard Goldstone, former judge of South Africa's Constitutional Court, the first prosecutor at The Hague on behalf of the International Criminal Court for Former Yugoslavia, and anti-apartheid campaigner reports that he was most reluctant to take on the job of chairing the United Nations fact-finding mission charged with investigating allegations of war crimes committed by Israel and Hamas during the three week Gaza war of last winter.

Report: Israeli Troops Fired on Gazans Waving White Flags

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:41:53 -0400

by Dion Nissenbaum

JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers battling Hamas militants last winter in Gaza opened fire on at least seven groups of Palestinian civilians who were carrying white flags, killing 11 people, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.

During the three-week conflict, the U.S.-based human rights group says, Israeli soldiers in separate parts of Gaza killed five women, four children and two men as they used white flags to try to escape the battle zone.