Report: US continues to 'stonewall' Goldstone Report

Dissident Voice- Stephen Lendman - On September 15, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) Goldstone Commission issued its findings on Cast Lead, Israel’s war of aggression against Gaza, inflicting enormous loss of life, thousands of injuries, massive human suffering, and vast destruction, despite no provocation or threat to Israeli security.

The Commission concluded that “there is evidence indicating serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed by Israel during the Gaza conflict, and that Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity.”

Notably the Commission said:

While the Israeli Government has sought to portray its operations as essentially a response to rocket attacks in the exercise of its right of self defence, the Mission considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a different target: the people of Gaza as a whole.

...The US State Department also responded, spokesman Ian Kelly citing “overly sweeping conclusions of fact and law with respect to Israel,” while failing to challenge its findings.

Shortly before the HRC voted to endorse Goldstone’s report, the PA bowed to US and Israeli pressure to defer voting until March 2010. At the time, calls for Abbas’ resignation were heard, to no avail. Read more