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Goldstone Report

Selling Out in Congress

Adam Shapiro | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza, Goldstone Report, Palestine, Israel, Tom Perriello, Congress, Richard Goldstone Gaza, Palestinians, Perriello, Politics News
Adam Shapiro

My old friend Tom Perriello, I am afraid, has become like so many of his colleagues, a mere tool of a hard-right AIPAC agenda that has no business dictating American policy, as it did with the Goldstone resolution.

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UN's Goldstone Sent 13-Year-Old Boy to Prison for Protesting Apartheid

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Apartheid, Nelson Mandela, Goldstone Report, Human Rights, Gaza, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, New York Times, Goldstone, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Prior to his work for the international court, Goldstone cut his judicial teeth on the bench of South Africa's Supreme Court under the apartheid regime.

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No Safe Haven for Suspected War Criminals

Daniel Machover | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, War Crimes, Un Goldstone Report, Goldstone Gaza, Goldstone Report, Foreign Affairs, Richard Goldstone, World News
Daniel Machover

Personal attacks on Justice Richard Goldstone and his colleagues are a distraction from a proper analysis of their report's contents and from the clear need to build upon and act on its recommendations.

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Goldstone Report "Irredeemably Biased," Says U.S. House

Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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The US House of Representatives has rejected as "irredeemably biased" the findings of a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes d...

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On Israel, Congress Tolerates Abuse

Fred Abrahams | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Goldstone Gaza, Richard Goldstone, Hamas, War Crimes, Un Goldstone Report, Goldstone Report, Goldstone Resolution, Richard Goldstone Gaza, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Resolution 867, Politics News
Fred Abrahams

When Washington turns a blind eye on violations by Israel, it gives abusive governments and their supporters a way to deflect criticisms of their unlawful conduct.

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Obama Gets Good Grades at the United Nations

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Unesco, Goldstone Report, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Obama One Year Later, Unicef, UN Security Council, World News
Stephen Schlesinger

Obama has compiled an extraordinary list of accomplishments already at the UN. Let's begin with his decision to appoint a new ambassador, Susan Rice, who actually believes in the UN.

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Standing Against the 'Wrong is Right' Goldstone Resolution

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Goldstone Gaza, Goldstone Resolution, Dennis Kucinich, Goldstone Report, Foreign Affairs, Richard Goldstone, Hamas, Israel, Richard Goldstone Gaza, World News
Rep. Dennis Kucinich

If this Congress votes today to condemn a report it has not read, concerning events it has totally ignored, about violations of law of which it is unaware, it will have brought shame to this great institution.

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Gaza, Iranian Rockets and J Street

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Peace Process, Goldstone Report, World News
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea

Even the most apolitical tourist in Israel cannot escape noticing the contrast between a visible show of opulence there and an inner bitterness and doubt about the possibility of peace.

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Read Goldstone's Report on Gaza

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, South Africa, Congress, Israel Gaza Operation, Goldstone Report, United Nations, Richard Goldstone, World News
Rep. Keith Ellison

We stand for the values of democracy, truth and justice. There is no reason for Congress, Israel or any other party to fear an honest judge like Richard Goldstone -- his report should be studied, not dismissed.

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Dems in House to Pass Resolution Defending Gaza War

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza, Israel, Aipac, J Street, Bibi Netanyahu, Gaza War, Goldstone Report, Politics News
MJ Rosenberg

Some of the very House members who denounce the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and God knows how many other US military actions (often rightly) go mute when it comes to Israel.

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Dispatch from J Street

Antony Loewenstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J Street, Goldstone Report, Israel Lobby, James Jones, Richard Goldstone, General James Jones, Israel, Gaza, Politics News
Antony Loewenstein

J Street must decide what it wants to be -- a wide tent that allows all Jewish opinions on Israel or an orthodoxy that pushes only conventional platitudes -- but the Palestinians don't have time to wait.

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Justice Goldstone and the Jews

Tony Judt | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Foreign Affairs, Richard Goldstone, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, World News
Tony Judt

We Jews should be very proud of Richard Goldstone. It would be hard to fictionalize a more convincing biography for an engaged and ethically uncompromising jurist.

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It Will Take More Than a Wall To Silence Us

Jamal Juma' | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Israel, Israel Wall, World News
Jamal Juma'

If President Obama is to live up to his Nobel, then he should insist that trapping Palestine's emerging Gandhis and Mandelas behind walls is incompatible with a peaceful and just future.

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Netanyahu on Goldstone: "Looking Into" Doing the Right Thing, for the Wrong Reasons

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Acri, Israel, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza, Goldstone Report, World News
Hagai El-Ad

We certainly do not want Israel to take its moral cues from Hamas, nor use that organization's abuses as excuses for inaction.

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J Street Conference To Open Amid Controversy

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Goldstone Report, Jewish Lobby, Lobbyists, Lobbying, Salam Al-Marayati, Obama, Palestinians, Aipac, J Street, J Street Conference, Middle East, Israel, Michael Oren, James L. Jones, Us, Un, Standwithus, American Task Force on Palestine, Politics News

J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...

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Benjamin Netanyahu On Iranian Threat: "The Issue Is Not The Security Of Israel But Of The World"

Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Holocaust, Gaza, Palestinian, Fatah, Iran, Obama, Human Rights Abuses, Hamas, Nukes, War Crimes, West Bank, Jerusalem, Nuclear Weapons, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Geneva, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas Fatah, Goldstone Report, Red Cross, Israel, Un, Gilad Shalit, War Crime, World News

NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...

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Goldstone Criticizes UN Council on Human Rights

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Goldstone Report, Security Councel, United Nations, Richard Goldstone, Israel, Hamas, Jewish, UN Human Rights, World News
Alan Dershowitz

The author of the infamous Goldstone Report is now trying to distance himself from the way in which the report is being used to single out Israel for condemnation.

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Goldstone's Report -- Israel's Missed Opportunity

Hadas Ziv | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Human Rights, Goldstone Report, Palestine, Israel, Phr-Israel, United Nations, World News
Hadas Ziv

We are so intoxicated with victimhood, manipulated by our leaders, that we let it ruin our lives, blind our eyes to the evils that we commit, to the possibilities for peace that we miss.

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Israel Pushes To Change International Laws Of War After Damning Gaza Report

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Gaza, Israel, Gaza War, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Un Gaza, Un Gaza Report, Foreign Affairs, Israel Law of War, Israel Laws of War, Benjamin Netanyahu, Home News

Israel's prime minister has instructed his government to draw up plans for a "world wide campaign" to lobby for changes in the international laws of w...

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Former Israeli PM Olmert Shouted Down at University of Chicago (Video)

Ali Abunimah | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Chicago, Ehud Olmert, Palestine, Israel Lebanon War, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Chicago News
Ali Abunimah

Recording and photography were officially banned at Olmert's request, but we had a camera anyway as protester after protester rose to make a statement before police forced them to leave.

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Richard Goldstone: Why I Investigated Israel's Conduct In Gaza

RealClearWorld | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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Five weeks after the release of the Report of the Fact Finding Mission on Gaza, there has been no attempt by any of its critics to come to grips with ...

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Goldstone: Discussed, but Not Read

James Zogby | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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James Zogby

Now that the report has been voted out of the Human Rights Council and forwarded to the Security Council, the gamesmanship continues. That it is back center stage is a good thing.

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UN Human Wrongs Council

David Harris | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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David Harris

Today's vote in the mistakenly-named UN Human Rights Council provided a window into those 25 member states who could not distinguish between a democratic state and a terrorist entity.

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Goldstone Attacks UN Resolution On His Gaza War Report

Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Goldstone, Gaza, Goldstone Un, Richard Goldstone, Un Report, Foreign Affairs, Gaza War, Israel, Un Gaza Report, Goldstone Report, World News

Richard Goldstone, the South African who headed a United Nations investigation into the Gaza war, slammed the UN Human Rights Council's endorsement of...

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Goldstone, Israel's Frankenstein Monster

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, Bradley Burston, Un, Idf, Ehud Barak, World News
Bradley Burston

I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.

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