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Israel's war against Goldstone

The National
Posted on Wednesday January 27, 2010

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said: “We face three major strategic challenges: The Iranian nuclear programme, rockets aimed at our civilians and Goldstone.” He was referring a report by the highly regarded South African judge, Richard Goldstone, the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, now generally known as the Goldstone report.

In an apparent effort to direct attention away from the content of the Goldstone report which studied the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces and Hamas in the war on Gaza a year ago, the Israeli government has described the report as anti-Semitic.

The Goldstone report is “simply a type of anti-Semitism,” the Israeli Information Minister Yuli Edelstein told Ynet. Israel’s political leadership claim there is an anti-Semitic trend which blames the victims of Palestinian rockets for the war crimes documented in the United Nations report.

The website Mondoweiss highlighted one section of the report which connected the Israeli strategy employed in Gaza to the operations of the Israel Defence Forces in the war in Lebanon in 2006.

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