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Goldstone: IDF must punish officers for Gaza war crimes
By Natasha Mozgavaya, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Tags: Goldstone Gaza report 

United Nations investigator Richard Goldstone, whose commission of inquiry found Israel guilty of war crimes in the Gaza Strip, said Monday that Israel Defense Forces soldier and officers must be held accountable for any violations to military standards.

Goldstone's findings outraged Israeli officials across the political and military spectrum, who accused the former South African judge of bias and failure to sufficiently recognize as war crimes Hamas' rocket fire during the winter offensive.

In an exclusive interview with Channel 2 on Monday, Goldstone said IDF soldiers who committed the violations, as well as the commanders who failed to reprimand them, must stand trial for their offenses.
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The former judge also said that Israel should have taken the opportunity for an internal investigation of the IDF's conduct during the offensive.

J Street, the left-wing pro-Israel lobby group in the U.S., made a similar plea for an internal IDF probe on Monday.

"Some of the concerns with the report would have been better addressed had the Israeli government cooperated with the investigation in presenting its own findings," J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami said in a statement.

"We urge the Israeli government to establish an independent state commission of inquiry to investigate the accusations, something Israel has done on several occasions in the past," he added."

J Street went on to "strongly condemn" Hamas for its actions during the war, and said it hoped the upcoming trilateral summit in New York between U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could yield "purposeful and assertive action ... to avert future rounds of violence and bloodshed."

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      1.   Goldstone/ J Street 22:00  |  Louis Fried 21/09/09
      2.   What a farce. Have the Simpsons been heard from yet? 22:02  |  IW 21/09/09
      3.   Message To Goldstone 22:02  |  marat 21/09/09
      4.   Israel already punished the criminals when it attacked Gaza 23:36  |  Jacob 21/09/09
      5.   So Mr. Goldstone, the Hamas gunmen who snatched children 23:43  |  Paul Freedman 21/09/09
      6.   J Street = Red Street 23:54  |  leoblue 21/09/09
      7.   J Street? Who appointed them to speak for anyone? 23:57  |  Cynic 21/09/09
      8.   Expect most Israelis to defend IDF war criminals. 00:01  |  gg 22/09/09
      9.   Mr G`s big mouth 00:04  |  Dwido 22/09/09
      10.   goldstone was just afool ! now hes abloody fool 00:04  |  vhardman 22/09/09
      11.   Goldstone is a Criminal. Puts Israel in grave danger 00:17  |  Elly 22/09/09
      12.   there are 6 staffers at J street according to the NYT. they all 00:27  |  james 22/09/09
      13.   Marat, read the Likud Charter, it`s the same thing... 00:43  |  BBSNews 22/09/09
      14.   Has the UN gone after Nigeria yet???? 00:52  |  B`galil 22/09/09
      15.   Goldstoninejad 01:14  |  eddie 22/09/09
      16.   The cleanest war ever fought 01:27  |  judith 22/09/09
      17.   Goldstone Sells Out In Order to Get the Nobel Peace Prize 01:37  |  massaraksh 22/09/09
      18.   Israel should listen to its Elders 01:40  |  WHG 22/09/09
      19.   US-supported IDF war criminals answer to no one. 01:44  |  josh 22/09/09
      20.   "war criminals"? 01:51  |  Paul Freedman 22/09/09
      21.   Meanwhile Goldstone and HRC abets mass murder in Yemen 02:05  |  Paul Freedman 22/09/09
      22.   above 03:59  |  moishe 22/09/09
      23.   Goldstone 04:04  |  Alan 22/09/09
      24.   I am yet to see a cogent argument against Goldstone 05:07  |  Neil 22/09/09
      25.   We Jews Have Many Goldstones... 05:20  |  Yosemite 22/09/09
      26.   #13 bbsnews - PROVE it ! 07:01  |  CK Tan 22/09/09
      27.   neither the government nor idf leadership can do that... 07:06  |  eric 22/09/09
      28.   Did I miss something? 08:00  |  Richard 22/09/09
      29.   Goldstone represents the best of the Jewish people 08:12  |  Ivar 22/09/09
      30.   It wasn`t a war, Judith! 08:24  |  jayne 22/09/09
      31.   Anti-Semites like you hate Israel no matter what it does 08:51  |  Ivar 22/09/09
      32.   #24 But there are lots of self-contradictory arguments, Neil 09:45  |  Johnboy 22/09/09
      33.   Ivar is consistently opposed to settlements, favouring Intl`l law 09:58  |  Ivar 22/09/09
      34.   to judith 16 : which army were you fighting in Gaza? 10:04  |  just facts 22/09/09
      35.   #5, PAUL FREEDMAN 10:27  |  VIPER 22/09/09
      36.   He is now the worlds judge and executioner? Judas! 12:32  |  Tom Lobo Meyer 22/09/09
      37.   Google "The Economist.com" of this week for Goldstone`s report... 13:23  |  S 22/09/09
      38.   #34 Just Facts 19:40  |  Big Sur 22/09/09
      39.   Marat (#3) 16:59  |  jjvanka 24/09/09
      40.   War crimes 06:41  |  Steve Beikirch 25/09/09
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