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Last update - 20:06 16/10/2009
Richard Goldstone slams UN for failing to censure Hamas
By Haaretz Service

South African jurist Richard Goldstone, who headed a UN investigation commission into the conduct of Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas during Israel's offensive in Gaza last winter, criticized on Friday the United Nations Human Rights Council's decision to endorse the report his commission had compiled.

Goldstone, whose report accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes, lamented the wording of the resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, because unlike the report, he said, the draft does not include any condemnation of Hamas, Israel Radio reported.

Goldstone told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps before the vote that the wording of the resolution was unfortunate because it included only censure of Israel. He voiced hope that the Human Rights Council would alter the wording of the draft.
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In a special session Friday, 25 of the Human Rights Council's members voted in favor of the resolution that chastised Israel for failing to cooperate with the UN mission led Goldstone. Another 6 voted against and 11 abstained.

The resolution agreed in Geneva simply calls for the UN General Assembly to consider the Goldstone report and for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report back to the Human Rights Council on Israel's adherence to it.

The report calls for the UN Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court if the Israelis or Palestinians fail to investigate the alleged abuses themselves.
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  1.   Goldstone is 100 % correct on this one !!! 20:31  |  Swiss (Dino) 16/10/09
  2.   Shove it, Goldstone 20:40  |  A Nice Fellow 16/10/09
  3.   Complete farce 20:59  |  David 16/10/09
  4.   It`s right there in his Report 21:00  |  Mark Lincoln 16/10/09
  5.   He has only himself to blame 21:10  |  judith 16/10/2009
  6.   Sometimes anti-Israel anti-Jewish sentiment is a blessing 21:13  |  Tim R 16/10/09
  7.   Now he sees the light... 21:17  |  ben 16/10/09
  8.   In the eyes of Hamas 21:21  |  akiva 16/10/09
  9.   goldstone danced with the UN devil 21:27  |  ross 16/10/09
  10.   Oh Goldstone what did you expect 21:31  |  Gil 16/10/09
  11.   You were the cog in the machine Mr Goldstone 21:38  |  bob 16/10/09
  12.   Goldstone report 21:39  |  Jay 16/10/09
  13.   Penny Wise, Pound Foolish 21:40  |  Mark of Lewiston 16/10/09
  14.   No parity 21:42  |  KMS 16/10/09
  15.   Goldstone for Academy Awards 21:51  |  Ron 16/10/09
  16.   G-stone apparently never dealt with Arabs 21:52  |  S-stone 16/10/09
  17.   unfair 22:01  |  thomas masri 16/10/09
  18.   "A vile terrorist organization" L.O.L. 03:40  |  Ciro 18/10/09
  19.   shame 10:04  |  paul 19/10/09
  20.   Goldstone to be commended 01:22  |  Rafeh Hulays 20/10/09
  21.   Why did Egypt block gaza? 21:22  |  Tamara 02/11/09
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