UN Security Council to meet Wednesday on Goldstone report

What Is this world coming to. How could Libya the postcard country of terror, hold any positions at the UN? Has the world gone completely mad? Guess the west expunged their crimes.

Gaza is not occupied, and Gaza has a border with Egypt. So all the claims about "blockade" and "occupation" have nothing to do with the reality. Regarding the suffering of palestinian people - you can't declare a war (so called "resistance") on powerful enemy and to expect, that it will be no response. And you always have a choice to accept the existing of Israel and live peacefully side by side. Other, if you are seeking for a victory in "Media/Public Opinion/Propaganda" war. Then the dead bodies of your children will become a powerful weapon. So, what can I say....the Goldstone Report is one more evidence, that such a war was won by Hamas and its friends.

You asked for reactions, Reza, so here's mine: In my humble opinion, Israel's position is a bit unique. Correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe Israel is the only country that is repeatedly threatened with being wiped off the map, most recently, but by no means only, by Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Such a dubious distinction entitles us to have a nuclear weapon, and I sleep more soundly at night in Israel knowing that other nations might be deterred from attacking us for that reason. Have I answered your question?

Esther is trying to win the position of Israel's Jane Fonda

The answer to your question to Cipora is "YES". The USA has killed civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan in the course of military operations there. They have subjected civilians in those two countries to human rights abuses. I won?t even go into what some of the others who sit around the UN table have done. In they eyes of most of the Middle East and elsewhere, you are JUST as infamous as Israel. Get used to the idea. If Israel is accused of war crimes ? you guys are next. (Closely followed by Britain) There is a greater agenda here. You just don?t get it do you?

Israel and its Zionist supporters can?t say that the UN and the UNSC is useless and wrong when it comes to criticizing and passing resolution about Israel but at the same time cry about why the resolutions passed against Iran is being ignored by Iran. As much as Israel is use to crying and acting like a spoiled child of the US those days are over.

goldstone had accepted a mission from the notoriously corrupt hrc which is made up of states infamous for their human rights abuses. -CJK Isn't America a memebr of this corrupt group? Are we now as infamous as Israel ?

Israel does not oppose people freedom of expression, we do not fire rockets at sleeping civilians, nor blow buses in the streets.- Miron from Seatttle No Myron, you keep one and a half million people in an open air prison for over 40 years. You force them to live at the poverty level. You expel them from their lands, expropriate those lands for redistribution to ethnically pure Israeli citizens and deny them freedom or equality that you feel that only Israelis are entitled to. That the Palestinians fight back is self defense. The IDF is not engaged in self defense, it is engaged in attempting to maintain the Gulag in the conquered territories. ~ If anything our nation stands between those who do all this staff and those in the streets and in the buses- Miron from Seattle. It is obvious that you are one of those Jews that have American citizenship and Israeli nationality. Why aren?t you in your country defending it there rather than hiding in a country of convenience and waging war in cyberspace. Surely, the real thing would be more satisfying for you. They will give you an Uzi, or let you drive a D-9 bulldozer to demolish the homes of Palestinian families and give the land to you with building subsidies.

The UN self-destructed long ago and now it's only a matter of time before it completes rotting from within with Security Council members such as Libya and human rights committees that include terrorists and their supporters. Gimme a break. Who cares what they say or do?

goldstone had accepted a mission from the notoriously corrupt hrc which is made up of states infamous for their human rights abuses. as soon as goldstone accepted this mission, he became the creator of his own humiliation. only a total fool would think that he could colloborate with a corrupt organisation and not become tainted for life. his report itself is an embarrassment to anyone who understands how international law.

The "peace process" cannot be more important than prosecuting the gaza war criminals. Particularly the israeli officers and conscripts that were responsible for 99% of civilian casualties in the conflict.

Im actually very curious to know reactions on this matter. Israel are not a member of the NPT and thus do not have to have nuclear inspections. They have the states veto every resolution made against them, and half the other resolutions the UN sets are ignored by them. Furthermore, they have rejected the ISC report on Gaza. This is all within the "legal" framework of the UN. What would you do if Iran pulls out of the NPT, and has China or Russia to veto any resolutions againsts them, etc in the same was thats happening for Israel today. Would you still say "well, this is perfectly legal?" or would you kick up a fuss? I think you guys are just plain old racist and anyone who dislikes you is immediately called an anti semite.

Mark Lincoln, I am sure Judge Goldstone has seen it all. Yet, the real humiliation doesn't rest with the Judge as he has already proven himself but with the cowardly and spineless leaders shrinking their moral responsibilty and fail-ing to rein in the murderers and vandals in the Israeli establishment today. Dutch

A lot of people think they know it all about that famous report. Very soon they all will know the real facts..just put this link in your favorites map and read it when they come on-line. Then lets see how much of all , that is sad and writting , stay's up-right.... http://goldstonereport.org/

The world is with you today. Dutch

Referring the matter to the General Assembly where there is no veto would mean nothing legally. The GA can pass all the resolutions it likes and make all the referrals it likes. But unless Israel accepts ICC jurisdiction or becomes a party to the Statute (unlikely) or "Palestine" becomes a State (a long way off), only a Chapter VII resolution of the Security Council can trigger the ICC's jurisdiction - see Article 13(b) of the ICC Statute.

I suppose that blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie was all in the name of protecting human right to life. Libya?s official rejoice and celebration at the release of the bomber shows exactly what double standards Israel has to face at the sanctimonious UN. Not one of those sitting in judgement at the UN has the right to cast any stones. War cannot be fought with kid gloves. Israel did what it had to under difficult circumstances and the only issue the UN should be debating is how to prevent Hamas from forcing Israel to do it again.

Nothing will come out of the UNSC because of the automatic veto hammer that the US holds, but it is heartening to see a second Arab state with the backbone to speak out for the Goldstone Report on what happened in Gaza. We saw the first when Syria cancelled Abbas' visit to Damascus after he decided to go soft on Israel at the UN. The Palestinians have their hands full with the Israelis without having to watch their backs from their own.

Israel should lay the cause and consequences of the war squarely on the doorstep of Hamas whose rocketing triggered the defensive response. Israel should acknowledge it was a mistake to use phosphorous and DIME munitions, which the US was probably dumping from it's inventory. Israel should clearly say further rocketting will result in bombing of Hamas facilities. Good that Hamas stopped some rocketeers the other day. That shows they could have and should have all along. All casualties in the Gaza conflict were caused by Hamas' policies, and they should be taken to the Hague.

"The Council of dark forces is going to meet over this report. Israel can tell them to go to Hell." The Council of dark forces??? Oh wow! Lool! That's fearsome! And by doing so, Israel shall boldly cast herself ever deeper into the fraught emptiness of the primordium from whence cometh forth naught but darkness - Hell and its purging flames notwithstanding.

Only since the last few years has Switzerland joined the UN Theatric and Dance Club. True enough, the show must go on. Imagine how each scene will be played out. Israel and the Hamas terrorist movement are the secondary players whilst Libya and the Arab League Nations will play first role main characters. The good Judge Goldstone, who may have had the best of intentions, will watch as his report becomes rewritten in the eyes of the UN and the Muslim World. No mention, of drive by killings, bus bombings or "murder in the mall" will be mentioned. Since the Grad or Qassam missiles are not of heavy payload and the civilian death toll in Israel has not reached the many thousands as was expected by Hamas,( They fired approx.8.000 missiles) the onus will be on Israel alone. Good day from chilly Swiss Alps.

Sources pointed out that the PA representatives strongly rejected the Israeli request to defer the report and insisted on their position, until the Israeli Colonel Eli Avraham presented a video file displaying a dialogue which took place between Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the presence of the former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. According to the same source, Abbas appeared in the video as trying to persuade Barak to continue the war on Gaza, while Barak seemed reluctant to the enthusiastic support from Abbas and Livni to continue the war.

to Zionism showing that someone may be Zionist and human and honest.I have to recognize that i know very fey samples like this.

Noisy Isreali reaction can be considered an tacit admission of guilt.

UN solves nothing, means nothing, IS NOTHING! So, way wasting time with that rotten corpse? Obama is, just like THE OTHERS, the shamefull portrait of the USA support to zions crimes and never gonna let the corpse quoted do something to change this diegracefull status quo. Period!

"PA to Israel: Advance peace talks or we`ll take Goldstone report to UNSC (Haaretz)"

Netanyahu had short window to offer something to Abbas and Obama for their support of not sending the Goldstone report to Security Council. What the world got was a ratcheting up of tension on the Temple Mount. Every Israeli knows that any attempt to change the status of that Holy place will bring Palestinians to its defense. The whole world knows that trick by now. We remember Sharon used it too. The outcome may not be as you hope.

... and is as coherent as someone who has way too much idle time on his hands in his desert kingdom and takes royal advantage of the situation by creating even more smokescreens. That his country could hold two such prestigious positions in the UN only serve to illustrate how ludicrous and grotesque a shape this body has deformed into.

UN can convene and vote... Israel does not oppose people freedom of expression, we do not fire rockets at sleeping civilians, nor blow buses in the streets. If anything our nation stands between those who do all this staff and those in the streets and in the buses. In fact I think Israel would appreciate a spotlight on an unfortunate sequence of events that was set in motion during Christmas week of year 2008. One can not fail appreciate a dignity of Mrs. Rice with which she disappeared from stage, in which she proudly played first fiddle, off of the steps of nation Capitol. "The status quo ante is not tolerable, it has to change"... She obviously lacks the capacity to collect on the investment... she needs a lot of help and persuasion to do the right thing.

Looks like some of the powers that be have a different take on the Israeli version of it's latest genocidal onslaught on Gaza, and when Israeli politicians proclaim they have the most moral army in the world, then I would have thought that Israel would relish the opportunity to defend itself at the International Criminal Court against the allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity!

The Israeli Chorus is about to be sung again. It's nice to see that the Fat Lady is preparing her rendition!

That soft thwopping sound you hear is the stuff hitting the fan.

The Council of dark forces is going to meet over this report. Israel can tell them to go to Hell.

IDF and Israel's leaders must be prosecuted for war crimes. They not only have Palestinian blood in their hands but American blood as well. God Bless America.

Libya of all nations is going to press for a hearing of the Goldstone Report? The ultimate humiliation for a Justice of immense probity.

takes one to know one

Just because it is politically expedient for the USA and Israel to have the report suppressed, it is an issue that needs to be brought up so justice can be done. The International Community should not continue to enable Israel to violate human rights and commit war crimes by ignoring what is going on in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. I am glad somebody is not going to bow to pressure.

- then let just as well iran run the IAEA & sudan be in charge of the ICC.

Israel deserves to have her day in court to prove her innocence. The world will be watching.