elderofziyon.blogspot.com - 10/21/2009
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Ma'an quotes to an Al-Arabiya TV interview with Hamas politburo chief Moussa Abu Marzouq. In the interview, Marzouq points out exactly why Hamas is so ecstatic over the Goldstone report, even though people think that the report condemns Hamas for shooting rockets into Israel. Marzouq points out ...
online.wsj.com - 10/19/2009
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online.wsj.com —
JOHN BOLTON The U.N.'s Human Rights Council (HRC)
voted overwhelmingly on Friday to endorse the recommendations of...
the lopsidedly anti-Israel Goldstone Report. The report, named for former South African judge Richard Goldstone, who chaired the ...
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John Bolton: Israel, the U.S. and the Goldstone Report
haaretz.com - 10/16/2009
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haaretz.com —
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 ...
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Richard Goldstone slams UN for failing to censure Hamas
rferl.org - 10/21/2009
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rferl.org —
The UN Human Rights Council has endorsed Judge
Richard Goldstone's controversial report accusing both Israel and Hamas...
of war crimes during the 2008-09 conflict in the Gaza Strip. The council has asked the UN Security Council to refer the report's ...
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Who Is Richard Goldstone?
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Hamas: Goldstone doesn't single us out (they're right too)
Israel Matzav —
... Hamas fighters and possibly de facto government police had injured prisoners, mainly Fatah affiliates, who were in their care during the war, Abu Marzouq said a committee was being formed to investigate. I'm sure that 'committee' will do at least as good a job as Goldstone did. I'm sure they'll ignore this since it happened after the cease fire went into effect. But maybe Human Rights Watch can show them this report. But you know what? Hamas is right. The report does not single them out . Here's more : Why aren’t Hamas leaders worried by the report? ...
Did You Know that the Goldstone Report Does Not Condemn Hamas Even Once?
Solomonia —
... In the entire text? In fact, it goes out of its way to exculpate Hamas, and make any of its accusations generic. Elder of Ziyon has gone through it in detail: Goldstone Report does not condemn Hamas once. Not only does it not do so, but Goldstone himself has been running about lying about the fact. Hamas's Moussa Abu Marzouq is quite happy about this fact. ...
Gaza report’s author is really full of himself
Yourish.com —
... Except as Hamas observed, the Goldstone commission did not explicitly mention that Hamas was guilty of war crimes. Besides, even if the report did mention Hamas, the mention of war crimes committed against Israel was negligible. The balance suggested in the news story was in no way reflected in the report. ...
Richard Goldstone: Utterly clueless
Yourish.com —
... Point number one: The report never actually condemns Hamas. Not once. It does, however, keep mentioning “Palestinian armed groups” as responsible for some of the crimes (for example, the rocket launching). There is a reason, Dore Gold said, why Hamas accepted the report. Because it didn’t implicate them at all. ...
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