youtube.com - 10/22/2009
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The United States has criticised the Goldstone report into Israel's war on Gaza, calling it one-sided. In an interview with Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi, Jus...
harpers.org - 10/30/2009
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harpers.org —
Desmond Travers was one of the four members
of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the...
Gaza Conflict, which produced the controversial Goldstone Report. Travers is a retired Colonel of the Army of the Irish Defence Forces. His last appointment ...
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KEN SILVERSTEIN—Six Questions for Desmond Travers on the ...
boston.com - 10/22/2009
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boston.com —
The report covers the three weeks of the
Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip in December and...
January, which Israel said was necessary to halt fighters from the Hamas faction in Gaza from firing rockets into civilian areas. More than 1,000 ...
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Brandeis to host Gaza violence forum
news.bbc.co.uk - 10/16/2009
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Goldstone dares US on Gaza report
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Source: Al Jazeera English Richard Goldstone, the jurist who authored a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity during its war on Gaza, has challenged the US to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased. Goldstone told Al Jazeera on Thursday that he had not heard from the administration of Barack Obama, the US president, about the flaws Washington claims to have identified in the report. "I have yet to hear from the Obama administration what the flaws in the report that they have identified are. I would be happy to respond to them, if and when I know what they are," Goldstone said. "The Obama administration joined our ...
Goldstone hammers at US and Israel
Israel Matzav —
Goldstone hammers at US and Israel In an interview with al-Jazeera, Richard Goldstone hammered away at the United States and Israel over his report on Operation Cast Lead. Let's go to the videotape. Goldstone continues to pretend that no one has made any substantive criticisms of his report. I have seen dozens - maybe even hundreds. He accuses the United States of not providing 'specifics' about the report's flaws. A 575-page report in which more than 500 pages is devoted solely to castigating Israel by definition has no balance. Goldstone also opposes Prime Minister Netanyahu's proposal to update the Geneva Convention to make it more responsive to countries fighting ...
Goldstone challenges US over Gaza war crimes report
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United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict report (pdf)
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