Israel enters Gaza (warning: some graphic content)

[Charliecharlie1]

join the peoples front of judea or maybe the judean peoples front.

[Kirsten]

The UN has now Voted to endorse the (Goldstone) Gaza report

The UN Human Rights Council has backed a report into the Israeli offensive in Gaza that accuses both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes.

The report by Richard Goldstone calls for credible investigations by Israel and Hamas, and suggests international war crimes prosecutions if they do not.
Twenty-five countries voted for the resolution, while six were against.
Both Israel and the US opposed official endorsement of the report, saying it would set back Middle East peace hopes.

The Palestinian Authority initially backed deferring a vote, but changed its position after domestic criticism.

Palestinians and human rights groups say more than 1,400 Gazans were killed in the 22-day conflict that ended in January, but Israel puts the figure at 1,166. Thirteen Israelis were killed.

'Culture of impunity'

Before the vote in Geneva, from which 11 countries abstained, the Palestinian representative argued that the matter was simply about respect for the rule of law.


Earlier, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner had insisted that now was the time to end the "culture of impunity" which pervaded.
In contrast, Israel had lobbied intensively against the resolution.

The Israeli government says that the Goldstone report is biased against Israel, and removes the right of nations to defend themselves against terrorists.
The US representative at the Human Rights Council agreed, saying that the resolution - which also criticised Israel for its recent actions in East Jerusalem - only made the prospect of a meaningful peace process more difficult. (By way of just one of many more very recent examples of defiance, despite international calls to stop such actions)

But he also urged both sides to launch independent investigations.
The BBC's Tim Franks in Jerusalem says momentum behind the Goldstone report will only grow. The UN, at its headquarters in New York, may take it up.

Please take two seconds to show your support and encourage our lot to to stick behind the Goldstone reccomendations, and advocate accountability and justice (eventually!)

[supernothing]

Gotta hand it to the Israeli's, they got some chutzpah
Israel calls for change of laws of war