Susan Rice: I want the Goldstone report to "disappear"....
(Reuters) - "Susan Rice, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, said on Wednesday she wanted a controversial report on Israel's 2008-09 Gaza offensive to "disappear" but did not think it could be amended even though its author now says he may have been wrong. Goldstone wrote in the Washington Post that Israeli investigations of the Gaza conflict indicated civilians had not been intentionally targeted. He said his report, published about nine months after the conflict, would have been different had he known this while writing it.
"I'm not sure it can be amended," Rice told a congressional hearing. "What we want to see is for it to disappear and no longer be a subject of discussion and debate in the Human Rights Council or the General Assembly or beyond." .... Rice told lawmakers the United States repudiated the Goldstone report as "deeply flawed" when it first emerged....
1,400 Palestinians were killed ... "
2 comments:
What a cow! From what I have read about Goldstone's "correction", it seems that there was no direct order from the Israeli government or the most senior military commanders to attack civilians. But there doesn't have to be. As past history confirms, often only hints, suggestions and failure to clarify issues can have the same effect.
On that basis, the Holocaust never really occured because there were, as far as is known, no direct orders from the Führer to extermnate the Jews. Morally, Susan Rice is no better than David Irving.
On the other hand, it is such an outrageous statement it could be intended to make certain that the Goldstone Report does not disappear and remains a subject of discussion and debate in the Human Rights Council or the General Assembly or beyond.
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