Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy In Focus, November 4, 2009
In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict. The report was authored by the well-respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone and three other noted authorities on international humanitarian law, who had been widely praised for taking leadership in previous investigations of war crimes in Rwanda, Darfur, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. Since this report documented apparent war crimes by a key U.S. ally, however, Congress has taken the unprecedented action of passing a resolution condemning it. Perhaps most ominously, the resolution also endorses Israel’s right to attack Syria and Iran on the grounds that they are “state sponsors of terrorism.”
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November 6, 2009 at 11:17 am |
In the Congress Resolution they quote from what I would assume is the Goldstone Report, but some pieces seem to be from another source.
http://pathofmostresistance.org/congress-resolution-867-where-politics-meets-war-crimes/
Do you know where this extra text came from. I’ve read the whole Goldstone Report and done computer searches through the document and havent found that specific text. Were Congress using a different document?
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November 6, 2009 at 6:14 pm |
Hello Robert,
Unfortunately I have no information about the source for the extra text in the Congress resolution, which you refer to.
Is it possible for you to contact Professor Zunes through FPIF? Perhaps he may be able to shed some light on the matter.
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