Goldstone Commission Members Weigh In
The members of the Goldstone commission — all who have displayed extreme anti-Israel bias (see, for example “Chinkin’s Gaza Letter Reveals Bias, But Also Skewed Facts“, “Goldstone Commissioner Suggests Israelis Conditioned to Kill Children” and “The Judges: Israel is Already Guilty“) — are doing ‘damage control’ to preserve their work, now that Richard Goldstone has retracted the central thesis of their UN investigation and report.
Pakistani human rights lawyer Hina Jilani, professor of international law at the London School of Economics Christine Chinkin and former Irish peacekeeper Desmond Travers jointly released a statement stating that they now find it necessary” to dispel any impression that subsequent developments have rendered any part of the mission’s report unsubstantiated.” They write:
Calls to reconsider or even retract the report, as well as attempts at misrepresenting its nature and purpose, disregard the rights of victims, Palestinians and Israeli, to truth and justice.
On the contrary. The retraction of a false libel addresses the rights of the victims. But, contrary to what they say, Israeli victims have never been of concern to the commission members.
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