Excerpt From Blog Post:At least in the United States, the case of
Israel regarding the Goldstone report is secure after congress voted overwhelmingly to ask the President to oppose any endorsement of the Golstone report in the UN. The house resolution was modified at the last minute to take into account the objections of Judge Goldstone, but the modifications did not weaken it, according to a
JTA report.
The vote is also a defeat for the nascent J Street lobby, which had
criticized the resolution and sought to replace it with a resolution calling on Israel and the Palestinians to launch investigations into the war crimes allegations. The Israeli military already is conducting such an investigation. There is no chance, of course, that the Palestinians will investigate whether or not firing terror rockets...
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