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Goldstone II
by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del conflict and called for the inquiry’s
Zion para Israel - Daughter of creation. Then, on October 16, 2009,
Zion for Israel) when the Council held a special
session to endorse the Goldstone
Submitted at 7/15/2010 5:45:00 AM report, the ICJ was again one of the
Goldstone II The UN ‘Human Rights few NGO speakers. This time it
Council’ has appointed a second specifically called the Israeli
commission whose job is to look into investigations into the Gaza conflict
the implementation of the Goldstone “ineffective as they lack safeguards
Report from last fall. I guess you will of independence and impartiality…”
all be shocked to hear that the On June 24, 2010, soon after the
outcome of this commission’s report appointment of the three senior ICJ
has been predetermined just like the members to the Goldstone follow-up
original Goldstone Commission was. committee, the ICJ issued a public
This second rendition of Goldstone statement coming to the defense of
was crafted by a March 2010 Goldstone, his apartheid-era past, and
resolution of the Human Rights his report.
Council. That resolution first declares Read the whole thing.
that Israel – and only Israel – What could go wrong? I suppose if
committed “unlawful acts” in the rockets…result[ing] in the loss of (ICJ). the ICJ weren’t doing it, Human
Gaza war. And then it establishes a four civilian lives and some injuries.” All three of the new committee Rights Watch, Amnesty and the New
committee of experts to monitor and The fact that the mandate of the members are affiliated with the ICJ. Israel Fund would do it anyway.
assess all judicial and other Goldstone inquiry was tainted from Committee members Christian posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:45
proceedings taken by Israel to the outset, and that its successor is cut Tomuschat and Param Cumaraswamy PM
respond to the General Assembly’s from the same cloth, did not deter were members of the ICJ’s executive Hija del Zion para Israel Support
endorsement of the Goldstone report three more lawyers from taking this committee during Rishmawi’s term at Israel
and its long list of supposed Israeli latest UN job. They are German the ICJ. Cumaraswamy was ICJ’s • Holocaust – 1/59"Holocaust"
crimes. Christian Tomuschat (chair), vice president until 2006. Currently (1978) mini-series. Directed by
The mandate also asks the new Malaysian Param Cumaraswamy, and both are honorary members. Mary Marvin Chomsky. With James
committee to assess the proceedings American Mary Davis. As it turns Davis is currently on the board of the Woods, Meryl Streep and Michael
of the enigmatic “Palestinian side.” In out, the takers and their UN American Association for the ICJ. Moriarty. Holocaust follows the
the many resolutions on the Gaza war associates have more in common than The ICJ has been closely connected tragedy and triumph of the Weiss ...
from the General Assembly and the first meets the eye. with the Human Rights Council’s • Koch Keeps Up Campaign For
Human Rights Council no mention is The members of the new committee campaign to vilify Israel over the Israel Last night on Shmuley
ever made of “Hamas,” which keeps were appointed on June 14 by the UN Gaza war, and in particular, the Boteach's radio show on 770 WABC,
with the UN fiction that the war high commissioner for human rights, Goldstone report and its follow-up. Democratic Mayor Ed Koch
entailed wanton Israeli aggression in South African Navi Pillay. One of In January 2009 the Council held a continued to criticize Obama for his
a vacuum. Instead of eight years of Pillay’s two legal advisers, and chief special session to denounce Israeli treatment of his Israel. We could not
rocket attacks on Israel’s civilian of her office’s “rule of law” branch, is actions and adopt the resolution that find a transcript of the interview
population and an elected government Palestinian Mona Rishmawi, former gave rise to the Goldstone inquiry. and...
that openly advocates genocide, the executive director of the Palestinian Of the thousands of UN-accredited • I am a Jew – Music Video...
resolution creating the Goldstone NGO al-Haq and until 2000 a NGOs, the ICJ was one of two-dozen
inquiry describes the problem with prominent director of a unit of the that spoke. It claimed Israel had Original post source
the Palestinian side as “crude International Commission of Jurists violated international law during the