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Amb. Dore Gold and Judge Richard Goldstone
discussed the UN Report on war crimes in Gaza 
Brandeis University, Thurs., Nov. 5 at 5 p.m., EST 
Click here to view the visual presentation that Amb. Gold
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     "South African jurist Richard Goldstone and Dore Gold, Israel's former
ambassador to the UN, were at Brandeis to discuss Goldstone's highly
controversial UN report on Israel's Gaza operation last winter. Gold Our Fellows' Books
brought facts and figures, maps and photographs, and audio and video in
English, Arabic, and Hebrew. The encounter marked the first time that
Goldstone publicly debated the report's merits with a leading Israeli figure.
It would not surprise me to learn that he is in no hurry for a second.
    Gold played video of Israelis under Hamas rocket attack, and noted
that such attacks had increased 500 percent after Israel's withdrawal from
the Gaza Strip. He displayed aerial photographs of Hamas military
installations located amid schools and mosques. He described Israel's
extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties, and showed Palestinian
TV broadcasts confirming those efforts. He presented images of weapons
caches inside Palestinian mosques and homes. It was a powerful
presentation - so powerful, in fact, that Goldstone regretted not having
seen it earlier. "The sort of information shown to us by Ambassador Gold," La Shoah
he said, "should have been shown to us during the [UN] investigation." - Freddy Eytan-
    What was most striking of all was Goldstone's inability to give a clear
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defend itself against relentless terrorist attacks? "What would you do if Show Publications
your population was facing repeated attacks for eight years?" asked Gold, By Year
after describing the thousands of rockets launched by Hamas at Israeli By Author
communities. The judge, astonishingly, had no answer. He responded that
that was a decision for the Israelis to make. Where the UN is involved, Search Articles
the guilt of the Jewish state is always taken for granted. The Goldstone
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Background Information on the Goldstone Report
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Blocking the Truth of the Gaza War: How the Goldstone

Commission Understated the Hamas Threat to Palestinian
Civilians- Jonathan D. Halevi
Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes - Jonathan D. Halevi
Palestinian "Policemen" Killed in Gaza Operation Were Trained
Terrorists - Jonathan D. Halevi
International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. (res.)
Richard Kemp
Did Israel Use "Disproportionate Force" in Gaza? - Dore Gold
Accountability of Hamas Under International Humanitarian Law -
Sigall Horovitz
Video: Dore Gold Discusses the Flaws and Fallacies of the
Goldstone Report

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