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How Should Israel Respond to the Goldstone Report on Gaza?
[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs-Hebrew] Irit Kahn - Judge Goldstone's choice to announce the report in New York, just prior to the UN General Assembly, rather than in Geneva, home of the UN Human Rights Council which requested the report, added to the political nature of the report. The report looks at Hamas with a forgiving attitude, presenting a picture of two similar parties: one a terror group and one the State of Israel. The report denies that the Gaza operation was one of self-defense for Israel. The mandate establishing the Goldstone commission had already declared that Israel had committed war crimes. I have no doubt that if Israel had cooperated with the commission, the result would have been the same. The writer, former director of the International Affairs Department of the Israel Ministry of Justice, is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center.