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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Seeks to Implement the Goldstone Report
(Weekly Standard) Anne Bayefsky - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has appointed "independent experts" closely connected to an NGO that told the UN Human Rights Council that Israeli legal processes "failed to meet international standards of effectiveness and independence." Pillay's office also selected South African lawyer Ahmed Motala as the in-house contact to serve as the facilitator for the new Goldstone follow-on committee charged with determining "the independence, effectiveness, [and] genuineness" of Israel's response to the Goldstone report on the Gaza war and its "conformity with international standards." Motala doubles as an anti-Israel blogger who had written in the middle of the Gaza war that Israel targeted Palestinian civilians in order to impress voters. The Goldstone follow-on committee in its September 2010 report repeated the claim that Israel engaged in "violence against civilians as part of a deliberate policy" and criticized Israel's legal system for failing to hunt down "officials at the highest levels."