[AP] Frank Jordans - Former international prosecutor Richard Goldstone said Wednesday he will go ahead with his UN investigation into possible war crimes in Gaza even though Israel has withheld its approval. Israel objected to the mission ordered by the UN Human Rights Council because the original instructions were only to check what Israelis did to Palestinians. But Goldstone only accepted the assignment if he could see what happened on both sides. "There is no change in our position," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Wednesday in Jerusalem. "We think that the mandate is intrinsically flawed and defective and therefore this commission will never be able to do a proper job, whatever good intentions its head may have."
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