BREAKING NEWS: UN Human Rights Chief Endorses 'GOLDSTONE' Recommendations

Geneva - UN Human Rights Council

• Today, at its two-day Special Session on the ‘Goldstone Report', UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay strongly endorsed a 5-page resolution supporting the anti-Israelrecommendations.

• The United Kingdom became the first Westerncountry with voting rights on the UN Human Rights Council to state unequivocally in a strong speech that it would not endorse the ‘Goldstone Report’or the related draft resolution.

New York - UN Security Council

Mark Weitzman, SWC Chief UN Representative, delivered live updates via Twitter from the gallery of the UNSecurity Council in New York, where he reported that the Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister said, "The[Goldstone] Report is another damning indictment of Israel ... Israel must be stopped from perpetratingcrimes."

Washington DC - USCongress

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), House Foreign Affairs Committeeranking minority member, voiced her strong opposition to the [Goldstone] Report on the floor of Congress where, as part of her remarks, she stated, “And as theleadership of the Simon Wiesenthal Center stated in a recent letter to Ambassador Susan Rice, consideration of this report 'is a prescription for disaster, not only forIsrael, but for the United States and every country that fights violent extremism.'”

Worldwide:

It’s not too late to join the over 10,000 activists who have signed the petition urging the U.S. to publicly veto anyUnited Nations action – your activism is making a difference.

HuffingtonPost: “Here we go again as the United Nation pursues its unique "verdict first--trial afterwards, treatment of the Stateof Israel."
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Jerusalem Post: The Simon WiesenthalCenter called on Goldstone on Wednesday to dissociate himself from the report based on his admission in an interviewwith the American Jewish paper The Forward that that it was not a full investigation and "if this was a court of law, nothing would be proven."
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Ynet: World according toGoldstone: UN report could bury every democracy confronted by terror...
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