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"Let me ... reiterate my support for the recommendations of the Fact Finding Mission, including its call for urgent action to counter impunity."
-UNHRC Chief Pillay with Judge Goldstone |
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Geneva - UN Human Rights Council
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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." |
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| Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) with SWC Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper at Congressional Hearings. |
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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.'”
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In the News:
HuffingtonPost: “Here we go again as the United Nation pursues its unique "verdict first--trial afterwards, treatment of the Stateof Israel."
read full SWC Blog 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."
read full article Ynet: World according toGoldstone: UN report could bury every democracy confronted by terror...
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