The big Israel-Palestine news of the weekis Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday (4/3/11). The short version you pick up from the media is that Goldstone has "retracted"his UN-sponsored report on war crimes during Israel's Operation Cast Lead war in Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009. The "retraction" language is fairly common–as in the New York Times headline (4/4/11),"Israel Grapples With Retraction on UN Report." But is there any realretraction? Goldstone, a retired South African judge, chaired a four-person fact-finding commissioninvestigating crimes committed by both sides. As he explains in his Post column, the Israelis refused [...]
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