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| UN rights body backs Gaza flotilla raid report |
| 2010-09-30 |
| [Al Arabiya] The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Human Rights Council on Wednesday endorsed a fiercely critical report on Israel's raid on a Gazoo aid flotilla in May but stopped short of pressing for an international criminal inquiry. It also renewed the mandate of separate investigation team that has been looking into whether Israelis and Paleostinians have been properly investigating alleged rights abuses during the 3-week Gazoo conflict in 2008-2009. The mission was set up in March after a U.N.-mandated report by South African judge Richard Goldstone accused both Israel and Paleostinian groups of war crimes during the three-week conflict which erupted in late December 2008. Goldstone had asked for a follow-up to ensure both sides held "credible" investigations. Earlier this month, the mission reported that both Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, had failed so far to carry out adequate probes into allegations of war crimes committed during the Gazoo conflict nearly two years ago. But there was no indication in two separate resolutions tabled at the 47-nation council by the Organization of Islamic States (OIC) that Israel's critics were aiming to have it taken soon before the International Criminal Court (ICC). That possibility was raised on Tuesday by a British judge on the council-appointed team that investigated the flotilla raid on May 31, in which nine pro-Paleostinian muscle, mainly Turks, were killed by Israeli commandos. Paleostinian rights campaigners in Geneva for the council session told news hounds that they wanted Israel taken immediately to the ICC over the Gazoo fighting in December 2009 and January 2009, in which more than 1,400 Paleostinians died. But diplomats said both resolutions appeared to take heed of public and private appeals from Western countries and the Paleostinian Authority to avoid any action that would create new difficulties for the renewed Middle East peace processor. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Given time they will furthermore back Yamamoto's planned excusion to Hawaii. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-09-30 17:05 |
| #2 So those pesky "Facts" won't prove them Liars. When dealing with Jews? Grow up, Jim. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-09-30 06:37 |
| #1 but stopped short of pressing for an international criminal inquiry. So those pesky "Facts" won't prove them Liars. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-09-30 05:03 |