Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Goldstone's continuing value


·         The 4 member goldstone committee was setup by UNHRC to investigate into operation cast lead(22 day war between israel and palestine in 2008-09)
·         It lead to death of 1400 palestinians and 3 israelis
·         Israel didn’t cooperate with the committee
·         Hence committee was forced to draw its own conclusions
THE REPORT
·         It blames both israel and palestine
Israel is blamed for its deliberate targeting of civilians and using them as human shields while palestine is blamed for its indiscriminate rocket attacks in civilians areas of israel

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