US Vows to Stand By Israel Over Gaza War Crimes
Peres Condemns UN for 'Spreading Lies'
In a meeting today with America’s Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, Israeli President Shimon Peres condemned the UN for “spreading lies” in allowing the Goldstone Report’s consideration.
The Goldstone Report details war crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas during the January invasion of the Gaza Strip. Rice vowed that the United States would stand by Israel “as a loyal friend” and fight against the report in the UN Security Council.
The UN Human Rights Council formally endorsed the report last week, with the US one of the few nations to vote in opposition to it. It has been referred to the Security Council, but the US is expected to use its veto power to prevent it from going any farther.
The report’s contents are largely the same as those from human rights groups that investigated the conflict, in which over 1,000 Palestinian civilians were slain. Israel has insisted that the author, South African Judge Richard Goldstone, is an “anti-semite” for penning the report, and the government has insisted its backers in the UN are also anti-semites which seeks to see the Jews slaughtered.
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US Vows to Stand By Israel Over Gaza War Crimes « Dr Nasir Khan
October 21st, 2009 at 11:00 am
[...] Gaza War Crimes By sudhan Peres Condemns UN for ‘Spreading Lies’ by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, October 21, [...]
Phonk
October 21st, 2009 at 8:41 pm
what does USA gets when it protect war criminal? USA is tarnishing its own so called values.
by doing so history is unforgiving. the whole world is watching and USA doesn't give a toss how the rest of the look at them, a blatant fdefiance to the rules of law.
ChrisDowd
October 21st, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Yes- just "stand by" Israel and damn the facts. You know what we need? Another commission to study why they hate us.
MvGuy
October 21st, 2009 at 10:28 pm
["WAR CRIMINALS OVER THERE"] Yeah, us war-criminals gotta to stick together.. It's those G-damn doo gooderz wha wanna end all the fun like rape an torture…….the things what make our lifes more fun..
They wanna sterilize the fight an actually have rules ……..
U.S. to ‘Continue Standing By Israel’ War Crimes ‘as Loyal Friend’ « Little Alex in Wonderland
October 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
[...] the report last week, with the U.S. one of the few nations to vote in opposition to it,” Jason Ditz, news editor at AntiWar.com, adds. “It has been referred to the Security Council [U.N.S.C.], but the U.S. is expected to use [...]
Peaceful_Idiot
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 am
Only if we can ignore the results. You know, pride.
DrFix
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:22 am
Israel claims Goldstone is an "anti-semite". Ooooooooh! The typical and tired old story thats trotted out over and over again whenever the truth comes to light. How pathetic.
Amir Goy
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 am
This should dispell, if for some reason they still exist… any lingering doubts about who really calls the shots (pun intended) in Amerika.
guest
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
To hell with Susan Rice. If you compare her stated policy in the UN towards both Israel and Sudan, you will see blatant hypocrisy when it comes to the issue of willingness to pursue so-called war crimes charges against the two foreign governments. It's all about politics, both hers personally and the "special relationship".
zouppie
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
America's political class is the best in the world.When they are bought, they stay bought. No action is ever so reprehensible that the U.S. would ever distance itself from its masters.
paulBass
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
WHAT! why does America support a militaristic expansionist regime armed with nuclear weapons?
well because we are a militaristic expansionist regime armed with nuclear weapons. and we enjoy having a strategic ally right next to all the world oil and the only sea passage between Europe and the east.
so that we may do what we want and always have the Israeli army at our back
do you think we would have lost in Vietnam if we had a nuclear armed powerful military ally in laos
james
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
So the whore of the mid east has bought the us goverment, what else is new. What gets me is that the us goverment can be bought for next to nothing.
Valerianus
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Goldstone, who is Jewish, is receiving the usual treatment handed out to any Jew who fails to toe the line with Jewish in-group norms. At least he tried to make an impartial examination.
Valerianus
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
That's because the members of the U.S. government are suborned individually long before they get anywhere near a position of influence. The amount of SLPC/ADL/AIPAC/Israeli propaganda that goes into prepping candidates for offices and various bureaucrats and law enforcement officials is enormous, to the point that it can truly be described as a system. So it's no surprise that Washington does Israel favors for next to nothing.
Oldtimer
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:20 am
AMEN!!!
newthougt
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 am
i hope the chinese & indians are learning from this .For the strong the week are to blame, so arm up