Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Exclusive: Schabas’ own colleague, human rights icon Aryeh Neier, calls for him to quit UN Gaza prob [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)There were numerous conclusions in the report, shira. Israel's intents in some of its targeting choices were just one of several dozen conclusions (I don't have the document on hand, can't remember the exact number - over forty). And that conclusion was reached entirely by the evidence at hand. it wasn't made-up. It wasn't malicious. It was what the evidence led to. What's more, when Israel released its own findings, the vast bulk of the Goldstone report was corroborated by that.
As Goldstone stated, had israel provided its own evidence to the report, that conclusion would have been different.
One would think israel would be eager to engage such investigations in the future, in order to prevent such problems from arising again...
But instead, they're again refusing and insisting on engaging in a Cossack-style Jew-hunt against William Schabas. Just as they did against Goldstone.
You want to talk about cover-ups? Might want to look at the knesset, instead of HRW.