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Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC’s Defense of Israeli Attack

Note how busted whoremonger Spitzer claims flotilla was controlled by Hamas. Is Turkey controlled by Hamas?

UN body okays Goldstone Gaza report accusing Israel of war crimes

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South African jurist Richard Goldstone, who headed a United Nations investigation into the conduct of Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas during Israel's offensive in Gaza last winter, criticized on Friday the United Nations Human Rights Council's decision to endorse the report his commission had compiled. The council on Friday endorsed the report, which accused both Israel and the militant group Hamas of committing war crimes during the December-January conflict in Gaza. Goldstone told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps before the vote that the wording of the resolution was unfortunate because it included only censure of Israel. He voiced hope that the Human Rights Council would alter the wording of the draft. In a special session Friday, 25 of the Human Rights Council's members voted in favor of the resolution that chastised Israel for failing to cooperate with the UN mission led by Goldstone. Another six voted against and 11 abstained. The resolution agreed to in Geneva ca...