The UN Security Council turned down the idea of having an emergency meeting to look at the Goldstone report about war crimes by Israel and Hamas militants in December 2008.
Palestinian leader Abbas, who went along with the idea of burying the report, has made the US happy in keeping it’s ally Israel safe from war crime charges, but has lost the support of his own Palestinian people back home.
The US pressured Abbas to drop the report. Abbas went along. But if the US doesn’t give Abbas something to show his people he got in exchange for dropping that report, then Abbas will be out of office very soon now. If Abbas ends up dropping the report and has nothing to show for it by the next election, the US will have guaranteed Abbas loses the palestinian leadership and will push many Palestinians towards embracing Hamas even more than they are now.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/200910854824709578.html
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