On 1 October 2009, I posted that the Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the United States, had withdrawn its support for a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza that suggested Israel had committed war crimes in its three-week war against Gaza. The report wouldn’t get much traction if the Palestinians didn’t support it. The Palestinian government withdrew support after the US pressured them to drop support. And the US likely pressued the Palestinians to drop support because the US is such a unilateral supporter of Israel that the US would turn its back on war crimes committed by Israel.
On 8 October 2009, I posted that the UN Security Council had declined to discuss the Goldstone report in an emergency session.
Well, today, 9 October 2009, I can post that the Palestinian representative to the United Nations in Geneva is again pushing to discuss the report, reversing the Palestinian Authority’s decision from 1 October to allow the report to sink into obscurity. Apparently, the Palestinian president, Abbas, realized that he represented the Palestinians rather than being a mere puppet of American interests. And given that the Security Council wouldn’t take it up, a lot of outraged Palestinians probably let their government know that they weren’t too happy about it.
Maybe if the report gets back on the table, then Israel will be held accountable for its deeds.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/2009108222821260976.html
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