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By Richard Goldstone. April 1, 2011 at 8:42 p.m. EDT. 0. We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by...
- Delegitimization Efforts Against Israel
- Exposure to Prosecution in Foreign Courts
- Implications For Hamas and Future Conflicts
- Future Israeli Cooperation with Fact-Finding Missions
- Implications For Subsequent Fact-Finding Bodies
- Conclusion
The Goldstone report has served an important role in what Israel sees as an intensified effort from some quarters to challenge not just its policies but its right to exist and defend itself as a sovereign state. The Goldstone report fed this "delegitimization" campaign by essentially portraying Israel as a pariah State engaged in the intentional an...
Goldstone's retractions may assist in efforts to deter or defend against the prosecution of Israeli officials in foreign courts for alleged war crimes. Various countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, and Norway, have legal provisions that can allow for the criminal prosecution of foreign nationals for serious violations of international law...
Goldstone's article contains a forceful rebuke of the Hamas organization and its terrorist tactics. If the initial report seemed to create a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas, Goldstone's new position pushes in the opposite direction. Not only does Goldstone offer a contrast between Israel's investigating process and Hamas's lack thereof, ...
Israel did not officially cooperate with the Goldstone mission. It argued that its mandate was blatantly one-sided, that certain members had already made seriously prejudicial statements against Israel on record, and that the body that established the mission (the UN Human Rights Council) lacked all credibility given its record of hostility and dis...
Goldstone acknowledges in his article that the purpose of fact-finding missions is "to ensure accountability for improper actions, not to second-guess, with the benefit of hindsight, commanders making difficult battlefield decisions." But, as the Goldstone report arguably shows, fact-finding bodies under pressure to produce results are often unable...
While the ultimate impact of Goldstone's reassessment is difficult to measure, the judge's revised thoughts have certainly undermined the moral and legal weight of the initial Goldstone report. This new position, especially if more widely endorsed, may help adjust expectations of what is reasonable and appropriate for states engaged in asymmetric h...
Apr 4, 2011 · There is a fleet of nongovernmental organizations that has used the Goldstone report for fodder in the campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state. Will these groups recant?
Apr 4, 2011 · That accusation was contained in a report to the United Nations by Richard Goldstone, an eminent South African judge who had been used by the international community previously to investigate...
ON APRIL 1 2011, in the pages of the Washington Post, the international jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the massive eviden...
Apr 4, 2011 · Goldstone, a retired justice of South Africa's Constitutional Court, attributes some of the report's flaws on Israel's refusal to cooperate with his inquiry.
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Apr 9, 2011 · The mission’s report was released later that year by former South African Justice Richard Goldstone, the head of the mission, and three eminent jurists after gathering information through field...
