Israel expects the Organization of the United Nations to cancel a report damning of his conduct during the war of Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon, said Sunday.
Yaalon's comments came as the Government of Israel has been said to engage in a diplomatic campaign and public relations in the coming days, seeking to exploit in its favour, the article published by Judge Richard Goldstone in the Washington Post, April 1, on the investigation of the United Nations, that it led to operation Cast lead.
One of the possibilities envisaged in East Jerusalem to try to persuade Goldstone at the request of the United Nations that his article to become an official document of the United Nations. In the article, Goldstone said that subsequent investigations by Israel more of 400 cases in which soldiers had been suspected of intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians had led to the conclusion that no there was no intentional such attacks on non-combatants. "If I had known then what I know now,"wrote the South African jurist", the Goldstone report would have been a different document.
Speaking at a briefing for foreign journalists, Ya'alon said Sunday that Israel expects that the United Nations completely cancel his report on the alleged atrocities committed by the IDF during the operation in Gaza.
"We hope that Goldstone will send a letter to the Secretary-General and clears the charges against Israel in his report distorted," said Ya'alon. "."
For its part, the Minister of defence, Ehud Barak said yesterday that, "Israel must force Goldstone to appear before international forums, particularly at the United Nations."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been even more ambitious in requesting the cancellation of the whole of this report, something which is very likely. Netanyahu assigned National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror put in place a joint team of staff from foreign ministries, the defence and Justice with the task of political and legal recommendations following an article by Goldstone.
If speaking at the meeting of the cabinet of yesterday, Netanyahu said that "we will try to cancel some of the damage done", and that it was his goal "for see report cancelled".
However, sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that, in the best cases, it may be possible for the General Assembly of the United Nations to adopt a new resolution concluding that a resolution earlier, spent a year previously, fully adopted the Goldstone reportis no longer valid.
"In the current international realities, given commands of Israel and the status quo in the peace process it is difficult to imagine that such a scenario will happen again," a Foreign Ministry source said, commenting on the previous proceedings which reversed a resolution of the United Nations - in 1991, with the revocation of the infamous 1975 Assembly General resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism.
During this time, Goldstone in the Washington Post article has been criticized by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
Nabil Abu Beit, spokesperson for the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement indicating that the change in the attitude of Goldstone does not alter the fact that Israel have massacred civilians in the Gaza Strip and killed some 1500 Palestinians. And, in an interview with the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam, Fatah figure Nabil Sha'ath said that Goldstone had likely succumbed to pressure in writing of his play. Similar comments by Hamas leaders.
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