Ministry of Justice: US Goldstone report decision designed to cover war crimes

[ 18/04/2011 - 12:36 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Ministry of Justice in Gaza has called the US Congress's appeal for the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report, which condemns Israel for war crimes in the 2008-9 aggression on the Gaza Strip ”an American cover to commit more war crimes against the Palestinians”.

”The decision confirms that the United States of America is still pursuing a policy of double standards, and it reveals the falsehood of US claims to democracy and defense of human rights. And it confirms that the values of justice and fairness advocated by the USA are only slogans hiding extremist, racist ideas of antagonism against the Arabs and Muslims,” the Ministry of Justice said in a statement on Sunday.

The statement tags the move a ”desperate attempt” to sabotage the report before it reaches the International Criminal Court, alleging that the the US Congress has infringed on the powers and functions of the UN Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.

Israeli politicians have been pushing the UN to retract the facts found in a probe headed by South African judge Richard Goldstone and later passed on by the UNHRC to the General Assembly to put the report to the International Criminal Court.

Goldstone, who headed the fact-finding mission, gave statements that if he knew when he led the mission what he knew later, the report would have turned out differently; but the other members of the mission stood by the findings of the report.

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