Goldstone, Gaza, & the U.N.

The United Nations General Assembly's November 4th debate and vote on Justice Richard Goldstone's report on war crimes in Gaza follows weeks of turmoil in Israel and Palestine about how to respond to it. Palestinian national economy minister Bassim Khoury, who resigned in quiet protest when the Palestinian Authority initially agreed not to press the U.N. Human Rights Council for immediate action on the report, recently told a Century Foundation gathering in New York that Authority leaders had not "understood the ramifications" of deferring action, and that Hamas-which "committed war crimes too"-could not resist the temptation to "go on the offensive" over this issue, heedless of the consequences of war crimes investigations of Hamas itself.

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