Bill Moyers: Richard Goldstone's (1) UN Report on Israel / Gaza

Bill Moyers talks with Justice Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

There could not have been a more thankless job in the world this year than investigating allegations of war crimes between Israelis and Palestinians. You're about to meet the man who shouldered that task after others had turned it down. And sure enough, he is at the center now of a raging controversy.

Judge Richard Goldstone was born and raised in South Africa, where he came to prominence investigating the vicious behavior of white security forces during apartheid.

In 1994, the UN named him to lead its investigation of war crimes in what was once Yugoslavia, including ethnic cleansing, the deadliest violence in Europe since the Second World War. That same year he was asked to prosecute genocide in Rwanda, where almost a million people were slaughtered. Goldstone went on to uncover Nazi war criminals hiding in Argentina, and to lead an independent inquiry into war crimes in Kosovo.

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[EnhancementSmoker]

Im thankful for Bill Moyers

[sneakycobra]

israel itself the greatest crime oin history..........hats of to honorable Richard Goldstone who exposed these begotten whores of satan......... using weapons of mass destruction against innocent civillians ... what a cheap shit army who crumbled against men.... but attacks civillians ......

[pengo2008]

Some commentators have endeavored to prove by parsing his words that Goldstone did not actually recant. Such a rhetorical strategy will not wash. Goldstone is a distinguished jurist. He knows how to use precise language. If he did not want to sever his connection with the Report he could simply have said “I am not recanting my original report by which I still stand.” He must have known exactly how his words would be spun and it is this fallout

[40223950]

@steute2011

the satanic occupiers ("Pale-satans") armed these school, hospital and mosque. that's the truth. and there was no white phosphoros in the war really, just in the occupiers' lies. and Gabels-ton the nazi can go to hell (and he will, after he'll arrive to his last day)- his crimes are worse

[steute2011]

@40223950 Truth hurts huh? So I guess Goldstone is the one who bomb the schools, hospitals and Mosques? I guess he is also the one that used white phosphorus in civilian areas?

[40223950]

@40223950 i've open mind, but not about people who want to murder me and rob my land (Pale-Satan-s), or a liar nazi who blames us for uncommited crimes (Gold-Satan, the son of a bitch)

[dxbblackwolf]

@40223950 No. They aren't able to utilize their resources in any other way because Israel has cut them off from the rest of the world. The fact that they even require financial aid is enough to prove that Israel didn't leave them with much to begin with. Well, since you are not even ready to admit that Israel is even a little mistaken and I'm pretty stubborn about my opinion as well, this is not going to end anytime soon. Bye, try to have an open mind.

[40223950]

@EnhancementSmoker i'll be thankful for SEALs if they'll do to the nazi terrorist Goldstone as they did to Bin-Laden

[40223950]

@dxbblackwolf

well, we maybe kill innocents. but 1 in 10 years maybe because we try to kill directly some Bin-Ladens who we have here. they hide themselves inside the citizerns. but they kill 10 israeli innocents in year.

poor situation? what do they want? Israel moved from the big Arabian cities in Judah Shomron and Gaza in 1994-1997. who's the responsible there? PLO. why blame us? almost every financial aid the arabians occupiers get they waste it on missles and bombs vs. Israel

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@sneakycobra

yea, of course they're killed. as termits that want to eat your house can be killed by K600. and i apologize the temites about the insult. we need to defend ourself from the arabi murderers PLO, Hamas and etc.