Dore Gold on BBC: Israel's Self-Defense Operation in Gaza

Former Ambassador to the United Nations from Israel, Dr. Dore Gold, is interviewed on the BBC concerning the Egyptian peace plan and the intensified Israeli operation in Gaza. Dore Gold maintains that the mission is one of self-defense to stop Hamas from launching rockets on Israeli cities. View more videos by Dore Gold at http://www.jcpa.org


On Thursday, November 5, 2009, Amb. Dore Gold and Judge Richard Goldstone discussed the UN report on Gaza war crimes.
To see Amb. Gold's full presentation please click here:
www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=722&FID=795&PID=0
To read an expanded text of Amb. Gold's presentation please click here:
http://jcpa.org/text/GoldGoldstone-5nov09.pdf
The UN Gaza Report is the most vicious indictment of the State of Israel
bearing the seal of the United Nations since the UN General Assembly adopted
its infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution in 1975, which it subsequently
repealed. A special session of the 47-member UN Human Rights Council called
for establishing the Fact-Finding Mission that prepared the report through the
adoption of Resolution S-9/1 on January 12, 2009. The special session was
convened at the request of Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. Resolution S-9/1 was
notably passed with the support of Russia, China, Arab/Islamic and third world
countries, but not with that of a single Western democracy like Canada and the
member states of the European Union.
The UN Human Rights Council has a history of clear anti-Israel bias. Indeed, of
the eleven special sessions it has convened since being established in 2006, five
have dealt with Israel. Back in November 2006, former UN Security-General Kofi
Annan strongly criticized how the new UN Human Rights Council functioned
right after its creation, noting its anti-Israel emphasis: "Since the beginning of
their work, they have focused almost entirely on Israel, and there are other crisis
situations, like Sudan, where they have not been able to say a word."1 It was the
president of the Human Rights Council who established the UN Fact-Finding
Mission in April 2009 to investigate Israeli military operations in Gaza between
December 27, 2008, and January 18, 2009. He subsequently appointed Justice
Richard Goldstone to head the mission. Its report was published in September.

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