Bill Moyers: Richard Goldstone's (5) 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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[Rx4pabulum]

Congress is out to bury the Goldstone report. Tell your representative to vote NO on H. Resolution 867.

[steute2011]

@100tamir Your comment is a wishful attempt to discredit the entire report based on his statement. What he said is and was a forgone conclusion, as Israel refused to participate in the initial investigation. So of course the report would have been different. What you failed to mention, is that he stood behind his initial report with the exception of Israel targeting civilians as a matter of policy. You also fail to mention that the other 3 experts involved stand firmly behind the original report

[100tamir]

To understand the report and to see which side is right - all you need to do kmow is just to read what mr. goldston said on 04/2011 : We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document. MR GOLDSTON - SHAME ON YOU.