Summary
The justice who chaired the U.N. fact-finding mission on the 2008-2009 Gaza war, whose report — the Goldstone report — the Epilogue of Palestine Inside Out quotes as concluding that the attack was directed in part at the people of Gaza as a whole (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.372-373).
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“While the Israeli Government has sought to portray its operations as essentially a response to rocket attacks in the exercise of its right to self defense, the Mission considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a different target: the people of Gaza as a whole.” (quoted PDF p.372)
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With Richard Falk, he points to the Gaza attacks as potentially crimes against humanity as well as war crimes (PDF p.374).
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Falk’s lawfare post names him “the distinguished jurist Richard Goldstone, who headed the UN mission responsible for the report”, whose findings on Operation Cast Lead drove Israel’s top leaders to “venomous fury” (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.30).
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The Gaza headnote records that Goldstone “actually backed away from the most incriminating finding implicating Israel in the deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians, a conclusion that the other three members of the UN inquiry commission refused to withdraw” (PDF p.72).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Goldstone report, Gaza, Dahiyeh Doctrine, Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Lawfare