Posted on 10/02/2009 6:57:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (AFP) – Members of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday postponed a decision on a damning report on Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip that raised evidence of war crimes by both sides and possible crimes against humanity.
The 47 member Council decided to delay until March 2010 a vote on the report by an independent international fact-finding mission headed by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
Goldstone last month recommended that the UN Security Council should ask the International Criminal Court to examine possible charges, unless progress was made in investigations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories within six months.
Friday's move followed a request by Pakistan, on behalf of Arab, African, Non Aligned and Muslim states that supported the report, to defer endorsement, according to documents filed with the Council.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned on Thursday that Human Rights Council would have dealt "a fatal blow" to the stalled Middle East peace process if it passed the report on to the Security Council.
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in other words un cancelled hatchet job on israel
There is only one way this multi-decade long issue will ever end. Only one.
Lemme guess. Israel accused of butchering thousands, while the Palis handed out candy on the street...
This committee is about as useful as most committees, and mainly serves as a way for the educated from insignificant countries to be somewhere else rather than home;somewhere where the food is cheap, varied and plentiful, the porn is also cheap, varied and interesting, and they are able to collect big bucks while being accountable to no one.
that raised evidence of war crimes by both sides and possible crimes against humanityIOW, the delay is until they figure out how to remove all references to Hamas' actual crimes against humanity and embellish the phony accusations against Israel.
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