PARIS - two weeks after Judge Richard Goldstone apparently key elements of its UN fact finding mission report on Gaza, the other three run in members of his team a statement, by him you distort facts to the doubts about the report published.
Pakistani human rights lawyer Hina Jilani, London School of economics professor Christine Chinkin, and former Irish peace-keeper Desmond Travers indicated that Goldstone's turnaround was the result of an intense political pressure. The three stressed that they remained firm behind the report war crimes accused Israel during operation cast lead.
The statement from the three was sent to the newspaper the guardian, which published on its website yesterday morning.
The Goldstone report is rejected its conclusions since the object of fierce controversy and the Israeli Government vigorously. The United States has rejected the report, calling it flawed and one-sided.
The three mentioned Goldstone not actually by name directly in their statement, but can be no doubt, their goal.
An op-ed in which on 1 April potential war crimes committed withdraw a central principle of his report to the 2008-2009 Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel Washington Post by targeted civilian Palestinians in the conflict three weeks published Goldstone.
Goldstone said that evidence had since come to light due to a subsequent Israeli military studies in the conflict showed that Israel had aligned not civilians as a matter of policy.
He that he had known then, wrote, would have "the Goldstone report a different document."
In reply, that others wrote three members, that "cast aspersions cast on the results of the report... can not links are unchallenged," say some have "misinterpreted facts in an attempt, the results of military targets and cast doubt on his credibility."
Jilani confirmed to the associated press that she and her colleagues agree, could latest review with Goldstone's even in a telephone interview that they now see not all matter in the public domain, that deserves a rethink on the findings of the report.
Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said that the Israeli position on the Goldstone document remains the same.
"The whole process deep was corrupted by political bias and an extremist domination of the UN Human Rights Commission of non-democratic countries", he said, and added that the Israelis are newspaper articles in training the impact of Goldstone's.
"We are trying what steps to minimize the unjust damage caused by the original report are possible," he said.
The guardian said refutation ""calls to reconsider or even the withdrawal the report as attempts, misrepresentation of their nature and purpose, the rights of victims, Palestinians and Israelis, truth and justice ignore.
The statement addressed also "personal attacks and the exceptional pressure on members of the fact-finding mission, placed" a seemingly thinly veiled reference to pressure and criticism from many in Israel and the Jewish world of Goldstone, South African Jew and that self-described Zionist.
"We pressure from any quarter yielded had to disinfect our conclusions, we would do a grave injustice, the hundreds of innocent civilians killed during the Gaza conflict, injured thousands and the hundreds of thousands whose lives continue to deeply by the conflict and the blockade be affected" the three wrote.
A central part of Goldstone's op-ed was a final report by American judge Mary McGowen Davis, noting that Israel measures taken had to investigate allegations of misconduct during Hamas not had.
The other three members of the Panel wrote that 400 investigations, submitted only three for law enforcement and led only two low penalties.
"The mechanisms used by the Israeli authorities, to investigate the events are not sufficient for the facts and legal responsibility really determine subsequent prove," she wrote.
