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Unanimous US Senate calls on UN to rescind Goldstone report

The United States Senate has unanimously passed a resolution calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone Report.

The resolution called on the UN Human Rights Council "to reflect the author's repudiation of the Goldstone report's central findings, rescind the report and reconsider further Council actions with respect to the report's findings."

The resolution urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to "do all in his power to redress the damage to Israel's reputation" and to "reform" the HRC "so that it no longer unfairly, disproportionately and falsely criticizes Israel on a regular basis."

We love the US Senate and we appreciate this resolution, but the chances that they will move the UN in general and the 'Human Rights Council' in particular by just passing this resolution are somewhere between slim and none. Is the US willing to do more? Is it willing, for example, to call on the Obama administration to withdraw from the 'Human Rights Council'? Is it willing to withhold US funding for the UN until the UN buries the Goldstone Report? Is it willing to withdraw from the UN? Even those measures may not help to deep six the Goldstone Report, but they would send a moral message of where the United States stands on the issue.

Labels: Barack Obama, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, United States Senate

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:48 AM