This whole thing has not even any legal ground. It has just the function of a "counsel".
I've read the news in Germany's major news sites, and believe me this report will not contribute anything to it to change the position of Germans to Hamas and Palestine in a positive way, it will just worsen it more.

"The bad (terrorist) Muslims and their sympathizers are trying to accuse the good Jews! And they do that in our UN! Unbelievable!"

"Despite the mission’s charges over Israeli war crimes, South African jurist Richard Goldstone actually bent over backwards to protect Israel as much as possible"

Jeff Halper

http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=552

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find out why, here:

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WATCH:

Hamas's "crimes against humanity" and israel's "innocence":

http://palestinian.ning.com/forum/topics/the-other-side-of-the-story

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My mission – and motivation

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255694838474&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

By RICHARD GOLDSTONE

“as a Jew who has supported Israel and its people all my life………………I sincerely believed that because of my own record and the terms of the mission's mandate we would receive the cooperation of the Israeli government. Its refusal to cooperate was a grave error."

“Israel missed a golden opportunity to actually have a fair hearing from a UN-sponsored inquiry. Of course, I was aware of and have frequently spoken out against the unfair and exceptional treatment of Israel by the UN and especially by the Human Rights Council. I did so again last week. Israel could have seized the opportunity provided by the even-handed mandate of our mission and used it as a precedent for a new direction by the United Nations in the Middle East. Instead, we were shut out"

"As I stated in response to a recent letter from the mayor of Sderot, I believed strongly that our mission should have been allowed to visit Sderot and other parts of southern Israel……………..We were prevented from doing so by, what I believe, was a misguided decision by the Israeli government."
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This Goldstone report was cleansed by Goldstone to protect Israel and to include an occupied people, Palestinians, as being guilty of “war” crimes and “crimes against humanity” when Goldstone, as a judge, knows that an occupied people have EVERY RIGHT to resist the occupiers

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"MY FATHER IS A ZIONIST, LOVES ISRAEL"

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804583376&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

Quote:

“Nicole Goldstone, the daughter of Richard Goldstone, whose report on Operation Cast Lead alleged that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, maintained on Wednesday that her father "is a Zionist and loves Israel."

"Speaking from Toronto, where she now lives, Nicole told Army Radio she had many conversations with her father after he was asked to head the UN inquiry………….

She said she planned to host her parents in Toronto for Rosh Hashana, and that while speaking with her father following the report's release, he had quipped, "Are you sure we can still come?"

"Nicole insisted that the fact the report also accused the Palestinians of crimes against humanity showed that her father tried to be balanced.

"I am not angry with him. I love him and respect him," she said."

"He is a Zionist," she added. "My dad loves Israel and it wasn't easy for him to see and hear what happened. I think he heard and saw things he didn't expect to see and hear, and I am 100 percent sure he [conducted the investigation] in the hope that the Israelis would come to cooperate, and he wanted to help find a long-term solution for the state of Israel."

Nicole, who lived in Israel for six months, said that the country "is the most important thing in my life, my heart is there…. I love Israel more than my family and friends and anything else."
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