The US House of Representatives has condemned the UN Goldstone report, which accused Israel of committing war crimes in its 22-day war against the Palestinians in Gaza.
By a vote of 344 to 36, the members of the lower house of Congress approved a non-binding resolution that calls the report “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.”
The harshly worded resolution calls on President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration" of the critical report.
South African judge Richard Goldstone recently challenged the United States to justify its objections over his report about the December 27-January 18 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that killed over 1,400 Palestinians, with many of the victims women and children.
Goldstone recommended that the conclusions of the report be forwarded to the Hague-based International Criminal Court if the sides involved in the Gaza war failed to conduct credible investigations within six months.
Even Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip ahead of a UN General Assembly meeting on the Goldstone report.
A ruthless move by US lawmakers that reminds us how deeply rooted barbarism and self-convinced hypocrisy has become to american culture.
Is there a way to find out who voted against the condemnation?
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The United Nation's General Assembly has begun debating an investigative UN report charging Israel with war crimes during the Gaza war.
If endorsed, the 192-member assembly could request a formal debate in the Security Council, which has the power to open a war crimes prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Some 43 speakers are scheduled to take the floor during the debate, called by Arab nations with the backing of the 118-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Unlike Security Council resolutions, the General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding.
The report, prepared by the respected South African judge and former war-crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, calls for the prosecution of senior Israeli officials in the International Criminal Court at The Hague if Tel Aviv fails to launch its own investigations into the Gaza war under international scrutiny within six months.
The US, Israel's staunchest ally, however, is widely expected to veto any call for the ICC action against the Israeli officials. The United States has made a routine practice out of vetoing any Security Council resolution that is even critical of Israel, in effect giving Tel Aviv a free hand in continuing to violate the rights of the Palestinian population, as well as the territorial integrity of its neighbors, Lebanon and Syria.
In his address, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian observer to the United Nations, said that the Israeli military onslaught "was planned in all of its phases as a deliberately disproportionate and systematic attack aimed at punishing, humiliating and terrorizing the Palestinian civilian population."
The General Assembly is expected to vote on the issue on Thursday.
The Battle of Ar Mageddon is fast developing. The Euphrates has already dried up.
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