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The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict Paperback – Illustrated, January 11, 2011

by Adam Horowitz (Editor), Lizzy Ratner (Editor), Philip Weiss (Editor),
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The Goldstone Report is one of the most controversial UN reports ever published. It alleges that both Israel and Hamas committed atrocities during Israel's 2009 incursion into Gaza, with Israel aiming to "punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population." This characterization incited an uproar in Israel and abroad. Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding the findings supplanted any real understanding of their implications. Edited by three progressive American Jews, The Goldstone Report contains analysis; commentary by Desmond Tutu, Naomi Klein, and Rashid Khalidi, among others; and a context for debate.
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Starred Review. American journalists Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss provide a comprehensive picture of the 2009 Gaza conflict in this abridged version of the UN Fact-Finding Mission's report on the Gaza Conflict commonly known as "the Goldstone Report." Much more than a simple paring down of the controversial original document, which recounts human rights abuses committed by both Israel and Hamas, this edition is enhanced by oral testimonies and essays from experts following the report's publication. The evocative oral testimonies describing limbs strewn about a bombed mosque and young girls shot in front of their father inject a harrowing human element to counterbalance the report's dispassionate tone. The additional essays, including Tutu's eloquent foreword, offer an array of thought-provoking perspectives on the validity of the report, the vehement debates it has generated, and its effects on judge Goldstone himself, who became the victim of "Jewish excommunication" for what some perceived as a betrayal of Israel. An essential read for those concerned with accurate documentation of historical events and nations' accountability for their treatment of civilians living in war zones. (Jan.)
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Adam Horowitz lives in New York City, where he is co-editor of Mondoweiss. Horowitz is the former Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee. He holds a master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University.

A journalist also based in New York, Lizzy Ratner has written for the New York Times and the Nation. She was previously a reporter for the New York Observer.

Philip Weiss is an investigative journalist who has written for the New York Observer, the Nation, the American Conservative, National Review, Washington Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Harper's, and Jewish World Review. He also wrote the 2004 book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps. He is the founder of a popular news website, Mondoweiss, devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bold Type Books; 1st edition (January 11, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568586418
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568586410
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 11 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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jeremy
5.0 out of 5 stars essential reading!
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2014
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this is a very important book and contains lots of information that is shocking to read, but every devent civil person, owes it to themselves to read this fine book.
as a jew i am horrified at the unparalleled brutality and visciousioness being directed at the palestinians by the previous and current government of israel and the israel defence forces.
israel think they clearly have an unlimited licence to kill arbitrarily and on a large scale.
israel have shown that they are prepared to kill scores of innocent civilians, in order to execute one 'wanted' person.
its a pity this book doesnt have photos-or not in the kindle version anyway.
they should have show how the israeli soldiers defecated for 'kicks' in the homes of the palestinians whom they were besieging.
israel would not allow goldstone to enter israel and interview witnesses properly because they knew that this would not be in their narrow interest. so he went to the trouble of flying witnesses overseas.
in the end when goldstone came to the fair conclusion that both israel and hamas appear to be guilty of war crimes, he was called the most terrible and offensive names. israel and its followers then proceeded to make his life so intolerable, that he has absolutely no choice but to say that he made a mistake. but if you saw the well orchestrated worldwide hate campaign him, you would know the real reason why he retracted his carefully considered initial assessment
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Joy Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars United Nations report on 'Cast Lead' - Israel's bombing of Gaza.
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014
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Dr Goldsone is an eminent and respected South African jurist. His report documents factual information on Israel's bombing of Gaza. A must read for those interested in the realities for the people of Gaza and this complements the experiential account of Dr Mads Gilbert, Norwegian Doctor who was in Gaza at the time in his book 'Eyes on Gaza'.
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Ray Doherty
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Worth Reading
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2011
The Israeli government vociferously condemned the Goldstone Report as biased, yet Israel refused to participate in the initial investigation and provided no input nor defense of Israeli army actions against Gaza. The report was also denounced as lies by many Israeli spokesmen. It is very clear from the Goldstone report that the lives and safety of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was of little consequence to the Israeli army. More than 1,200 innocent Palestinian men, women and children died as a result of Israeli bombardments and other actions in Gaza. I certainly don't defend the crimes, reckless provocations and murder of innocent Israelis by Hamas rockets; nonetheless, it is evident from this report that there were Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza as well. Only the U.S. and Israel seem blind to this fact. Israel has a right to defend itself, but it does not have a right to murder innocent civilians while using disproportionate force in densely populated civilian areas. Israel's liberal use of white phosphorus in Gaza was also a violation of international law.

This is not the first time that Israel used disproportionate force in civilian areas. Israel also killed many innocent civilians in the Lebanon conflict a few years ago. Many of the U.S. supplied cluster bombs dropped by Israel in Lebanon continue to harm and kill Lebanese civilians to this day.

One of the events outlined in the Report described the Israeli sniper shooting of Palestinian women holding white flags, including a pregnant Palestinian woman. One of the Israeli snipers eventually did face reduced charges, but he was not charged with murder.

In April, 2011 Justice Goldstone stated that the Israeli government did not deliberately target Gaza civilians during the conflict, and they investigated some of the alleged human rights violations. He also noted that Hamas has conducted no investigations of their forces targeting civilians. Even though Israel did not in most cases target civilians specifically, they continued to fire in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza, leading to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians. It is of little consolation to Palestinian families that their dead loved ones were not deliberately targeted by the Israeli army.

As long as the U.S. government provides unconditional support to Israel regardless of their often reckless actions, Israel will likely continue its agressive retaliatory policies leading to needless death and injury of innocent Palestinian civilians. There is little doubt that Israel's unjust and illegal occupation policies in the Palestinian Territories are the root cause of the violence in the region.
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Riv
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein Dokument der israelischen Schreckensherrschaft über die Palästinenser.
Reviewed in Germany on September 11, 2024
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Im Goldstone Report wurde dokumentiert, wie Israel Palästinenser als menschliche Schutzschilde verwendet hat. Interessant, weil es immer anders herum behauptet wird.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Distilled Poison
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2012
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The Goldstone Report is a work of fiction. This is what should have been a fair and unbiased fact-finding exercise conducted by a world-renowned judge and his three 'expert' colleagues. The four authors of the report have displayed shocking bias in their determination to paint Israel as the criminal and the real criminals as the victims. From the very start it was plain that this was what the UNHRC wanted.

The mandate handed to Goldstone was deeply flawed and one-sided by his own admission: it read in part: '...strongly condemning the on-going Israeli military operation which has resulted in massive violations of the human rights of the Palestine people and systematic destruction of Palestinian infrastructure.' You don't need to be a genius to know where this is going. This is BEFORE the mission was assembled. Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson was originally asked to head it up but rightly refused on the grounds that it was not only biased but that the Council made a practice of '...adopting resolutions guided not by human rights but by politics. This is very regrettable.'

The mission was tainted from the outset. Christine Chinkin, LSE professor and barrister with the Matrix Chambers, should have recused herself at the outset on the grounds that she had previously signed an open letter (to the London Times, I believe) entitled 'Israel's Bombardment of Gaza is not Self-Defence - It Is a War Crime.' Of course she didn't. The other three, including Goldstone himself, had displayed their attitude by writing open letters elsewhere that showed similar bias. The team must have been chosen on the basis of their hostility to Israel.

I haven't space or time to go into the dozens of examples of this anti-Israel bias, but believe me, there are many. At least Goldstone, forced into a half-hearted retraction after all the damage had been done, has seen his reputation shredded. He refuses now to engage in public debate on his report.

The way the UNHRC behaved was truly shameful. What makes me so angry is the damage this has done to Israel, because although a mountain of literature has grown from those who have subsequently exposed the incompetence, flawed methodology, bigotry and plain lies (yes LIES!) contained in the Report, the effects of its publication are so profound they will probably never be fully redressed. After all, aren't first impressions the most important?

I will say something about impressions though. The report states several times that on the basis of evidence it received it finds that Israel did deliberately target Palestinian civilians. i.e. that Israel committed mass murder. That evidence was given in the presence of Hamas fighters, and never in camera. Some time earlier Hamas gunmen had entered a Gaza hospital and executed, in their beds, 12 Palestinians the gunmen said had been 'collaborators.' So those witnesses for the prosecution were acutely aware of what would happen if they did not recount the Hamas version. Not only that, but for reasons Goldstone has never adequately explained, he insisted the mission's hearings be conducted live on TV! Was he mad? Or was he malign? Either way, those witness statements were delivered under duress. And evidence to the contrary freely available then as now on the Web was ignored. Impressions that will linger in the memory of all viewers at the time unaware of what I have just written.

As the Holocaust recedes from living memory so does antisemism continue its steady crawl from the pit. And this report belongs in a museum of antisemitism, alongside the Protocols, Kein Kampf and copies of Der Sturmer.

By the way, I am not a Jew, just an unremarkable Englishman, baffled by the unprecedented demonisation of Israel that has proceeded apace over more than sixty years.
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