Remember Israel’s Hanukkah attack on Gaza at the beginning of this year, using U.S. made weapons with the full support of the U.S. political class, and which resulted in a massacre of 1,400 people, most of whom were civilians and many of whom were women and children?
U.N. investigator Richard Goldstone issued a report accusing Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including “indiscriminate use of firepower; deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian structures, including hospitals, schools, mosques, water and sewage plants, and rescue vehicles; use of white phosphorus munitions in built-up areas; use of human shields; abusive treatment of detainees; imposition of a blockade on Gaza before and after the attack itself…”
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted this month to support the report, with the United States voting against it for all of the usual reasons.
Despite the fact that Goldstone is a respected war crimes prosecutor and is himself Jewish,and also accused Hamas of war crimes, Obama administration officials have intimated without citing any details that the report is flawed and biased. Goldstone is now daring the U.S. to point out any inaccuracies.
Cited in the Goldstone report are the testimonies of Israeli veterans of “Operation Cast Lead” gathered by the group Breaking the Silence. Follow that link to download all of the testimonies, or you can read excerpts here, where Israeli solders talk about the “insane” amounts of firepower they used against civilians.
One soldier said he felt like “an infantile little kid with a magnifying glass looking at ants, burning them.”
