[Hudson Institute New York] Alan M. Dershowitz - Richard Goldstone himself now seems to be backing away from his report's conclusions. In an interview with the Jewish Daily Forward, Goldstone denied that his group had conducted "an investigation." Instead, it was what he called a "fact-finding mission" based largely on the limited "material we had." Since this "material" was cherry-picked by Hamas guides and spokesmen, Goldstone acknowledged that "if this was a court of law, there would have been nothing proven." He emphasized that the report was no more than "a road map" for real investigators and that it contained no actual "evidence" of wrongdoing by Israel. Goldstone said that he himself "wouldn't consider it in any way embarrassing if many of the allegations turn out to be disproved." The writer is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
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