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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/world/middleeast/24goldstone.html
Israel Poised to Challenge UN Report on Gaza
(New York Times) Ethan Bronner - The Israeli military is completing a rebuttal to a UN report accusing it of grave violations of international and humanitarian law in Gaza a year ago. Maj. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, the Israeli military advocate general, said in an interview that the assertions of the Goldstone report went beyond anything of which others had accused Israel. "I have read every report, from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Arab League," he said. "We ourselves set up investigations into 140 complaints. It is when you read these other reports and complaints that you realize how truly vicious the Goldstone report is. He made it look like we set out to go after the economic infrastructure and civilians, that it was intentional. It's a vicious lie."