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U.S.: Goldstone Report "Unbalanced, One-Sided and Unacceptable"


[Washington Post] America's UN Ambassador Susan Rice said in an interview Tuesday: "The mandate was unbalanced, one-sided and unacceptable....The weight of the report is something like 85% oriented towards very specific and harsh condemnation and conclusions related to Israel and very lightly treats without great specificity Hamas' terrorism and its own atrocities." "The fundamental problem with this particular report is it was hatched with a bias inherent in its mandate....It comes from a body whose track record and history is one of focusing unduly and excessively on one country, Israel, to the exclusion of credible sustained treatment of the world's most egregious instances of human rights abuses in places like Sudan or Zimbabwe or Burma."
2009-09-23 08:00:00
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