FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Geneva, Oct. 1, 2009 - UN Watch comments on the surprise news that the Palestinian draft resolution on the Goldstone report has been withdrawn prior to voting tomorrow at the UN Human Rights Council:
“This constitutes a massive defeat for Mr. Goldstone’s biased report, a slipshod piece of work whose scattershot recommendations to the entire world threatened to harm, not help, the peace process,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva human rights monitoring group.
“Goldstone’s reliance on Hamas witnesses — including the same Hamas police spokesman , Islam Shahwan, that accused Israel of distributing aphrodisiac gum to corrupt Gaza youth — reflected the biased agenda of the Arab-controlled UN Human Rights Council, which created the ‘fact-finding’ mission by declaring Israel guilty in advance.”
It’s interesting how Palestinians cash in on the Goldstone report. Now Abbas is sorry that he has postponed action on the Goldstone report. And there’s an article showing that the new Nobel laureate should have made him trash it altogether, but didn’t!
http://samsonblinded.org/news/palestinians-undeterred-by-obama-13838