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Australia refuses to support Goldstone report
Australian News.Net
Friday 6th November, 2009
Australia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of what has become known as the Goldstone Report.
Justice Richard Goldstone, a former war crimes prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, led an investigation of alleged war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the 2008/9 Gaza War. He produced a 574-page report which was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council, which referred it to the General Assembly.
On Tuesday night, on the eve of the debate of the report in the General Assembly, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 344-36 to reject the report.
Australia, which generally sides with Israel and the U.S. on matters relating to Israel, once again sided with the Jewish state voting against the UN resolution. The resolution however was won convincingly with 118 nations voting for the report’s adoption against 18 dissenters. Another 44 countries abstained from voting.
Australia’s representative said during the debate his delegation had been deeply saddened by the conflict in the Gaza Strip and Southern Israel and that it regretted how efforts to address the situation since had stalled.
Australia voted against the resolution on the Goldstone Report because of its flawed content, the representative said. However, that did not undermine the humanitarian welfare of the Palestinian people before, during and after that crisis, which remained unacceptable. Australia did support a proper investigation of any breach of humanitarian rights and laws. It was crucial for such a serious matter to be dealt with properly. He called on both parties to investigate them and to inform the UN of their results.  Email this story to a friend
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kaftay
11-06-09, 12:31 PM |
Australia votes against UN adoption of Goldstone Report
No country should vote as a political statement or because of a political alliance. It should vote because it agrees or not agrees!
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Dr Gideon Polya
11-06-09, 03:33 PM |
Australia refuses to support Goldstone Report
In the most recent Israeli Gaza Massacre in what the Catholic Church has described as the Israeli Gaza Concentration Camp, the Israelis killed about 1,400 Palestinians in reprisals for ZERO (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza missiles in the previous year. Richard Goldstone is an outstanding Jewish South African judge with a fine record in the area of human rights. Apartheid Australia’s refusal to support the Goldstone Report is shameful and cements its financial, military and diplomatic support for racist Zionist-run, nuclear terrorist rogue state of Apartheid Israel. Apartheid Australia continues to horribly abuse its Indigenous Australian Aboriginal inhabitants while supporting Apartheid Israel and its horrible abuse of Indigenous Palestinians. Sanctions should be applied to war criminal and climate criminal Apartheid Australia for its involvement in and support for the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide, Aboriginal Genocide and the worsening Climate Genocide that will kill 10 billion non-Europeans (6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims and 2 billion Indians) this century.
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gas wylde
11-07-09, 06:27 PM |
Australia's Shame
'Perverse' is the only word that applies to any supposedly secular and multi-racial nation supporting either openly or by stealth an avowed and xenophobic military regime. Such entities will reap what they have sowed. The Goldstone report should have been adopted everywhere without a dissenting voice. Are we in Australia so blinded by the sheer magnitude of global conflict that we now abandon entire peoples to their fate at hands of brutes like the Zionist state and their major affiliates?
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