BACKGROUND INFO
Courtesy Honest Reporting

The United Nations fact-finding mission examining Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza has been published. Headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, the mission's 575-page report found that "Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity."

You can read the online PDF report HERE

Here are some of the failings the Goldstone Report:

> Israel did not deliberately target the civilian population of Gaza and, in fact, made efforts to prevent civilian casualties that no other army in the world would have done.

> Contrary to the assertions of Goldstone, Hamas did use Palestinian civilians as human shields.

> The Goldstone Report is not objective and is, in fact tainted by bias and politicization, both from the UN Human Rights Council and members of the mission itself.

> The report relied upon the contributions of anti-Israel non-governmental organizations and unreliable Palestinian "eyewitnesses."

> Israel respects human rights and has a sophisticated legal and judicial system. Hamas does not. Yet the report has created an unjust equivalence of a democratic state with a terror organization.