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Investigating the Attacks in Gaza

Thursday 22 October 2009

by: Bill Moyers Journal  |  t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

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Jabalia, just outside Gaza City, has faced strong attacks by Israel. (Photo: rafahkid / flickr)

    Airtime: Friday, October 23, 2009, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).

    A damning report from the UN Human Rights Council on the violence in Gaza late last year has put Israel on the defensive. Bill Moyers talks with the man at the center of the storm, Justice Richard Goldstone, who, despite working with many pro-Israel groups and Israeli institutions in the past, has drawn intense criticism from some of Israel's supporters for his report, which said Israel's Defense Forces as well as Hamas may have committed war crimes in Gaza earlier this year. Goldstone is a renowned war-crimes investigator, who has looked into human rights abuses in his native South Africa as well as the former Yugoslavia, Argentina and Rwanda.

  

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Suggest you see former

 Fri, 10/23/2009 - 02:46 — Anonymous (not verified)
Suggest you see former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp's comments on the Goldstone report and re the IDF's efforts at minimizing civilian casualties in Gaza. On Google and YouTube.

I second the suggestion made

 Fri, 10/23/2009 - 05:51 — Regina (not verified)
I second the suggestion made by Anonymous 02:46. Apparently it's just fine for Hamas to shoot rockets into civilian areas of Israel, but Israel is to be condemned for defending herself -- at long last. And Hamas embedding military installations in civilian facilities is just fine, guaranteed to bring about more international condemnation of Israel for hitting civilians while aiming at military forces. Apparently Goldstone doesn't understand that the dice in this "game" are loaded.

Reply to Regina. The

 Fri, 10/23/2009 - 13:36 — MIke (not verified)
Reply to Regina. The damnation wasn't about Israel defending itself. It was about Israel's criminal negligence of its duty to avoid targeting civilians WHERE POSSIBLE. It was about the use of weaponry outlawed by international law. It was about Israel wounding and killing FAR more civilians, and laying waste to civilian areas, including attacking hospitals and doctors, far in excess of the casualties it has sustained in Hamas' rocket attacks. It was about Israel using innocent civilians as a way to punish Hamas. That would be like us invading and completely destroying Egypt, because many of the 911 terrorists were Egyptian.

So its just fine for the

 Fri, 10/23/2009 - 13:47 — TONGBERG (not verified)
So its just fine for the brutal military occupation of Palestine to continue. Naturally the occupiers are not criminals but really the victims . So now game is up the, cat is out of the bag ,the horse has left the stable and its hard to sleep when your bed is burning. The Goldstone report dares to bare the truth so now we can expect a deluge of damage control . Israel will find creative ways to justify the brutalization of the indigenous population. But will the rest of the world stand by and do nothing ? Divest ,boycott and spread the truth.

Stop referring to Israel as

 Fri, 10/23/2009 - 15:01 — Anonymous (not verified)
Stop referring to Israel as "she" it is insulting to women

this is not the first time

 Fri, 10/23/2009 - 23:59 — tybro (not verified)
this is not the first time for Israel to do the unconscionable. Look what it did in Lebanon, it shelled the refugee camps filled with palestinian, women and children. Later it invade lebanon and droped cluster bomb on these same people. killing thousands Under the same pretense they shot rocket at us. hopfully the world will no longer turn it's eyes from these crimes.