US House of Reps condemns Goldstone report
THE United States House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Richard Goldstone report.
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Richard Goldstone report.
The vote on Tuesday was 344 to 36 and urged the Obama administration to keep the report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes in the Gaza war from advancing through the United Nations system.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which lobbied hard for the non-binding resolution, said it “strongly applauds” its passing.
“Congress is sending a strong message that the United States will not agree to turn the victim into the perpetrator,” AIPAC said.
The vote comes on the eve of debate on the report in the UN General Assembly; the report has already been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council.
The resolution “calls on the President and the Secretary of State to continue to strongly and unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict in multilateral fora, including through leading opposition to any United Nations General Assembly resolution and through vetoing, if necessary, any United Nations Security Council resolution that endorses the contents of this report.”
JTA
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