The article of Judge Richard Goldstone in which he retracted his statement that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza during the 2008-2009 war, “does not in any way change EU's consistent line calling on all parties to respect international law,” an EU spokesperson told EJP.
Italian MEP Firorello Provera thinks that the EU should call for the Goldstone Report on the Gaza war to be rectified after his author retracted the conclusions on Israel.
Reaching peace in the Middle East is more urgent than ever as pro-democracy uprisings rock the Arab world, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after meeting his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.
Peres spoke after meeting with the U.S. president in Washington, where the two leaders discussed the impact of recent Mideast turmoil on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman has denied that his government offered to stop investigating two deadly bombing attacks against a Jewish centers and the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in the 1990s in return for improved trade ties with Iran.
''The world will now begin to comprehend and acknowledge the fundamental difference between democratic Israel and the extremists who seek Israel’s destruction,'' said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in a reaction to an opinion article published by Richard Goldstone in the Washington Post in which he retracts the central findings of the Goldstone Commission Report, the United Nations Human Rights Council-mandated investigation he led into Israel’s 2009 Operation in Gaza.
Israeli President Shimon Peres departed Sunday for the United States where he will hold talks with US President Barack Obama aimed at furthering regional peace efforts.
