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Netanyahu has lashed out against the Goldstone report, which he called 'distorted' [File: EPA]
Netanyahu has lashed out against the Goldstone report, which he called 'distorted' [File: EPA]
The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session in Geneva, as requested by the Palestinian Authority, in which the Goldstone report is expected to be addressed.

The session will begin on Thursday and is expected to last into the following day.

The request by the Palestinian Authority (PA) is co-sponsored by the 18 member states of the human rights council.

Those members are: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Indonesia, Jordan, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Senegal.

The meeting will be the 12th special session of the council, following the Security Council's open debate on the Middle East expected in New York on Wednesday.

Policy change

The Palestinians have pressed for a vote on the report at the UN Human Rights Council, effectively a policy reverse by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, whose government had earlier agreed to delay the vote for six months.

That decision, apparently made under US pressure, sparked sharp criticism and protests across Palestinian society.

Should a vote takes place by the council, the matter could be referred to higher UN bodies that could, in theory, push for a war-crimes prosecution.

The news of the UN special session comes a day after Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, lashed out against the Goldstone report, which criticises Israel for deliberately targeting civilians during its war on Gaza earlier this year.

He called the report, compiled by a team led by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, a "distorted report, written by this distorted committee".

"This report encourages terrorism and threatens peace," he said, and announced that he would never allow any of the country's leaders or soldiers to be put on trial for war crimes.

Disproportionate force

The Goldstone report accuses Israel of using disproportionate force, deliberately targeting civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure during a three-week offensive against Hamas from December to January.

The report, which focused primarily on the actions of Israel, also accused Hamas of war crimes by deliberately targeting civilians and trying to spread terror with rocket attacks.

Israeli officials across the board have condemned the report, saying their country had little choice but to respond to those rockets.

They also blame Hamas for civilian casualties in Gaza, saying fighters from the Palestinian faction which has de facto control of the territory, took cover in residential areas during the war.

But Goldstone's strong credentials as a respected jurist, his Jewish faith and past support for Israeli causes have made it hard for Israel to dismiss the claims.

About 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died as a result of the 22-day Gaza conflict which lasted from December into January.

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1. 23-10-2009 23:45
Being Palestinian is pretty lousy...
I-can hope that either before or perhaps sadly only after I-die I-will have gained a reputation as an honest man because it is something that I-have striven for with heart mind & soul for close on 30-years now for reasons of a 12-step spiritual regeneration nature not totally dissimilar to the AA thing as-well as an awareness of the certainty that the lake of fire Christ offered a rescue from would literally be post-supernova & of a fully natural cause & NOT a case of Christ rescuing us from his psycho father & with that in mind it dawned on me that a supernova is a pretty terrible thing & making my soul lie could easily cause me to become almost invisible to the spirits of the physical \"ELOYHIM\" beings whom Christ became one of in his resurrection & whom will help him scour the fire for the souls of those who believe in him (Trust-in Cling-to & Rely-upon) & to the contrary always trying my hardest to tell the truth might (I-thought) possibly make my soul & spirit more predictable & stable in the sight of Christ & therefore make my hopeful eventual rescue when the \"DAY OF-THE LORD\" happens late this century as I-believe & Abraham\'s bosom is turned into a fiery pit in the twinkling of an eye & all men women children & babies will seek the mercy & rescue that the Christ will offer... 
 
With that in mind as a measure of why I-would be taking the trouble to be almost fanatical in telling the truth & the whole truth & nothing but the truth & may Christ & his physical \"ELOYHIM FATHER\" & any of the physical \"ELOYHIM ANGELS\" who watch us with their projected spiritual presences also help-me tell the whole of the truth because I-am very serious in my believe that the prophesies of Isaiah & Christ about the sun one-day soon failing to shine & the prophecy of Christ & of St Peter in the 3rd chapter of his 2nd book where he seems to literally describe a supernova really does seem to be what will go down soon fulfilling the old type of religious prophesies of fire in many of the older mystical religions of the world & as I-had just said earlier I-do NOT want to be lost by my own stupidity by something as stupid as lying & so I-am refusing to do-it point blank... 
 
With that in mind I-must make some real confessions about firsthand knowledge of the reasons behind some of the grief that Palestinians are suffering being caused or rather literally set-up deliberately as part of a CIA \"BLACK-OP\" to do with Muslim Terror & also to do with the WW2 Zionist Illuminati war financiers (Of both sides) having an agenda to drive the Palestinians out of all of Palestine... There were many times when I-was talking to GHW-Bush after he had run one of the \"MK-ULTRA\" rape or drug-based hypnotic sessions on me over the years when he had personally set-up \"THE FAMILY CULT\" down in Australia & on one of those occasions George Herbert Walker talked about Yasser Arafat doing a deal in 1973 with the WW2 financiers who George himself answered to before he later appeared at the UN packing his sidearm etc & not long after that I-can remember him specifically bragging that the PLO had to come to him to get the \"GREEN LIGHT\" for any of the airplane bombings they were pursuing & you can make of that what you will because all I-am doing at this point is honestly retelling what he himself (Bush) personally told me... 
 
On another occasion I-can remember George Herbert Walker telling me about what he learned in his CIA position at the time to do with his own personal knowledge of US president Jimmy Carter signing a secret authorisation for CIA to go ahead with setting-up untraceable funding for the creation of the \"HAMAS\" organisation that you all know & are led to possibly rightly hate by your media either as them being an agent provocateur to justify the attacks of the IDF upon the Palestinian people or you may rightly hate them for the series of kiddie-car rocket attacks which they were suckered into doing which again justified so-many many IDF (Israeli Army) intrusions into mostly the Gaza & even into the West Bank although few if any rockets came from there... Let me run that by you again because maybe you might think you either heard me wrong or you read me wrong but again just in case George Herbert Walker Bush had told me in the kind of confidant conversation you may have with a young man you had terrorised for 15-odd years & had had drugged & raped (By others) that day & this was just kind of like \"Shooting-shit\" as the Yanks might say afterwards as things wound down... At the time he had probably rightly assumed that I-was \"IN-HIS POCKET\" so to speak which were the words he used to describe the illegal & unhealthy total control he had in my life since first intruding as some form of high level Zionist payback to my grandfather for something he had somehow done to them & I-was being made to pat for it by being a CIA shit-kicker asset destined in their mind to be a fall-goy eventually for their Muslim Terror black-op perhaps through my childhood friend \"PETER WILLIAM VANSTONE\" taking the place of his morbid near-perfect (2-inches) look-alike the Saudi-born \"OSAMA BIN-LADEN\" & whatever America Americans or US television tells you in between 1997 & 2004 whenever \"OSAMA\" (sic) appeared on their televisions it was really my childhood friend of 17-years \"PETER WILLIAM VANSTONE\" & I-had later found out that CIA had gained his unwilling cooperation including faking his-own death by early morning heart attack in 1984 by blackmailing him over a CIA specialty of George Herbert Walker Bush which was the pedophilia snuff-movie... 
 
So anyway thew other stuff is just there for perspective & background as to the how who when & why & the point of this comment is Bush-senior telling me before the fact that Carter had authorised the creation of \"HAMAS\" for the use of CIA as agent provocateurs in the dirty & fairly massive Muslim Terror black-op that Bush was trying to juggle while also attempting to please his Zionist masters & perhaps at one time before he broke every promise he ever made to me regarding my loved-ones & perhaps also allowing me to use him to help stop WW3 BEFORE it happens as he once promised to do & this is more important than you may think as stopping it after it happens is pretty damn lame dumb & extraordinarily stupid whether you\'re Jewish Zionist Goyim or neither... 
 
Have a nice day America... 
 
Stop blocking my compensation... 
 
ROBBY DANIEL...
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