Palestine, October 19, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - No one can deny the professional experience of Richard Goldstone as a key jurist in the South Africa's Constitutional Court and a persecutor of war crimes in war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
He was the first man appointed by Nelson Mandella in South Africa's Constitutional Court. He is a very experienced man in the field of legal breaches of human rights.
But the dilemma here is with the games of the interests within the international community and the games of "working on both sides of some countries for some political gains. I don't want here to question the long experience of the international law and community, but the instincts convince me that the truth can't be veiled by the false allegations of both the USA and Israel and their spoiling attempt to postpone the report.
The false allegations/staements are made by the speech of US deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff: " Israel has the institutions to seriously investigate the allegations " this is the first lie;(because they did not do anyting about it) the second one said: -" the report and "the allegations of human rights and humanitarian law violations ... are not a matter for Security Council action"(then where does the matter belong?).
The shining truth is there are many Israeli assemblies and human rights institution in Israel such as Betseleem and the breaking the silence (an institution over the soldiers involvement in the crimes against the Palestinian in the so-called "Operation Cast Lead" are being prevented from investigating in these human rights issues.
Many of the incidents covered in the report will be familiar to those who followed the December/January Gaza War. It examines, for example, the attacks on hospitals and mosques, and the widely reported killings of Gaza civilians. The Report also looks at incidents that are not so well known, several of which are covered in a section titled "Attacks on the Foundation of Civilian Life in Gaza: Destruction of Industrial Infrastructure, Food Production, Water Installations, Sewage Treatment, and Housing." These include: the total destruction of the Al-Bader Flour Mill, the bulldozing and "systematic flattening" of the Sawafaery Chicken Farm (killing all 31,000 chickens), and the bombing of the raw sewage lagoons of the Gaza Water Sewage Treatment Plant causing 200,000 cubic meters of raw sewage to contaminate neighboring farmlands. These, the Report concludes, were not military targets, and were instead evidence of, "unlawful and wanton destruction, not justified by military necessity" and, hence, a war crimes.
Goldstone is not a liar, the truth in Gaza is so clear, the people in Gaza also suffered other repercussions ,. for example: the psychological trauma of the pupils in the schools; and the frustration wrapped ,among the youth, to await the international justice of their life-he talked on the physical killing of the youth in Gaza but -did not refer to the psychological impact of the war on the youth . in one of the smallest area in the world.
We can say he is so right again when he says that: the Palestinians need a psychological committee to investigate on the impacts of the war on the youth, the kids and even the elderly. The committee must be responsible for outlining and identifying the rates of the psychological trauma and the long-term effects.
My professor in the university taught me- that in God we trust, (looks like other factors could also help the Gazaan's Plight-which maybe has?)- and can we count accountability and justice?and bring it to the table to justify our "cruel actions? Israel had a chance to say that the report is distorted- how can one give weight to the psychological impact of the war on its children:The Israelis should be held liable for lying to the whole world about the atrocities committed by them for a long while.
We need more "Gold stones" in Gaza to throw on the Israeli hostile troops (the bad stones )-and on the Palestinian- fair cause, the gold stones. toward achieving their usurped rights in the international community.
Ayman Nijim is a strategic researcher working in Pal Think of strategic Studies, Gaza-based think tank.
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