Despite Heavy Jewish lobbying, EU Endorses Goldstone Report
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Europe News, Israel & Jewish Issues
Despite an intensive lobbying effort on the part of European Jewish groups, the European Parliament has endorsed the Goldstone report, the UN’s official investigation into the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in January 2009, a report that accuses Israel of war crimes and calls for the prosecution of Israeli officials in the Hague.
While the report found both sides had committed war crimes, Tel Aviv has since attempted to rubbish the document, an effort that has met success in the U.S. Congress, which last November passed a resolution calling the report “Irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.”
EU parliamentary deputies in recent days have been inundated by lobbying emails from the European Jewish Congress over the vote. A spokesman for this group told this website that it had been “definitely a really major effort by the EJC, but it’s only a work in progress and there’s still a lot of work to do.”
Yeah yeah, the EU like the US will do nothing to israel. It is all for show and tell.
Another report to be buried in the archives.