Ha'aretz.com (Israel) : "Israel seeks Obama backing over Gaza war probe" par Barak Ravid et Anshel Pfeffer

Last update - 03:10 17/09/2009   


Israel seeks Obama backing over Gaza war probe  

By Barak Ravid and Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondents  

Tags: Goldstone Commission report 
 
Israel Wednesday asked a number of senior members of the Obama administration to assist in curbing the international fallout from the Goldstone Commission report released this week, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

The Foreign Ministry decided Wednesday to focus their efforts to combat the report's accusations on the United States, Russia and a few other members of the United Nations Security Council and the Human Rights Council that are involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Israeli message is that the Goldstone report threatens those countries because it makes the war on terror very difficult, and therefore efforts must be made to prevent it from being brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague...................
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115233.html


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