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How Isarael bought off uns war crimes probe

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By Jonnathan Cook

(source: The Electronic Intifada)

Israel celebrated at the weekend its success at the United Nations in forcing the Palestinians to defer demands that the International Criminal Court investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israel during its winter assault on the Gaza Strip.

The about-turn, following vigorous lobbying from Israel and the United States, appears to have buried the damning report of Judge Richard Goldstone into the fighting, which killed some 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians.

Israeli diplomats suggested on Sunday that Washington had promised the Palestinian Authority, in return for delaying an inquiry, that the US would apply "significant pressure" on Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to move ahead on a diplomatic process when the US envoy, George Mitchell, arrives in the region tomorrow.

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Qaradawi urges muslims to make next friay a day in support of aqsa mosque

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CAIRO, (PIC)– Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of the international association of Muslim scholars, called Monday on the Arab and Muslim peoples to make next Friday a day of anger in support of the Aqsa Mosque against the Zionist dangers threatening it.

In a news conference held in the Egyptian press union in Cairo, Sheikh Qaradawi waned that the Zionist dangers that threaten the Mosque had reached an unprecedented level that must be confronted by all means possible.

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Pa betrayal

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By Khalid Amayreh

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) decision to defer  until March a vote on the “Goldstone report” at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva constitutes a huge betrayal of Palestinian people.

Likewise, the stupid and disgraceful feat immensely serves  the Israeli goal of covering up the Nazi-like crimes the Israeli occupation army committed during its manifestly criminal war on the Gaza Strip nine months ago.

Endorsement of the report by UNHRC would probably  have paved the way for the prosecution of Israeli war criminals before  the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as  International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

The PA has given a plethora of  mostly  mendacious pretexts to justify the scandalous act which numerous Palestinians, ordinary people as well as intellectuals, have described as an expression of national treason.

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