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U.N. Face Off: Goldstone Accused by Israeli Rocket Victim  "Why Didn't You Tell Me U.N. Council Declared Israel Guilty From the Start? Why Did You Humiliate Me?"  Geneva, September 29, 2009 - The U.N. Human Rights Council plenary witnessed a dramatic face-off today when the head of its controversial "fact-finding" mission on Gaza -- in which Israel was declared guilty from the start -- was unexpectedly confronted by one of his own witnesses.  In a surprise appearance arranged by the Geneva human rights organization UN Watch, Dr. Mirela Siderer -- an Israeli doctor who was brutally disfigured in 2008 by a rocket attack fired from Gaza into her Ashkelon medical clinic -- pointedly accused Goldstone of ignoring her July oral testimony in his report, and of failing to disclose material information concerning the prior statements of the Human Rights Council and panel members declaring Israel guilty in advance. (RealPlayer Download file--Click for video). The speech was published in full today by Canada's National Post, and covered widely in Switzerland, Israel and worldwide.  Sitting on the dais, Goldstone was visibly shaken by Dr. Siderer's challenge and scrambled for a copy of her speech. His response to the plenary ignored 7 of her questions, and inadequately responded to the 8th. See full text and video below. For UN Watch's play-by-play Twitter of today's heated debate, click here.  I feel humiliated. ***********  My name is Dr. Mirela Siderer. I am a gynecologist living in Ashkelon, Israel.
Where was this council? Why were you all silent?  Goldstone's Response: (video) Here is Dr. Siderer's original testimony; here is Goldstone's report. Search her name -- it turns up but once, in passing, in par. 1640. Goldstone' s claim that other witnesses were given similar treatment is manifestly false: see, e.g., the report's repeated and in-depth discussion of witness Abu Askar. What is clear is that the report gives short shrift to Israeli suffering by its selective focus on the period of Israel's response to the rocket attacks (Dec. 2008 and Jan. 2009), instead of to the attacks themselves (2001-2009). ======================= Resource Materials on Goldstone Report Â
 Articles and Analysis Human Rights Watch, "Israel/Gaza: Cooperate With Goldstone Investigation," April 14, 2009.
Hillel Neuer and Marissa Cramer, "A case study in UN hypocrisy," National Post, July 17, 2009
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "The Operation in Gaza -- Factual and Legal Aspects", July 29, 2009
Yagil Henkin, "When everything is a crime", AISS, August 13, 2009
Irwin Cotler, "The Goldstone Mission-Tainted to the Core (Part I),"Â Jerusalem Post, Aug. 16, 2009
Irwin Cotler, "The Goldstone Mission-Tainted to the Core (Part II),"Â Jerusalem Post, Aug. 18, 2009
Kenneth Roth, "Don't smear the messenger," Jerusalem Post, August 25, 2009
Hillel Neuer, "Ends Justify the Means?", UN Watch blog, August 27, 2009
Gerald Steinberg, "Isolating Israel through language of human rights,"Â Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2009
NGO Monitor, "The Goldstone 'Fact Finding' Mission and the Role of Political NGOs," Sept. 7, 2009
The Economist, "Goldstone on Gaza: Opportunity missed", September 17, 2009
Richard Goldstone, "Justice in Gaza", New York Times, September 17, 2009
David Harris, "The Goldstone Report: Three Strikes and You're Out!,"Â September 18, 2009
Jonathan Halevi, "How the Goldstone Commission understanded the Hamas threat to Palestinian civilians", ICA - Jerusalem Center, September 18, 2009
Richard Goldstone, "Who's being unfair?", Jerusalem Post, September 21, 2009
Jackson Diehl, "Israel's Gaza Vindication", Washington Post, September 21, 2009
Alan Dershowitz, "The Goldstone report is a barrier to peace", Jerusalem Post, September 22, 2009
Jeffrey Robbins, "Geopolitics, human rights and Israel", Boston Globe, September 23, 2009
Michael Oren, "UN report a victory for terror", Boston Globe, September 24, 2009
Asa Kasher, "Operation Cast Lead and the ethics of a just war", Azure, September, 2009
Ehud Barak, "At the UN, terrorism pays"Â Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2009
UN Watch Request to Disqualify Christine Chinkin Due to Overt Bias Reports on initial UN Watch Petition to Disqualify Christine Chinkin in Agence France Presseand Deutsche Presse Agentur, July 7, 2009
28-page PDF:Â UN Watch Legal Brief to Disqualify Christine Chinkin, August 20, 2009 (supported by 50 British and Canadian lawyers)
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