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U.S. House of Represnetatives overwhelmingly rejects Goldstone Report
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Wednesday 4th November, 2009 (ANI)
A non-binding resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza, has been passed in the US House of Representatives with an overwhelming majority.
344 representatives voted in favour of the resolution asking the Obama administration to oppose the Goldstone Report, while 36 voted against it.
”The 344 supporters have apparently not read the report,” Human Rights Watch senior researcher Fred Abrahams said Wednesday. ”The 574-page document records violations of the laws of war by Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, and concludes that all sides committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.”
Wednesday's voting came in the light of judge Richard Goldstone criticizing the resolution, which terms the fact-finding report into the Israeli army's Operation Cast Lead as "irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy."
The bill, introduced by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Howard Berman (D-CA), the ranking member and chairman, respectively, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calls on President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the report."
Ros-Lehtinen and Berman were in Jerusalem a day earlier attending a conference on reinforcing U.S.-Israeli ties.
Ahead of a UN General Assembly debate on the report on Wednesday, European nations have engaged in a tug of war with Arab states on a resolution.
While Arab nations are pushing a resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report, the EU countries are lobbying for amendment in the existing resolution and sending the matter back to Geneva, the Jerusalem Post reports.
In an attempt to scuttle efforts by Arab states to bring the matter to the Security Council, and from there to the International Criminal Court, EU states were emphasizing accountability for crimes against humanity and calling on Israelis and Palestinians to launch investigations into war crimes.
Austrian Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, who is president of the Security Council this month, signalled that the Goldstone Report could be discussed in the council before the month's end.
"It seems, evidently, highly likely to me that delegations and perhaps also the High Commissioner [for Refugees] or her designate will refer to this and other regional issues that involve the protection of civilians," he told reporters in New York.
Of the 36 votes against Wednesday's resolution, only three came from Republicans. One of the dissenters, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), spoke out agaist the resolution. "This is a mistake. The stance of this Congress will erode U.S. credibility in the post-Obama world, and it will tarnish our commitment to the principle that all nations must be held to the same standards," he said.
"We stand for the values of democracy, truth and justice. There is no reason for Congress, Israel or any other party to fear an honest judge," he added. "Richard Goldstone is such a judge, and his report should be studied, not dismissed."
Those that voted in favour of the resolution were:
Aderholt
Adler (NJ)
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Austria
Baca
Bachus
Barrow
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boccieri
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carter
Cassidy
Castle
Castor (FL)
Chaffetz
Chandler
Childers
Chu
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cohen
Cole
Conaway
Connolly (VA)
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Dreier
Driehaus
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emerson
Engel
Etheridge
Fallin
Fattah
Flake
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frank (MA)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Guthrie
Hall (TX)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Harper
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Hodes
Hoekstra
Holden
Hoyer
Hunter
Inglis
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilroy
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Kosmas
Kratovil
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (NY)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Maffei
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey (CO)
Markey (MA)
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (CA)
McCarthy (NY)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McMahon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Minnick
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Tim
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Nye
Oberstar
Olson
Ortiz
Paulsen
Pence
Perlmutter
Perriello
Peters
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis (CO)
Pomeroy
Posey
Putnam
Quigley
Radanovich
Rangel
Rehberg
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Space
Spratt
Stearns
Sullivan
Sutton
Tanner
Taylor
Teague
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walden
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Watson
Waxman
Weiner
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Those that voted against the resolution were:
Baird
Baldwin
Blumenauer
Boustany
Capps
Carson (IN)
Clarke
Clay
Davis (KY)
Dingell
Doggett
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Filner
Grijalva
Hinchey
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lynch
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Miller, George
Moran (VA)
Olver
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Price (NC)
Rahall
Snyder
Stark
Waters
Watt
Woolsey
The following Members abstained from voting:
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Bachmann
Barrett (SC)
Boucher
Brady (PA)
Capuano
Conyers
Davis (AL)
Davis (TN)
Deal (GA)
Gordon (TN)
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Holt
Meeks (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Nunes
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pingree (ME)
Price (GA)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sires
Souder
Stupak
Towns
Velazquez
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Comments on this story
Neale
11-04-09, 10:53 AM |
Resolution condemning Goldstone Report indicting Israel of war crimes passed in US House
The 36 wise men who voted no are truthful,honest and not bribees It seems to be these 36 law makers are not linked to any lobbyist. I congratulate them for acting truthfully and with clean heart. Moreover the 334 guys are the same who usually vote against any peace settlements in the Middle East due to their close connections to lobbyists.
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Unregistered1
11-04-09, 09:06 PM |
US House of represnetatives?
I don’t know why they continue to call it the US House of representatives, it surely should be called the Israel House of representatives.
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Advinty09
12-28-09, 08:27 PM |
Resolution condemning Goldstone Report indicting Israel of war crimes passed in US House
No one can cry Anti semite here, the head Judge of this investigation is a Jew who has a family in Israel.
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antizionist
11-04-09, 10:42 PM |
this is very much expected..it just shows that the strengh of the zionist lobby in the usa..united snakes of assrael
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Anonymous
11-04-09, 11:25 PM |
Sad day for Science
Informed reports are based on facts. Surely? Facts are the elements of truth that have saved us from a earth that is flat and delivered us modern technologies that we arelooking at to read these thoughts.. Is it true that people voted on a document that they had not even read? Why comment of something you know nothing about?
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Muhamed
11-05-09, 12:43 AM |
Goldstone Report
This vote will build angry minds and hearts against jews. If they do not learn from previous persecutions they will be persecuted again.
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` ~galljdaj+
11-05-09, 06:22 AM |
An Inditement of Bribery!! But,...
...but there is no court to carry out the 'trial'!
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Neale
11-05-09, 08:23 AM |
US House of Representatives overwelmingly reject Goldstone Report
I can say one word - So.
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kawahchan
11-05-09, 10:42 AM |
If the world people's eyes are as bright as snow.
(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Foreign Policy & Affairs / Israeli-Palestinian policy reform : Using a rock or egg to defend against Israeli tanks and F-16 attacks, if the world people’s eyes are as bright as snow, how you compare with today’s Israeli occuption in West Bank and Gaza strip to yesterday’s Nazi occupation to Jews ? Most of the US Congress & Senate are being a ballot-slave kowtowing, bow before American Jews' votes.
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secret slave
11-05-09, 02:34 PM |
Goldstone Report should have began in 1948
salaam,
Why choose away from the foundational problem?
feeamanellaah
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Unregistered2
11-05-09, 05:24 PM |
Israel is the USA
No surprise here as all omnipotent USA opinion is we only do right and never any wrongs. Also we will hold the World accountable for its crimes! But the World cannot hold America accountable as only we are capable of judging ourselves-Since we do no wrong what’s there to judge? Amazing thought process that can never be defended.
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Anonymous
11-05-09, 05:33 PM |
And there are nerds believing in these morons
Now the congressmen show their color, yet there are still lots of ignorant foreigners believing in their sweet talk, walk their line, hoping to get true help from these corrupted, elected officials.
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Alethea
11-05-09, 06:37 PM |
Israel is our brother
Thank G-d the US did the right thing for a change - with Obama in office who knew what the liberals in Congress would do.
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persian
11-06-09, 12:10 AM |
u s did the right thing for a change !!!!! alethea
i wish i could live in your world of make belief . like you do. get real. israel is the biggest problem and burden u s has .obama is our only hope for a sensible and fair foriegn policy
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pogi
11-06-09, 03:08 AM |
And the Philippines vote in the UN aginst Israel...
I didnt see any Arab state come to the help of the Philippines in the last few storms.
For a fact i know OFW from the Philippines enjoy in Israel real welcome no one RAPE them or stop them from to pray. .
But, The Philippines Gov. had their head so deep inside the arabs Pwit they care less for the women and man that get abused in arabs states.
I hope one day you do the right thing. like its say: who come to kill you..Kill him 1st.
And the pilipino peole know about the arab in the Philippines...peace lovers.....haha
Shame on You The Republic of the Philipines. do the right thing once and for all.
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