An interview with Judge Richard Goldstone by Bill Moyers of pbs (Public Broadcasting Service).
He says:
Well, certainly. You know, one thing one can't say about the Israel Defense Forces is that they make too many mistakes. They're very, a sophisticated army. And if they attack a mosque or attack a factory, and over 200 factories were bombed, there's just no basis to ascribe that to error. That must be intentional.and later:
I think it's difficult to deal equally with a state party, with a sophisticated army, with the sort of army Israel has, with an air force and a navy, and the most sophisticated weapons that are not only in the arsenal of Israel, but manufactured and exported by Israel, on the one hand, with Hamas using really improvised, imprecise armaments. So it's difficult to equate their power. But that having been said, one has to look at the actions of each. And one has to judge the criminality, or the alleged criminality, of each.They chose 36 incidents to investigate. Israel did not cooperate at all. This interview explains some of the objections to his report.
Read it for yourself (575 pages!) from http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/docs/UNFFMGC_Report.pdf
Yes, the Human Rights Council show bias. But Goldstone in his interview with Bill Moyers discusses that. He is not the kind of man to operate in a biased environment.
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