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The UN Gaza Report:
A Substantive Critique
An Expanded Text of Ambassador DoreGold’s Presentation During an Exchangewith Justice Richard Goldstone at BrandeisUniversity on November 5, 2009
 Jerusalem Center or Public Afairs
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The UN Gaza Report:
 A Substantive Critique
 An expanded presentation by Ambassador Dore Gold with Lt. Col.(ret.) Jonathan Dahoah Halevi
Brandeis University, November 5, 2009
The UN Gaza Report is the most vicious indictment of the State of Israelbearing the seal of the United Nations since the UN General Assembly adoptedits infamous “Zionism is Racism” resolution in 1975, which it subsequently repealed. A special session of the 47-member UN Human Rights Council calledfor establishing the Fact-Finding Mission that prepared the report through theadoption of Resolution S-9/1 on January 12, 2009. The special session wasconvened at the request of Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. Resolution S-9/1 wasnotably passed with the support of Russia, China, Arab/Islamic and third worldcountries, but not with that of a single Western democracy like Canada and themember states of the European Union.The UN Human Rights Council has a history of clear anti-Israel bias. Indeed, of  the eleven special sessions it has convened since being established in 2006, vehave dealt with Israel. Back in November 2006, former UN Security-General KoAnnan strongly criticized how the new UN Human Rights Council functionedright after its creation, noting its anti-Israel emphasis: “Since the beginning of  their work, they have focused almost entirely on Israel, and there are other crisissituations, like Sudan, where they have not been able to say a word.”
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It was thepresident of the Human Rights Council who established the UN Fact-FindingMission in April 2009 to investigate Israeli military operations in Gaza betweenDecember 27, 2008, and January 18, 2009. He subsequently appointed JusticeRichard Goldstone to head the mission. Its report was published in September.
 Maligning Israeli Society
The language used by the UN Gaza Report – and the gravity of its allegationsabout “deliberate” Israeli attacks on civilians – maligns Israeli society as a whole,for the Israel Defense Forces (the IDF) is a citizen’s army, an army which is madeup of the people of Israel. The IDF has been imbued for generations to avert
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