Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev. Photo: AJN file

AHRON SHAPIRO

THE United Nations’ Goldstone Commission Report on the Gaza war used information that was gathered in a manner of a “Stalinist show trial”, according to Mark Regev, the Australian-born spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Speaking to The AJN during a visit to Melbourne last week, Regev said the Goldstone Report was a blatantly biased document that was “born in sin”.

Regev outlined the challenges facing the Netanyahu government in both foreign and domestic affairs.

On the issue of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Regev declined to comment whether Netanyahu had a specific red line in Iran’s nuclear program that would require Israel to take action, instead emphasising that Israel hoped the current diplomatic process would bear fruit.

“If we see a diplomatic process that works, no-one will be more thankful than Israel and, of course, our Arab neighbours,” he said.
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Richard Goldstone (UN Photo)

WASHINGTON - The United Nations Security Council will meet to discuss a request for an emergency session on the Goldstone Commission report.
The meeting next Wednesday comes at the request of Libya, the lone Arab member of the 15-nation council, according to reports.

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RONI SOFER

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening harshly criticised the conclusions of a United Nations committee which probed the Israel Defense Forces’ operation in Gaza and accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes.

“The Goldstone Report is a field court-marital, and its findings were prewritten,” Netanyahu said in a closed forum. “This is a prize for terror. The report makes it difficult for democracies to fight terror.”

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