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...Human Rights Council chooses to act on the Goldstone report, the easiest choice for Netanyahu would be to follow the advice of his key Western allies and appoint an independent Israeli panel of jurists to re-examine the events of the Gaza war. But Netanyahu and most Israelis - who feel that, yet again, they are being unjustly singled out by the U.N. - are in no mood to let that happen...
...This week, top Israeli leaders including Barak, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres have worked the phones, hoping to convince world leaders that giving credence to the Goldstone report would "handcuff" and "cripple" the West in its war on terrorism. Adopting the Goldstone report, Barak warned, might pave the way for U.S. troops and their Western allies to be held liable for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Watch a video on smuggling in the Gaza tunnels...
...That discussion will begin in earnest on Thursday, when the Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to consider whether to bury the report in the international body's labyrinthine archives, as Israel would prefer, or forward it for action by the Security Council. The latter course would trigger a process in which Israel and Hamas are both given six months to carry out their own independent investigations into the charges raised by the Goldstone report. If they fail to do so, the issue could be referred for prosecution by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, which could result...
...Whatever happens to the Goldstone report, Israeli officials are under a growing shadow of possible prosecution by advocacy groups using the courts in a number of Western countries to press for legal action over the Gaza war - so much so that some senior Israeli figures have reportedly had to factor the prospect of facing arrest into their travel plans. Some reports suggest that nearly 1,000 such lawsuits are pending, making it dangerous for prominent Israelis to travel abroad. Two weeks ago, Barak narrowly avoided arrest on a trip to the U.K. after a court ruled that he was protected...
...White House had been swayed by Israel's position that taking the Goldstone report forward could pose an obstacle to reviving the peace process. Netanyahu, who assured the Knesset that no Israeli soldiers would ever be prosecuted for war crimes, anywhere, told U.S. officials that with the Goldstone report looming over him, it will be nearly impossible to sell his right-wing government on the idea of making concessions to the Palestinians...