JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man confessed to running over and stabbing eight Israelis to death in Tel Aviv. Muhammad Zofan, 21, of Kalkilya, confessed Sunday in Tel Aviv District Court to the attack last Aug. 29 near the the Oman 17 nightclub. Zofan carjacked...
How you perceive South African Judge Richard Goldstone's recent opinion piece in the Washington Post probably depends on who you see when you look in the mirror.If you're a closed-minded, "defend Israel and the Israeli government no matter what" sort,...
With Richard Goldstone himself admitting that the infamous Goldstone Report was critically flawed, this is the best opportunity we have had in two years to bring to light the misconceptions of Operation Cast Lead.In his April 2 op-ed in The Washington...
By Leslie Susser, JTA JERUSALEM
• Published April 13, 2011
Despite Israel's rejection of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war a year-and-a-half ago, the international criticism it engendered has led the Israel Defense Forces to make a number of significant changes in policy and doctrine. And they'll stay even...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA NEW YORK
• Published April 6, 2011
Richard Goldstone's original U.N. report on the Gaza war of 2008-09 landed like a bombshell in the PR war over Israel, damaging Israel's reputation around the world with its finding that Israel potentially committed war crimes and crimes against humanity...
By Ron Kampeas and Marcy Oster, JTA
• Published April 4, 2011
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would launch an international campaign to cancel the Goldstone Report after its author, ex-South African Judge Richard Goldstone, wrote in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that Israel did not...