Al Jazeera says the Goldstone report will go nowhere because the US will convince the EU not to to push on it.
The US will seek to co-opt the EU into watering down the resolution so that its most serious implication – a potential ICC summons for Israel after Security Council action – is headed off.
And lookee here, at the AP: the Palestinian Authority isn’t pushing the report either!
The U.N. Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, had been expected to vote to endorse it in Geneva on Friday.
But the Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the United States, has withdrawn its support for a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza, diplomats in Geneva said Thursday.
U.N. and European diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters, said the Palestinian delegation’s surprise turnaround means any resolution on the report would likely be delayed until next March.
