{"id":10957,"date":"2009-09-23T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2009-09-23T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:43:02","slug":"jta-u-s-pledges-to-quash-goldstone-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10957","title":{"rendered":"JTA: U.S. pledges to quash Goldstone recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON (JTA)<\/strong> &#8212; The Obama administration will not allow the Goldstone report recommendations on Israel&#8217;s conduct in the Gaza war to reach the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>A top White House official told Jewish organizational leaders in an off-the-record phone call Wednesday that the U.S. strategy was to &#8220;quickly&#8221;  bring the report &#8212; commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council and carried  out by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone &#8212; to its &#8220;natural  conclusion&#8221; within the Human Rights Council and not to allow it to go further,  Jewish participants in the call told JTA.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is ready to use the U.S. veto at the U.N. Security  Council to deal with any other &#8220;difficulties&#8221; arising out of the report, the  White House official said Wednesday. The administration also has made clear to  the Palestinian Authority that Washington is not pleased with a P.A. petition to  bring the report&#8217;s allegations against Israel to the International Criminal  Court.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the Obama administration&#8217;s view was that the report was  flawed from its conception because the mandate presumed a priori that Israel had  violated war crimes and that the mandate ignored Hamas&#8217; role in prompting the  war through its rocket fire into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>For updates on this story, visit JTA&#8217;s politics blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/politics\/\">Capital  J<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) &#8212; The Obama administration will not allow the Goldstone report recommendations on Israel&#8217;s conduct in the Gaza war to reach the International Criminal Court. A top White House official told Jewish organizational leaders in an off-the-record phone call &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2QJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}