Yesterday, 2 October 2009, the Palestinian leadership -- under heavy international pressure lead by the United States -- deferred the draft proposal at the Human Rights Council endorsing all the

Palestinians and others are still absorbing and thinking through the implications of the Palestinian Authority's decision to withdraw its support for the Goldstone report on Israel's assault on Gaza last

Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority's decision to delay action regarding the UN Fact-Finding Mission's report, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, which investigated the

For its part, the Palestinian community in Switzerland strongly denounced the PA irresponsible position against Goldstone’s report, saying that this position represented a political and moral decline and contradicted the

The Palestinian Authority (PA) decision to defer until March a vote on the “Goldstone report” at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva constitutes a huge betrayal of Palestinian

In a press release, the factions expressed their rejection of all misleading and contradictory reasons given by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to justify its position toward the report.

Younis belied the PA allegations that it wanted to create consensus on the report, saying there was international consensus on the report which was endorsed by 33 countries out of

The recent release of the UN study headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone is a watershed of sorts in the diplomatic history of Israel.

In a letter to President Barak Obama on Wednesday, Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, President of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, called on Obama to uphold the rule of law and

In substantive respects the Goldstone report adds nothing new. Its main contribution is to confirm widely reported and analyzed Israeli military practices during the Gaza war.