[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE GOLDSTONE REPORT IS A LIE

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, about a year ago, the United Nations passed 
the infamous Goldstone Report. Thankfully, this Congress on the floor 
of the House had a debate, and we rejected the Goldstone Report.
  Well, guess what happened last week? Judge Goldstone said that his 
report was erroneous. What did the Goldstone Report say? The Goldstone 
Report said that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza.
  That has now been proven not to be true. Of course, the people in the 
U.N. who bash Israel all the time will continue to pretend that Judge 
Goldstone didn't repudiate his own report, but the fact of the matter 
is he did.
  The truth is that it is Hamas, the terrorist group, that took over 
the Gaza Strip. They target Israeli civilians all the time. Israel 
tries to protect its own citizens in going and destroying the terrorist 
nests, but the terrorists of Hamas build their nests and their rockets 
and their munitions in heavily populated areas. So, if civilians die, 
it is their fault.
  The Goldstone Report is a lie. The United Nations should kill it once 
and for all, and we should be leading the way.

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