[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5445]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                RECONSIDERATION OF THE GOLDSTONE REPORT

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, the U.N. commissioned its infamous Goldstone 
Report following the 2008-2009 war between Hamas in Gaza and the State 
of Israel, a war which grew out of Hamas's ongoing rocket attacks, well 
over 4,000, intended to terrorize communities in southern Israel. This 
report alleged the sickening conclusion that Israel deliberately 
targeted civilians as a matter of policy, an accusation grossly 
offensive to me as an American, and to the only nation in the Middle 
East whose freedoms and commitment to humanitarian values we all 
recognize and admire as mirroring our own.
  The Goldstone Report has been held high by those in the international 
community seeking to delegitimize the State of Israel's very own 
existence. Now Richard Goldstone has publicly distanced himself from 
the deeply flawed conclusions of his own report.
  So, Mr. Speaker, I ask: Where does a nation go to get its reputation 
back?
  I hope and urge that we can begin to talk to the administration to 
inform the U.N. and the members of the Goldstone Commission to 
reconsider its own report, to block U.N. actions based on its 
falsehoods, and to expeditiously introduce a measure properly 
exonerating Israel from this damaging libel.

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