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Adam Horowitz , Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss wrote this editorial in The Nation about Goldstone backing up his report a little on the 08/09 Gaza seige ..

From the moment the Goldstone Report was published in September 2009, its opponents have worked tirelessly to undermine it .. On April 1 Goldstone, a 72-year-old South African judge, published an op-ed in the Washington Post saying that Israeli army investigations of some 400 incidents during Operation Cast Lead had caused him to disavow a key assertion in the report [re tagetting civilians] .. And yet, the Goldstone Report lives on .. Eminent figures have stepped up to affirm the validity of the original document, including, most notably, the three commissioners who co-authored the report with Goldstone .. In a devastating rebuke published in the Guardian the three commissioners defended the validity of the report and dismissed critics who have sought to capitalize on Goldstone’s essay as cynically misrepresenting the facts .. There has been wide speculation on why Goldstone issued his “reconsideration.” Many have pointed to the unrelenting pressure on him—the ad hominem attacks, the accusations that he abetted terrorists..

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