Don’t do it Peter, don’t even think about supporting this resolution.

Speaking for me only.

As many of you may know, the United Nations issued a fact finding report on the 22-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On April 3, 2009, the President of the Human Rights Council established the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict with the mandate “to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law that might have been committed at any time in the context of the military operations that were conducted in Gaza during the period from December 28 2008 and January 18, 2009.” Justice Richard Goldstone, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, was chosen to head the mission.

The report, according to Human Rights Watch, “determined that both Israel and Hamas had committed serious violations of the laws of war during the 22-day conflict last December and January, some amounting to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.”