It took a long time, but the ludicrous accusation of Richard Goldstone that Israel intentionally killed Palestinian civilians is off the table now. Hamas had not conducted any internal investigations of its own but Israel had devoted considerable resources in looking into more than 400 accusations of misconduct, and in several cases lashed out severe punishments for misbehavior. “If I had known then what I know now,” he wrote, “the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.” Further reading here.
Update: Melanie Phillips goes a step further. Apparently Goldstone thought Hamas would investigate it’s own war crimes, the same as Israel has done. He writes: “It was my hope, even if unrealistic, that Hamas would do so, especially if Israel conducted its own investigations. At minimum I hoped that in the face of a clear finding that its members were committing serious war crimes, Hamas would curtail its attacks. Sadly, that has not been the case. Hundreds more rockets and mortar rounds have been directed at civilian targets in southern Israel….”
