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Yes to Goldstone!

You can't get much more impartial or magisterial than Richard Goldstone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldstone OK, the man may have Zionist sympathies (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1251804583376 ); but he is a great man with a great record... the Israeli government's refusal to accept his report is nothing less than an international disgrace.
Please consider signing this petition to endorse the Goldstone report and its acceptance by the UN Human Rights committee if you have not done so already. I was sent a link to this petition from the No.10 website, asking the
Prime Minister to support the Goldstone report at the UN. I have done so, I hope you now will, too!:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoldstoneReport/
[There is currently a counter-petition to this that has almost three
times as many signatures...:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoToGoldstone/ ]

Comments

ianji said…
I saw something about the anti-Goldstone petition a week or so ago and at that time there didn't seem to be a pro-Goldstone one. So I think it is actually the pro-Goldstone one that is technically the counter petition and part of the reason it has fewer signatures is that it hasn't been up there as long. I wonder why the Number10 petition site does not list the creation date of petitions?

Anyway, I have signed the pro-Goldstone petition, thanks for pointing it out.
20 October 2009 at 10:22
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