Israel Matzav: Howard Berman revises his resolution

Howard Berman revises his resolution

Representative Howard Berman (D-Cal) has revised his resolution calling on the White House to prevent the Goldstone Commission report from being used to condemn Israel in the Security Council or from being referred to the International Criminal Court. A vote on the resolution is due to take place on Tuesday.

There are two changes. The first one is designed to concede that Judge Goldstone attempted to change his commission's mandate to a more neutral one, but nevertheless continues to insist that no change in the mandate was legally made (which is true).

The second change is a doozer. Here's the full paragraph with the changes highlighted in bold:

(3) calls on the President and the Secretary of State to continue to strongly and unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the `Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ in multilateral fora, including through leading opposition to any United Nations General Assembly resolution and through vetoing, if necessary, any United Nations Security Council resolution that endorses the contents of this report, seeks to act upon the recommendations contained in this report, or calls on any other international body to take further action regarding this report.

Do you have the impression that given the opportunity, the Obama administration just might do something other than what Berman has in mind, and that Berman knows it?

Just curious....

Israel Matzav: Howard Berman revises his resolution