is unwilling to do so and that's why that two years later of the thirty six investigations that goldstone did in the report only a third of them have been completed by israel and none of them have necessarily been met with accountability for the palestinian victims so what do you think that he was trying to do here by writing this i mean the timing is interesting because as i mentioned they want to take it to the security council to the international criminal court both or israel and hamas i don't know if he was trying to postpone that get them to change their minds or was he trying to. israel perhaps to somehow come back and try to join with the un here so from the very very beginning israel did not want to be a part of this they boycotted it even before the mission began and accused it of being biased even before it began which makes israel's position very very curious and so it wasn't happy that last week on march twenty first in the sixteenth russian of the human rights council the human rights council decided finally to move the goldstone report from geneva to new york and the genera

final report came out with an op ed in the la shinton post this week changing his stance slightly goldstonesaid that how do you know then what he knows now after israel conducted their own investigation the findings of the report may have been skewed differently and that the attacks on civilians by israeli defense forces may not have been deliberate and it sparked a division within the un which is about to send the report to the security council with the aim of referring both israel and hamas to the international criminal court for alleged war crimes perhaps we need to ask first and foremost if this puts all such reports into question especially when all sides don't participate in the findings or discuss with music or erekat human rights attorney activists an adjunct professor at georgetown university thanks so much for being here tonight thank you for having known for starters what goldstone did to this op ed is he didn't completely changed his stance i think a lot of people are misreading a little bit but he did say that he had a few reservations that perhaps it might have been a little d

judge goldstone himself repudiated it. i gave a speech last night the said the un repeated it as well i chaired the subcommittee on the western hemisphere. they are very chagrined at the recognition of palestine by the other countries. it becomes a disincentive for giving the palestinians to sit down and talk. they think they can just get recognized. these are some of the questions i will ask later on. i thank you personally for your good work. >> mr. schmidt from ohio is recognized. >> i just want to focus my remarks on two things. the first is the human rights council. it came into existence in 2006 to supposedly replaced the commission on human rights. it is difficult to see any difference. the council while significantly ignoring human rights abuses repeatedly introduces statements criticizing israel. its only purpose is to denounce our ally in the middle east. i suggest maybe we ought to move all the council. the second is might concerned with the excessive budget of the united nations and the disproportionate share p

judge goldstone himself repudiated it. i gave a speech last night the said the un repeated it as well i chaired the subcommittee on the western hemisphere. they are very chagrined at the recognition of palestine by the other countries. it becomes a disincentive for giving the palestinianto sit down and talk. they think they can just get recognized. these are some of the questions i will ask later on. i thank you personally for your good work. >> mr. schmidt from ohio is recognized. >> i just want to focus my remarks on two things. the first is the human rights council. it came into existence in 2006 to supposedly replaced the commission on human rights. it is difficult to see any difference. the council while significantly ignoring human rights abuses repeatedly introduces statements criticizing israel. its only purpose is to denounce our ally in the middle east. i suggest maybe we ought to move all the council. the second is might concerned with the excessive budget of the united nations and the disproportionate share pai

thousand and eight for nine offensive comes after the accounts author of south africa and richard goldstone backtracked on claims that israel had deliberately targeted civilians and israel refused to cooperate with goldstone's investigation and condemned his report as distorted and biased some fourteen hundred palestinians and thirteen israelis were killed during the three campaign. in kazakhstan residents have flocked to the polling stations to cast their vote in early presidential election the ballot is expected to overwhelmingly reconfirm the leadership of long serving as the by have three candidates are challenging him in the vote but none have publicly opposed his policies more than a thousand international observers are overseeing sunday's vote which has already come under criticism for a perceived lack of fairness. first official results are expected to really say. that america's southwest airlines has grounded nearly eighty planes and canceled three hundred flights nation want the move came after a section of the fuse was ripped open during a flight on friday forcing an emergency la

backtracked on claims that israel had been targeted civilians israel refused to court rate with goldstone's investigation and contempt as reporters distorted and biased some fourteen hundred palestinians and thirteen israelis were killed during the three we can pay. to the ivory coast where red cross reports say the number of those killed in iran clashes in the west of the country in the past few days has reached one thousand fierce fighting continues across the main city of abidjan as forces loyal to the u.n. recognize the. battle those of his rival their own brother both sets of brothers supporters now claim to have control of the country's capital the conflict comes off the blood but refused to step down from the president and see since november the election which united nations last. polls opened in kazakhstan as the country it makes its new president veritas expected to overwhelmingly reconfirm their leadership from serving in the assault on the the three candidates challenging for the ballots but none presently approved his policies with rousing international observers or overseeing s

certainly richard goldstone very bravely spoke up and recently acknowledged that he may have made some mistakes in the report he issued but i think he also made very clear though a lot of that came from the fact that israel wouldn't cooperate with the united nations these this whole approach effectively is a dialogue in a dialogue requires two parties. and i thank you very much for joining us and you know i think a very interesting thing is we often hear so much unease politicians that the u.n. threatens american sovereignty but as you and i just discussed the fact that the u.s. plays such a huge a leadership role in the u.n. really makes all of those arguments completely moot. well. it is having fun with it that thank them either. so let's take a closer look at one of the politicians who's led this charge against the u.n. for years artie's killing for gives us an inside scoop on how this cuban american and current chairman of the foreign affairs committee has come to power. you know how we can make this an even better superfans to dog a defender of democracy this is really let me hear

i wonder if you can tell us how we can try to ensure goldstone is repealed and as the resolution was repealed several years ago and what is the administration doing to combat this terrible bias? what you hear in the frustration here is people say, why should we continue to fund the united nations when time and time again, it comes out against what we think is in the best interest of the united states and our ally, israel? your argument that has credence that we have to stay and fight -- i am sure you understand how frustrating it gets printed when we pay the lion's share and we get spit in the face and our ally gets it in the face. i would appreciate your comment. >> thank you. i appreciate the spirit of your questions. we absolutely have been unequivocal in our condemnation of the substance and conclusions of the goldstone report in which we have been clear on from the outset. we are as i mentioned earlier, are in the process of talking to partners on this about how best in light of both the subsequent actions we are [inaudible] as a result of goldstone and the "the washington post"

. >> merle goldstone, president of north beach. i am here to join other san francisco neighborhoods in support of san francisco beautiful and the appeal of the at&t proposal to install 726 utility boxes on san francisco sidewalks. this proposal should not be allowed to go forward before all affected neighborhoods have a chance to weigh in. i would like to submit our resolution to the board, which lays out in more detail our concern. thank you. experience has shown that surface-mounted utility boxes are a magnet for graffiti, vandalism, and other forms of light. i have spent most -- spent many volunteer hours painting out graffiti on such utility boxes, while the city is spending our precious tax dollars to do the same. the addition of 726 boxes on our side or provide new opportunities for vandalism and make more work for public works staff and concerned citizens who care about how our city looks. we urge the city to follow the department of public works order 175,566, year 2005, which regulates that this equipment replaced undergro

the goldstone report is a lie. the united nations should kill it once and for all and we should be leading the way. thank you, mr. speaker. the chair: the gentleman's time -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. are there further requests for one-minute speeches? under the speaker's announced spoil of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from texas, mr. carter is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. carter: thank you, mr. speaker. these are interesting times we live in and as we sit here this evening, we have a lot of things that are kind of up in the air about what's going to happen to our country and what's going to happen to our ability to fund the government for the rest of our time. unfortunately, we don't have answers to that question. i wish we did, but we don't. but there's some things that are happening that we ought to talk about because the american people are concerned about what's going on. in some ways they are confused. as we sid here today, we are loo

minutes of this gang of christian a boa saw red because and cypher perhaps a harsh second booking goldstone's have finished grouping stay for now take a break. and of course drop a spot at moscow who are held by ruud gullit. the home side dominate throughout this one but failed to convert that into goals and that means more pressure on coach freddie carbon who said he would go if asked after last week's three one shot defeat at. sparta wrangling in the relegation zone four games into the season. was just one guy on monday for the side samba looking for best players point out the campaign as they host and james and i kicks off in a few minutes time. and time in english premier league american businessman stan kroenke here has increased his stake in arsenal and agreed to make a full takeover bid valued for one point two billion dollars meanwhile the apes are still keep their title hopes alive three one win over blackpool narrowing the gap on leaders manchester united to seven thirty seven counties have to trust forty one year old gans lehmann lego after manual on rooney and was injured in the w

goldstone tracked down claims that israel. israel refused to cooperate. some fourteen hundred palestinians and thirteen israelis were killed during the three week campaign. fighting has intensified in ivory coast's main since you about emotional as forces in the world to me when recognizing the. battle days of his arrival in the room but every oratory thought it was her rival troops went for peace sites including the presidential palace at least eight hundred people killed in clashes in the city of which way this week both sets of rather supporters a flaming out of control the country's capital. has refused to step down from the presidency since november's election which the u.n. says he lost. pows have opened in kazakhstan the country of x. its residents there it is expected to overwhelmingly we confirm them so this is a three headed. him that none publicly opposed his plan since. one thousand international observers are overseeing sunday schools because it isn't seen as. preparations for the takeoff or the spacecraft are in full swing that can or cosmod

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if they wanted to destroy people's spirits this goal was certainly know what it shift says alive goldstone and while the terrorists cry out to millions both in moscow and across the globe remains it's something people how long to live with my question also moscow a palestinian engineer is in an israeli jail hour for allegedly being kidnapped by israel's secret service is there a sissy was snatched from a train in ukraine and disappeared for weeks now israel admits it is holding a man accuses him of links with a mass with ukraine is perplexed over why its authorities were alerted as artie's election explains. several months ago get a new car and her husband palestinian engineer did i will see she fled from gaza to her native ukraine they were looking for a peaceful life far from the constant hostilities of the middle east there are even chills to leave behind a very good job with my husband was deputy director of the only power station in the he's a very highly qualified engineer and received an immensely high salary by local standards but their relieved did not last long run evening up wit

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the goldstone report is held high. now richard goldstone has publicly distanced himself from this deeply flawed conclusions of his own report. so, mr. speaker, i ask, where does a nation go to get its reputation back? i hope and urge we can begin to talk to the administration to inform the u.n. and the members of the goldstone commission to reconsider its own report, to block future u.n. actions based on its falsehooded and to expeditiously introduce a measure properly exonerating israel from this damaging libel. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? mr. barrow: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. barrow: mr. speaker, i rise today to express my deep sadness over the passing of four people who perished in a test flight crash in roswell, new mexico, this past saturday. gulf stream is headquartered in my congressional sdrir

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they wanted to destroy people's spirits this goal was certainly know what it shifts since they live goldstone and while a terror threat to millions both in moscow on across the globe remains it's something people have learned to live with my question also moscow. turning international you know when israeli businessman irani if you've got an invitation from georgia's prime minister to an informal dinner the last thing here expected was a prison sentence but meeting was to finalize the settlement over a hundred million dollars owed to him by the georgian government a debt that few so i've been chasing for about fifteen years but archie's carrying as our reports doing deals with georgia can be a risky business. dick moore an israeli businessman one former soviet republic and all lot of potential profit from oil and gas transit sounds like a winning combination which is exactly why ronnie folks came to independent georgia ninety nine one and scored a monopoly on the energy transfer market but the subsequent changes of government saw fixed down for bigger fish and his investments turned into a los

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. >> coming up, lawrence goldstone recount supreme court's announcement of the civil rights act of 1983. is deemed the act unconstitutional and by doing so needed the protection of the fourteenth amendment. >> before we get to the serpentine dealings of the supreme court. many begin with an assertion. they will discover some wonderful formula to explain human behavior. and a field in which truth is quantifiable seems to have more help than one in which basic concepts will be elusive. you can never prove categorically that you are right. i remember when i was in graduate school aid debate raged fiercely. may be social science could be value free. could we take the human value out. and subjective removing sort of in a laboratory. could a historian create the equivalent of newton's laws of motion. and this argument seems to have receded. academia talked itself out. he was not really a scientist at all but throughout a hypothesis which they hopefully had supported and which other social scientists could then hurled bricks that. what does this have to do with us. the people who did not get t

also, jack goldstone, a george mason professor. >> thank you, david.s a pleasure to be here at cato. thank you ev >> thank you for coming. curiosity about events and north africa. why did the dictators who seem to be immovable suddenly find the strength of their regimes fail and their power dissipate. i think peter is absolutely correct, the skills and the power of the deliberate campaign of the nonviolent resistance are the immediate answer, these movements in tunisia and egypt were not spontaneous outpourings , they were the fruit of years of oanizing which had produced numerous student demonstrations and labor strikes but it took years in certain locations for the organization to strike a chord and draw th support that was necessary to strip away from support from the leers i would say i also believe it important leaders in many ways created their own weaknesses and vulnerabilities and was the combination of this vulnerability by the ruling family and a well-organized will fall out campaign of civil resistance that produced a rapid change what were

goldstone in the u.n. is to just as fervently, as strongly as disseminated the goldstone report against israel that they would do the same effort now to retract it. and this is something which is very important and -- [applause] and i think it's something of a strategic value for all of us because we have now allied troops still in iraq, certainly in afghanistan. you may have some nato in libya which are facing the same, same situation. and i can tell you there is no replacement to the united states not only because of your military, technology, strategic might, economic innovations, but also because of the moral leadership that the united states presents. [applause] and there's no other country like the united states which can continue to do that. and i don't see any substitute the that, and with a can-do spirit w the american resilience, with innovation, i know that you are reinventing yourself just like israel do. so this is, even though there are some blips along the way which are in some cases cyclica

. >> thank you, jack goldstone, thank you peter ackerman, we should probably do the event in a few months. i suspect there will be more to say. now let's go upstairs and have a glass of wine. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> live picture from the u.s. institute of peace this morning. they are hosting a discussion on pakistan's security forces. "the associated press" reported recently the presidents administration is negotiating a possible reduction in u.s. intelligence operatives and special operations officers in pakistan as the two countries are trying to mend relations that were badly strained. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we're waiting for the start of this discussion on a look at pakistan's security forces that is taking place this one at the u.s. institute of peace. we are just a coup

. >> thank you, jack goldstone, thank you peter ackerman, we should probably do the event in a few months. i suspect there will be more to say. now let's go upstairs and have a glass of wine. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> in a minute, a discussion about state's rights versus federal authority. also a look at the political unrest in the arab world. >> tomorrow on c-span, president obama travels to northern virginia to hold a town hall meeting to discuss the u.s. federal debt. watch live coverage at 10:15 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> now available, c-span's congressional directory, a complete guide to the first session of the 112th congress. inside new and returning house and senate remembers with contact information, including twitter addresses, district maps, and committee assignments and information on the white house, supreme court justices, and governors. order online at c-span.org/shop. [silence] >> program. but now let me say a little bit about our remarkable panel here today. we have a d

the clerk: senate resolution 138, calling on the united nations to rescind the goldstone report, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i further ask, mr. president, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, that there be no intervening action or debate, that any statements related to this measure be printed in the record at the appropriate place. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to consideration of h. con. res. 33. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h. con. res. 33, a concurrent resolution permitting the use of the rotunda of the capitol for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the holocaust. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid o