Moqawama.org Special: What happened in "Israel´s" Cabinet during discussing the Goldstone Report?

If the report has enmeshed "Israel" and its rulers in a crisis, the resistance's www.moqawama.org obtained information from well informed source in France telling us about the debate that took place in the "Israeli" Cabinet on the issue. This information describes the way pressure was exerted on the Palestinian Authority to withdraw the report from the Human Rights Council in the United Nations.

In this regard and according to well-informed French sources the resistance website met in Paris, a sharp confrontation apparently took place inside the "Israeli" Cabinet following the release of the Goldstone report. The two sides of the confrontation were "Israeli" War Minister Ehud Barak at one end and the rest of the Cabinet at the other, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to the mentioned French sources, the debate began when Netanyahu gave an explanation of the situation after this report, favoring cooperation, "at minimum," to save the face of "Israel".

This prompted Ehud Barak to intervene and declare his strong opposition to any cooperation that exposes the "Israeli" military to the risk of international accountability.

The source explained to us the proceedings of that debate:

Netanyahu: I think we have to deal wisely with the report and not escalate the situation in order to preserve our international reputation.

Ehud Barak: You are here by the virtue of "Israel's" army and not the Jewish voter. You are wrong if you believe otherwise.

Netanyahu: But we have to deal with the subject with some diplomacy at minimum to preserve "Israel's" reputation.

Barak: Dealing with the report ‘at minimum' signifies handing over between seventy to eighty "Israeli" military officers and officials to international accountability, and placing them at the mercy of legal trailing. The army will not accept this situation. This will place the country for the first time before a confidence crisis between the military and politicians. Can you here in the Cabinet bear the consequences of a clash between the army and politicians in this country. I do not think so.

Netanyahu: No one in this Council is ready to engage in this risk, but what is the political alternative?

Barak: Support powers in the West must be activated and the United States prompted to act, to dissipate and squander the resolution in international forums. We also have to ask the U.S. to pressure Mahmoud Abbas' Authority into cooperation in the matter.

The French source added that the entire Cabinet Ministry bowed to Barak's wishes, and took a unanimous decision to contact the US and pro-"Israel" lobbies in Europe to scatter and squander the report. A decision was also made to ask the U.S. to exert pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in order to withdraw the report before its submission to the HRC at the UN.