IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 232 
Recognizing the recent admission by Richard Goldstone of the deeply flawed 
conclusions in his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council 
and urging the Administration to take steps to reverse the damage 
done by the Goldstone Report. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2011 
Mr. DOLD (for himself and Mr. PETERS) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the recent admission by Richard Goldstone of 
the deeply flawed conclusions in his report to the United 
Nations Human Rights Council and urging the Adminis-
tration to take steps to reverse the damage done by 
the Goldstone Report. 
Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Council commis-
sioned its ‘‘fact-finding’’ Goldstone Report following the 
three-week, 2008 to 2009 war between Hamas in Gaza 
and the State of Israel; 
Whereas this war grew out of Hamas’ ongoing, deliberate at-
tacks, intended to terrorize the communities and the 
men, women, and children of southern Israel; 
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•HRES 232 IH 
Whereas 4,246 rockets and 4,180 mortar rounds were fired 
into the State of Israel from Gaza, from 2001 to 2008; 
Whereas the Goldstone Report alleged that the State of Israel 
deliberately targeted civilians as a matter of policy in its 
war with Hamas; 
Whereas the Goldstone Report accused Israel of committing 
war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity; 
Whereas the Goldstone Report has been employed as a key 
source by those in the international community in an on-
going effort to isolate the State of Israel and delegitimize 
its very existence; 
Whereas the United States repudiated the Goldstone Report 
as ‘‘deeply flawed’’ when it first emerged; 
Whereas Richard Goldstone served as the principal author of 
the Goldstone Report; 
Whereas Richard Goldstone has now backed off from the 
Goldstone Report’s conclusion that Israel intentionally 
targeted civilians as a matter of policy in its war with 
Hamas; 
Whereas Richard Goldstone now states that, ‘‘civilians were 
not intentionally targeted [by Israel] as a matter of pol-
icy’’; 
Whereas Richard Goldstone now states that, ‘‘If I had known 
then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have 
been a much different document’’; 
Whereas Richard Goldstone now states that it was the 
Hamas’ rockets that were ‘‘purposely and indiscrimi-
nately aimed at civilian targets’’; 
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•HRES 232 IH 
Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Council has dem-
onstrated a history of extreme bias against the State of 
Israel; 
Whereas in the first 100 days of 2011, over 175 rockets and 
mortars have been fired from Gaza into the State of 
Israel; 
Whereas in 2010, 238 rockets and mortars were fired from 
Gaza into the State of Israel; 
Whereas, on April 7, 2011, a missile fired from Gaza struck 
a school bus of Israeli children; 
Whereas the State of Israel has, as do all sovereign nations 
in the world, the right to defend itself against terror at-
tacks on its citizens; 
Whereas the Goldstone Report unfairly generated great harm 
to Israel’s reputation, and can potentially continue to 
harm Israel and its citizens in the future; and 
Whereas the United States must exhibit leadership in begin-
ning to reverse the damage done by the Goldstone Re-
port: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the United States should— 
(1) work to inform members of the United Na-
tions General Assembly of Judge Goldstone’s recon-
sideration of his own report and admission of its 
deeply flawed and inaccurate conclusion; 
(2) block future United Nations actions pre-
mised on the falsehoods in the Goldstone Report; 
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