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Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who led the U.N. Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission into the 2009 Gaza war, whose controversial report was endorsed by the council last week, explains his mission and motivation in an Op-Ed piece in the Jerusalem Post. The report, which cited evidence of Israeli and Hamas "war crimes," was […]

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius has details on an interesting story: "Iran’s supply of low-enriched uranium — the potential feedstock for nuclear bombs — appears to have certain ‘impurities’ that ‘could cause centrifuges to fail’ if the Iranians try to boost it to weapons grade." Eric Alterman waxes rhapsodic over the upcoming J Street conference […]