No new investigation!

After his Report was adopted by the UN Human Rights Committee, Justice Goldstone suggested that if Israel instituted a thorough State investigation of possible war crimes in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, then that would get Israel "off the hook" and the proposal to take Israelis to the International Criminal Court in the Hague would be dropped. This is about as naieve as his feigned "surprise" that Hamas was not blamed for war crimes in the resolution adopted by the UN HCR in Geneva when referring his Report to the UN in New York.
There is nothing now that Israel can do to prevent the corrosive effects of his Report and certainly a costly and extensive investigation would not have any impact on the majority of UN States who hate Israel. We can only depend on the US to veto the Report in the Security Council.
Even those countries hit by similar acts of terrorism that Israel has suffered all these years, such as Britain, France Pakistan, China, India and now Iran, are so hypocritical that they ignore the commonality of their fate. When they fight against their terrorists do they act with such kid gloves that they would be immune from similar claims of war crimes. But, in fact, after extensive IDF investigations of each and every claim by any soldier or civilian, the IDF found that there were no instances of deliberate war crimes and there is no basis, including Goldstone's flawed and biased Report, for believing otherwise. Another investigation of these events would only be futile and costly, and I hope the Ministers of the Israel Government will conclude the same and will not bow to external pressure to reinvestigate these events.