Reply #141: I would be cautious about any report, because of the lack of evidence made available

[LeftishBrit]

Thus, I would not necessarily trust everything in the Goldstone report (due to the fundamental problem of failures to provide evidence on certain crucial events), but I also would not necessarily trust everything in the claimed rebuttals. These rebuttals are opinion pieces, not proofs one way or another.

What I do agree with is the statement:

'Israel made the mistake of not presenting the facts and sources to the public, within the limits of security, to dispel the accusation of war crimes raised by the Goldstone Report.'

As long as sources and facts were NOT made available, any report can be only provisionally accepted - one way or the other - if that. And there will be suspicions of cover-ups, whether these suspicions are valid or not.