'I sincerely believed that because of my own record and the terms of the mission's mandate we would receive the cooperation of the Israeli government. Its refusal to cooperate was a grave error. My plea for cooperation was repeated before and during the investigation and it sits, plain as day, in the appendices of the Gaza report..'

There can be little doubt in the mind of any reasonable person, that the deliberate failure of the Israeli government to co-operate in the UN investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza, indicates its guilt in the horrific killing of 320 children, in December and January last.

It is clear from the international media in recent days, including hundreds of pro-Israel websites, that Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry has gone into overdrive in an attempt at damage limitation to try to discredit the independent report from a respected South African judge. 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent in an advertising campaign to discredit the allegations of deliberate civilian killings by the IDF under the command of Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak. Notwithstanding that pressure, the UN has voted to adopt the report for deliberation by the Security Council.

If Americans, the British, the EU, Australia, Canada and other democracies worldwide, wish to learn the truth as to who was killed in Gaza, and why, then they should make it plain to President Obama that this is far too an important matter for the US to use its veto to protect any person alleged guilty of war crimes

The international community are unlikely to forgive or forget anyone or any state that protects alleged war criminals from the due process of law.

That would turn democracy upon its head.