The report, released Jan. 31, blamed the Israeli Defence Forces for the incident, but also found the Israeli military refused to provide documents other than a summary of its own internal investigation, "which lacked sufficient detail to explore certain issues to their fullest extent." The report said the UN also refused to provide documents requested for the investigation.
Hmmm. I see. At the time, PM "Israel's response is Measured" Harper said this:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said shortly after the attack that he did not believe Israel deliberately targeted the UN post, but would ask Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "for his full co-operation in getting to the bottom of this."
Clearly, Harper hasn't pushed all that hard. In fact, I'd wager that he's hoping that this issue will quietly go away. Of course, when the soldier in question was reporting some not so pleasant things about Israel's actions in Lebanon:
"Obviously they were unhappy with what they were observing. Maybe that post was in the way as well," she said. "I know my husband was reporting war crimes. And I guess they don't want to deal with that."
Uh huh.
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