re: #606 JanglerNPL

Sorry if this has been mentioned before: White House will block UN action against Israel.

Maybe - there was an update

UPDATE: Now the White House is saying the official “misspoke.” Key grafs from the updated brief:

Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, called JTA later to say the official “misspoke” and that administration policy on the Goldstone report remains as articulated last week by Susan Rice, the U.N. ambassador.

Rice described the UNHRC mandate as “unbalanced, one sided and basically unacceptable. We have very serious concerns about many of the recommendations in the report. We will expect and believe that the appropriate venue for this report to be considered is the Human Rights Council and that is our strong view.”

She did not mention what the United States would do were the report to be referred to the ICC.