Yisrael Hasson of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is initiating a special committee meeting following reports of involvement by extreme leftist organizations in formulating the Goldstone report, which charges Israel with war crimes in the execution of the Cast Lead counter-terror campaign in Gaza last winter. The Kadima lawmaker says the state is the body that should have acted as the Im Tirtzu non-governmental organization did to uncover the leftist connection.
Interviewed by Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service, Hasson said, "It can't be that the prime minister defines the report as a strategic threat and now it becomes clear that it came from home."