Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities", Reuters reported. The resolution, endorsing a report on the Gaza war commissioned by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, was nonbinding and seen as unlikely to force Israel to investigate the findings. But Israel has responded with outrage to the findings issued in September by a panel led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, seeing the document as an Arab bid to undermine the reputations of its military and political leaders. The resolution, approved by 114 countries followed Goldstone in calling on Israel to undertake within three months credible investigations into the report"s charges. Goldstone"s report blasted both sides in the conflict but was harsher toward Israel which refused to cooperate with the judge"s investigation. -- SPA
