The UN secretary general has said he cannot determine if the Israelis and Palestinians have carried out credible and independent investigations into alleged war crimes during the war in Gaza more than a year ago.

Ban Ki-moon told the UN General Assembly in a report released on Thursday that the Israelis were not still looking into the allegations made in a September report by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge and former international war crimes prosecutor.

"A determination can be made on the implementation of the [UN] resolution by Israel and that determination is that Israel has not implemented the UN resolution," Ban said in his report to the 192-member assembly that contains responses provided by Israel.

Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said anyone looking to the UN chief to make a stand on the investigations demanded would have been disappointed.

The much one-sided often applauded Goldstone Report has more than just balance, fairness, equality and open vision in it's document.. It is clearly biased and seeks to prove a point of it's own. For reasons not stated, either.

Many questions of why the clear slant was made so obviously towards the Palestine interests and ignoring the actual visible proofs of Hamas' actions -that were by international-law also ILLEGAL , and these illegal acts were not addressed by their Palestinian promoters [ of course ] shows the report to be too biased - to be taken and believed - prejudiced obviously toward their so-called-innocensent friends.

Yet - - There was much human-shielding, in proven photos,[ not photo-fixed or shopped]. There were many rocket firings with more extensive ranges into other territories, thus gradual increasing their dangerous scope. The dangers were obvious and enlarging.

There was ignoring the visible evidences shown that Hamas used vulnerable locations from which to launch their rockets and firings. There is actually much proof offered that has conveniently been ignored, deliberately to prove only one side WRONG and the other side as if only " VICTIM therefore must be innocent",

as if...as if...that were actual, factual or true.

The lack of a balanced investigation was notable tho ignored by those who prefer this style of documentation.

Then there were and is lots of sentimental and bloody [sensationalistic too ] image-building of those who hav- less against anyone who has-more, including USA or other nation-states as well.

Then there is lots of repeated loud PR and promotion of Palestine's rights as if rights were all so easily defined and demanded. Demands backed by rockets.

That there is more than only " 2 " sides to every story or series of events is ignored. So Easily.

That one of the signers of this document by Goldstone was also a paid donor to a big advertisement against one side and pro the other, before taking on that position is ignored. Why ? Does that person come in open unprejudiced manner to investigate and declare their views ? Hardly.

That many rebels and 'righteous' rescuers will not want to hear more than nly what they want-to-know - in order to ally with what is visibly the weaker of [only] 2 forces, without wanting knowledge or legitimate information that does not support THEIR OWN CHOSEN SIDE view.

How can they feel heroic or be pretend martyrs too if they are not extreme and limited in their views and beliefs ? Only the poor have the moral authority to fight, kill, demand MORE from anyone anywhere anytime. Clearly, it is so.

That polarization is most convenient, and extreme, and

detrimental to any peace, or agreeements, or discussion and that deliberate division is again conveniently ignored.

How can any honest person agree with a very very lengthy report that is hardly read thru by non-experts except for the parts that fit their pre-agreed-upon opinions ?

Until some clarification is made about correcting, contesting, re-addressing the distortions in the Goldstone report, how can it be taken, "as is" as

"the whole truth" in any way? It is clearly not so.

Let us not fall into sticky one-sided beliefs and try to pretend to be easy heroes or martyrs - just because in this USA or LA we can easily & safely hold up signs, chant, write articles and safely, oh so safely, sit in our warm places accusing those elsewhere who live in danger... in many lands ...not just those 2 unfairly and inaccurately described in the Goldstone Report.

How to be fair and investigate what has and does happen repeatedly - on both side of the divide, of course.

...you always find them together, the shysters washing the hands of the butchers. But with words, many words meaning nothing in the light of the raw evidence.

Wanton extermination and weapons testing on non combatants in deliberate acts of mass murder.

But they can pay for shysters to write word hash out of sarcasm and nothing more.

pathetic evil creatures.

"unfairly and inaccurately described in the Goldstone Report. "

and we know this because?

because it puts a bad light on genocide?