Cookies For Cancer Camp
Friends of Camp Mak-A-Dream,
Michigan Chapter, is partnering with
the Somerset Collection and 17 area
bakers to present the 11th Annual
Cookies N' Dreams event.
Proceeds will enable children,
teens and young adults with cancer
to attend Camp Mak-A-Dream, a cost-
free camp in Gold Creek, Montana.
There they experience a full range of
recreational activities as well as meet
others who share similar challenges
with cancer.
Cookies N' Dreams will be from
5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at the
Somerset Collection North, 2800 Big
Beaver, Troy.
In addition to samples of gourmet
cookies, there will be entertainment
and children's activities throughout the
evening, celebrity cookie judging and
complimentary food and beverages.
Cost is $60 for adults; children 3-17
pay their age; children younger than 3
are free.
For more details, (248) 723-5575 or
go to www.campdreammich.org .
Prisoner Swap
Jerusalem/JTA
Israel completed
the trade for a videotape of kid-
napped soldier Gilad Shalit by
releasing a 20th female Palestinian
prisoner. The two-minute tape
shows Shalit to be alive and seem-
ingly well.
The Oct. 4 transfer sent the woman
prisoner to the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu watched the tape and
said in a statement that "he believes
the importance of the tape is in put-
ting the responsibility for Gilad's
health and well-being squarely on
Hamas's shoulders."
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Goldstone Debate Deferred
New York/JTA
Palestinian dip-
lomats deferred until March an
effort to advance within the United
Nations system the Goldstone report
charging Israel and Hamas with war
crimes.
The Palestinian Authority repre-
sentation had garnered sufficient
support among the 47 nations on
the U.N. Human Rights Council to
win the council's endorsement, but
failed to win the backing of the
United States and other Western
nations. Without such backing, the
Palestinian resolution stood little
chance of consideration by the U.N.
Security Council, the only U.N. body
capable of making international law.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
—
Netanyahu had threatened to sus-
pend the peace process were the
report to advance out of the Human
Rights Council. Its meeting ended
Oct. 1 in Geneva without a recom-
mendation; its next gathering is in
March.
The Western nations want a reso-
lution that describes the report on
last winter's Gaza war as flawed and
delegates' consideration of its find-
ings of human rights abuses solely
to independent Israeli bodies. U.S.
officials indicated that they would
not allow the report to reach the
Security Council.
Israel refused to cooperate with
the fact-finding mission, headed by
Richard Goldstone, a former South
African judge. Israel's government
said the Human Rights Council,
which commissioned the report, has
an implacable anti-Israel basis and
noted that the fact-finding mission's
mandate drew pre-emptive conclu-
sions, accusing Israel of "violating"
laws.
Goldstone, who has strong ties
to Israel and a number of Jewish
groups, attempted to address such
concerns by expanding the mandate
to consider Hamas abuses during
the war; Israel said the commission's
mandate undermined whatever
report might emerge. It accused
Goldstone, in the final report, of
ignoring Hamas' agenda of wip-
ing out Israel, of not sufficiently
addressing the difficulties of combat
in built-up areas and of drawing
far-reaching conclusions not based
on fact.
A number of human rights and
Jewish groups have acknowledged
such flaws but say the report
includes enough substance that it
deserves Israel's further attention.
For his part, Goldstone defended
the report at an Oct. 1 confer-
ence at the National Press Club in
Washington, saying every possible
measure was taken to ensure that
the report was compiled in an even-
handed and fair manner. Goldstone
maintained that the report did not
look at the justifications for either
side's actions, but rather at the
manner in which military force was
applied.
"We went to great lengths to get
the full story:' Goldstone said, stress-
ing that a public acknowledgment of
both Israeli and Palestinian victims
was necessary and important for the
healing process.
"Without that, there can not be an
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