Finance minister: Israel has right to defend its citizens
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Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz criticized severely a UN report saying Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza.
"Israel will not go like a lamb to the slaughter, it has a right to defend its citizens like the US and Russia. This is an attempt at anti-Semitism – what is permitted to the US in Afghanistan and Russia in Chechnya is prohibited for Israel, and we will not allow this to happen," Steinitz said ahead of a government meeting on the Goldstone report. (Roni Sofer)
