Quietly burying the Goldstone Report

"I don't know if I would accept your characterization of pressuring," State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said Monday night when asked about the reports, which have stirred a row in the Palestinian Authority. "We had serious concerns with the recommendations and some of the allegations."

At least one Hamas legislator is calling for Mahmoud Abbas to resign over this fiasco.

Meanwhile, it seems the Israeli strategy is to use the six-month delay to quietly bury the report. The Israeli foreign ministry has ordered its spokesman not to discuss the report, according to Ha'aretz. If the Israeli government can lower the report's profile, maybe it won't generate much furor when the U.N. Human Rights Council considers it again in six months.

That seems to be the emerging consensus in the U.S., too. Kelly, the State Department spokesman, said the department is focused on "the ultimate goal... address[ing] the root causes" of the Gaza war. And groups like J Street advocate the same "look forward, not backward" approach. J Street's official response to the report says that "the past cannot be changed by commissions," and urges the U.S. to "focus on forging a better future."