TEL AVIV, September 30, 2009 (WAFA)- The Israeli  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to present a proposal Thursday, to open an investigative commission to probe the findings of the Goldstone Commission report on Gaza, daily  Haaretz said.

The report, which accuses both Israel of war crimes during the Israel army three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip this January, was formally presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council Tuesday.

Top Israeli officials have stated that the report is full of lies and distortions which demand an examination of how Goldstone arrived at his conclusions, Haaretz mentioned.

It noted that the sources at  Israeli Army Minister Ehud Barak's bureau on Wednesday denied reports Barak had called for setting up an investigative committee into the Goldstone report, but confirmed that Barak asked former Israel Chief Justice Aharon Barak to support efforts to challenge the UN report's findings.

United Kingdom court yesterday deferred until further notice an appeal by local pro-Palestinian groups to issue an arrest warrant against Barak for his conduct as Defense Minister during Cast Lead.

Earlier, an top  Israeli educator Prof. Uriel Reichman said to Haaretz yesterday  “if Israel does not investigate its most recent military operation in Gaza, it will be forced to do so by the international community”.

Prof. Uriel Reichman, president of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, said, 'a commission headed by a Supreme Court justice must immediately be established to examine Operation Cast Lead. And although the [Goldstone] report is very much not fair and borders on incitement, it also raises questions regarding our actions in Gaza.'

Reichman called for a probe in a joint statement with former education minister Amnon Rubinstein, a fellow jurist who is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Center.

The situation requires balance between protecting our existence and the humanist heritage of our people. The harsh accusations of the Goldstone report being disseminated worldwide cannot be ignored. We must investigate Israel's conduct in Operation Cast Lead to stand guard over the combat morality of the Israeli army, he said.

Reichman said one unfair conclusion of the report is that Israel planned to harm innocent civilians.'Israel is presented as a murderous country. Without saying so out rightly”. Adding that “ [the report] describes Israel as an apartheid state. It says the Israeli justice system is unreliable in overseeing the military and in its attitude toward the Arab minority. It determines that the Arab minority lacks freedom of expression and protest”.

'The most infuriating thing is the invalidation of the legal system. After the Israeli legal system has been attacked from within for interfering too much, the Goldstone report now argues that it does not interfere enough,' the statement concluded.