Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Holes continue to be poked in the UN Human Rights Council sponsored Goldstone Report. What's remarkable is that the criticisms go far beyond simply whining about the unfairness of it all, but go directly to the facts of the matters in questions to the very use the report makes of International Law. Let's have some links:
Carl uses video to reveal some of the absurdity of it all: The Goldstone Commission on human shields: Lies and damned lies
CAMERA picks apart the witness testimony: Goldstone Report Endorses Unreliable Witnesses
Melanie Phillips writes: The Moral Inversion of Richard Goldstone
Elder of Ziyon notes that Goldstone relied heavily, more heavily than they relied on Human Rights Watch, on a Hamas-run NGO, TAWTHEQ. I kid you not: Goldstone Commission problems, part 8
Honest Reporting has a concise resource: The Goldstone Report: Rewarding Palestinian Terror
Related, note this entry from Soccer Dad with British Colonel Richard Kemp commenting on the IDF's conduct.
And, in what has to be one of the more pathetic moments of the year so far, Nicole Goldstone, Richard Goldstone's daughter, seeks to assure us: 'My father is a Zionist, loves Israel'
Update: Elder of Ziyon: Goldstone report inaccuracies part 9: Gaza Police
Palestinian Media Watch throws open the archives from the war: Palestinian witnesses: Hamas used civilians as human shields in Gaza war
Israel Behind the News presents Comments on B'Tselem's Civilian Casualty Estimates in Operation Cast Lead by Professor Elihu D Richter MD MPH and Dr. Yael Stein MD [DOC File]
NGO Monitor: Goldstone Report: 575 pages of NGO "cut and paste"
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The US should withhold its veto when the time comes to slap sanctions on Israel.
Never mind the loony nutcases like Marty Federman and the JVP crowd, Jony Judt, Norman Finkelstein, et al.
I wonder how much outrage we'll hear from Jewish O-bots who are very vocal about their claims of supporting Israel, you know, the ones who wear social justice and peace on their shirtsleeves: Alan Solomont, Leonard Fein, Moshe Waldoks, Michael Felsen, Michael Lerner -- the whole pack of fools in Peace Now & and Brit Tzedek.
We even prepared a detailed rebuttal of Goldstone's report at http://samsonblinded.org/blog/goldstone-report-the-rebuttal.htm but really, who cares? Anti-Semites of the world have already jumped on the report and no amount of contrary evidence would make them to change their minds.