Saturday, December 12, 2009
The actual details and formal report aren't out yet, but will be very interesting to see. Don't expect that it will be good enough -- nothing will be good enough for the haters, but I'm talking about good enough for those professing to be "lovers of Israel" who simply, according to them, wanted an accounting. It won't be good enough because in reality, many of them didn't actually want a fair accounting, what they wanted was a confession...because they 'know' Israel was wrong, because they want to believe it, they want to think that Israel is evil, they want to believe the IDF committed crimes. Why?
I suppose on one level it's comforting. After all, if it's you, or your government that did something wrong, you have some level of control over that -- but if it turns out that the IDF did actually keep its purity of arms, that any crimes committed were, in fact, aberrations rather than a result of policy or callousness, if Israel really did all it could in the face of a difficult Catch-22 and still faces the unwinnable scenario and international wave of hate that Goldstone fronts for...well then what? Suddenly the world is out of control and the best you can do is hang on tight and keep your head above water.
IDF: 30 'war crimes' cases 'baseless'
The IDF has completed a review of the 36 "most serious" cases of alleged war crimes as cited by Judge Richard Goldstone in his damning report on Operation Cast Lead, and concluded that 30 of them are "baseless accusations," The Jerusalem Post has learned. The other six were found to relate to genuine instances, where operational errors and mistakes were involved.
The IDF is currently finalizing a report in response to the allegations leveled by the Goldstone mission on behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Council. It is expected to becompleted and submitted to Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi for review in the coming weeks. The army has yet to decide what it will do with the report and whether it will be released to the public.
The IDF has, however, already launched a diplomatic campaign to present some of the results of its probe.
On Wednesday, Military Advocate-General Brig.-Gen. Avihai Mandelblit met in New York with representatives of 10 different countries, as well as with officials from the UN secretariat and the Obama administration, to present some of Israel's findings...
[h/t: Seva]
Baseless accusations in Goldstone Report? Who says? Habitual liar Gabi-The-IDF-Does-Not-Use-White-Phosphorus-Ashkenazi? Come on!
"Habitual liar Gabi-The-IDF-Does-Not-Use-White-Phosphorus-Ashkenazi?"
A word salad is a mixture of random words that appears to be meaningful but signifies nothing. A Word salad is a symptom of a nervous system disorder, namely, schizophrenia, which produces language that is not meaningful or even grammatical. "Salad" indicates that the words are tossed together randomly.
Paul Sinclair, the only liar I know of is the "progressive", socialist scum you call the BBC.
Like the bomber of Pan Am 103 has weeks to live???
Remember the VICTIMS of Pan AM 103.
Show COMPASSION for the VICTIMS of Pan Am 103.
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