Monday, January 3, 2011
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
A Case Study in the Goldstone Report's Fundamental Dishonesty - '...When you contrast that with the panel's handling of the attack on the policemen, the methodology becomes clear: when Palestinians claim someone is a civilian, they are believed. But when Palestinians claim someone is a combatant, they are disbelieved. In short, Palestinians are always innocent victims, no matter what. It's hard to imagine a more dishonest methodology than that. This same axiom led Goldstone to conclude that fewer than 300 of the Palestinians killed were combatants, even though Hamas's own interior minister recently admitted that Israel's figure, of about 700 combatants, was in fact accurate...'
