New York – Judge Richard Goldstone’s recent acknowledgement that “civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy” by Israel during Operation Cast Lead could be a game changer — if Goldstone continues to do the right thing.
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Goldstone’s reassessment of the conclusions reached in the Goldstone Report pulls the rug out from under those who are currently using the Goldstone Report as a centerpiece of their efforts to accuse Israel of war crimes, to delegitimize the Jewish state in the court of public opinion, to impose boycotts and to suggest a moral equivalence between the democratic nation of Israel and the terrorist-group-cum-“government” of Hamas.
Citing new evidence and reports, the carefully selected chairman of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict — picked by the U.N. precisely because he was a Jewish international lawyer of some repute who would lend credibility to the widely discredited U.N. Human Rights Council — has now declared in a Washington Post opinion article that “if I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document.”
Based on what we know today — as a result of numerous credible investigations by NGOs, individual experts, the media, the Israeli military, even a United Nations task force — there is absolutely no justification for the International Criminal Court or any other organization opening an investigation against Israel or imposing sanctions on the Jewish state. Indeed, it has now become clear that Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and a recognized military expert on terrorists who hide among civilians, was correct when he offered the following testimony, which the Goldstone commission refused to accept:
Tsuvah is not enough. It will have to be Tsuvah and yoim hamise. He had plased so many of his Jewish brothers in harms way.,
One has to wonder why Israel did not participate in any way in the initial investigation, which might have resulted in a more balanced report.
Maybe, instead of judging this mamzer, we should all try to work on ourselves, our friends and families by studying a little shmiras halashon every day. What happens to Goldstone is between him and God, no matter how angry you get at him. Maybe just maybe by focusing on ourselves we can reverse the damage inflicted on us by our own brother in a very real way. Please pass this message on so we may all see the yeshua ASAP
This is like the pot calling the kettle black.
What kind of Teshuva–Sure he’s sorry. He thought he would get some honorable position in tne U.N. for being their lackey and publishing his garbage report. He got nothing. And his social circle in England have nothing to do with him or his wife. They are shunned like lepers. He should move to Gaza. There he’ll have friends.
#5 : Mark Levin, or whatever your name is, you ignorance is truly overshadowed only by your arrogance. Could you try flicking the switch on your brain from “off” to “on?” It might help….
Dershowitz may not be frum, but he comes from a frum family and went to BTA for high scholl where, presumably, a smart Jewish boy did learn plenty of halacha.