tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post3713585879145781657..comments2024-01-29T21:39:07.526+02:00Comments on This Ongoing War: A Blog: 2-Apr-11: Quotes of the week: Judge Goldstone - too little and much too lateOz_in_Zionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13661581252423495040noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post-83004103175514920572011-04-04T09:48:59.589+03:002011-04-04T09:48:59.589+03:00We don't agree with you.
Starting with the e...We don't agree with you. <br /><br />Starting with the explicitly political views of the 'judges', and the prejudicial reference under which they worked (that made it clear Israel was guilty before the work got started), this fact-finding panel's process was far from a judicial proceeding, despite the involvement of one judge.<br /><br />David Horovitz, whom we quoted here, says very well why Israeli co-operation with this travesty would have made a bad situation worse:<br /><br />"To have formally subjected itself to examination by his committee and the institutionally biased UN Human Rights Council that had formed it – a bias which Goldstone now acknowledges in his article – would merely have given his work greater purported credibility. Notwithstanding that absent formal cooperation, however, the truth about what happened in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009 – the truth that Goldstone now disingenuously claims to have discovered only after he filed his malicious indictment of the IDF and of Israel – was readily available to him at the time. Israel did informally make the necessary information available to his committee in the shape of detailed reports on what had unfolded. And open sources, honestly evaluated, left no doubt that Hamas was the provocateur, that Hamas was deliberately placing Palestinians in harm’s way, that Hamas was lying about the proportion of combatants among the Gaza dead."This Ongoing Warhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00071059442104716833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post-71746692569494309762011-04-04T09:13:05.559+03:002011-04-04T09:13:05.559+03:00In terms of future lessons the most obvious should...In terms of future lessons the most obvious should be that if Israel wants to be treated fairly by the UN they should cooperate with such investigations instead of stonewalling. If Goldstone is correct, it was precisely Israel's intransigence that led to the report being one sided. You can't blame a court for a suspect who refuses to defend themselves.Atlanta Roofinghttp://tiny.cc/yzwq2noreply@blogger.com