Putting the Goldstone report in suspension

Supposedly, the delay could give Israel time to investigate the "war crimes." But there is no way tp disprove the lie that Israel deliberately targetted civilians, since no evidence was presented to support the lie. The man says your sister is a whore. Go prove you don't have a sister.

 

Canned trash: Killing Israel-bashing UN report was a rare, welcome move

Editorials

 

Sunday, October 4th 2009, 4:00 AM

 

Score one for the good guys. Under intense U.S. pressure, the UN Human Rights Council shelved, if only temporarily, the distorted, unfair, libelous and dangerous report on Israel's war of self-defense in Gaza.

 

The document, produced by a commission headed by supposedly esteemed international law expert Richard Goldstone, was worse than a one-sided affair.

 

In keeping with the council's blatant anti-Israel posture, Goldstone accused the Jewish state of war crimes for acting to end an eight-year bombardment of 4,200 Hamas rockets and 5,700 Hamas mortars.

 

There was joy in the lands of Hamas and Hezbollah at Goldstone's conclusions because they essentially declared that Israel could not legitimately use force in Gaza - no matter how the country attempted to avoid civilian casualties.

 

And try Israel did, by making thousands of phone calls and dropping tens of thousands of leaflets warning of impending attacks on Hamas terrorists. The air force went so far as to drop noisemakers on roofs as a signal to people to flee.

 

No matter.

 

The report concluded that Israel targeted "the people of Gaza as a whole" as part of "an overall policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population for its resilience and for its apparent support for Hamas."

 

All too transparently, the goal was to put Israel in the dock. But the Obama administration pushed the Palestinians into withdrawing such a resolution, proving that, at least in this case, U.S. membership on the council came in handy.