If you still have any doubt about the anti-Israel bias of the Goldstone report, this might be the convincing evidence you need to completely disregard the Goldstone report.
A co-author of the Goldstone Gaza report, which accuses both Hamas and Israel of war crimes, claims the Gaza militant group fired only two rockets at Israel prior to last year’s winter conflict, according to a new report published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
[…] Travers also rejects Israel Defense Forces photographs as proof that Hamas hid weapons in mosques during the conflict.
“I do not believe the photographs,” Travers said, describing the IDF evidence as “spurious.”
He also accuses “Jewish lobbyists” of influencing British foreign policy in the Middle East and says that efforts to block the Goldstone reports findings have failed.
“The court of world opinion seems determined to see the report prevail,” he said.
He dismisses any evidence that disproves his theories, and accuses Israel of setting out to commit war crimes. Say, that sounds exactly like the objective given to the Goldstone Commission that Goldstone said the commission ignored. Yeah, we bought that line, too.
Good to know that the court to try Israel is now the court of world opinion, not, say, an actual courtroom with, you know, rules, laws, things like that. Because after all, why on earth would we need such a thing in the kangaroo court known as the UN?
This is true of Judge Goldstone too, as I’ve written many times. He told the Forward that his commission would prove nothing in a court of law and yet in the same interview he inisted that Israel must refute the allegations or stand convicted of the “charges” of violating international law. Clearly he believed that Israel was guilty until proven innocent.
Meryl, it’s very rare that I resort to this kind of response, but recently my initial reaction to comments of this kind is simply ‘Let them go f*** themselves’, only I’m less polite.
The Court of World Opinion is made up of antisemites. Either they are antisemitic out of conviction (a rare breed I suspect), due to antisemitism now being the party line of almost all the Leftists, or are antisemitic out of cowardice in the face of Muslim aggresiveness. These…people…say they are anti-Zionist, not antisemitic. Except for outfits like Netura Kartei (they are not antisemitic, just fanatically stupid) I regard this as specious. Israel’s enemies seek Israel’s destruction and the genocide of Israel’s Jewish inhabitants. The “critics” of Israel stand in support of this goal. Therefore they stand in support of renewed genocide of the Jews. Supporting genocide of the Jews is antisemitic. QED.
As best as I can tell from searching the internets, Col. Travers has NEVER BEEN IN COMBAT!
As a member of the IDF … umm … Irish Defence Forces :-} that is no surprise. From
what is freely available the closest he got to combat was as a peacekeeper in Cyprus.
In other words, he is a REMF.
Since he never faced any enemy other than professional rivals of course he is critical of
REAL COMBAT VETERANS. It would be better to rely on Military Professionals who have
actually been at war. Of course most of them are rather sympathetic to what Israel
is facing. So why would the UN ask them?