- Judge GOLDSTONE's report was prepared by UN Human Rights Council - who's sterling members include Libya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia!
- GOLDSTONE parrots the Arab allegations that Israel's defensive actions against Gaza in January 2009 was “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself and to force upon it an ever-increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”
- No mention of what constitutes "a proportionate response" when one is being terrorized by "a belligerent intent on your destruction".
- where the international doctrine of "proportionality" existed before being brought up in his report (it didn't).
- failure to distinguish between aggressor and self-defense, ignoring the right and obligation of a state to stop rocket and mortar fire from reaching it's citizens and their children.
- if stopping rocket-launchers that target civilians is a war-crime, then criminalizing self-defense is a "peace crime".
- GOLDSTONE threatens to refer Israel's leaders to the International Criminal Court unless they investigate and punish some scapegoats. JONAS reminds us that Canada is a signatory to this UN legislation.
[Update: This continues with the nattering opponents commentary are graciously given the space to hang themselves. Towit: Judy REBICK, Naomi KLEIN and Johanathon KAY]
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