Articles like this demonstrate why I have come to absolutely despise Israel and many of its people. My wife is Jewish, but you'd never know it, because she doesn't hate like many Israeli Jews seem to do. But I've learned hate to be honest, from reading pieces like this, and the true history of Israeli occupation and oppression. How could any thinking person not be affected by the real facts of what has occurred? The bloodlust exhibited by author Eitan Haber is disgusting and vile. The "scalps" comment is so typical of Israeli arrogance and vile attitudes towards everyone else. As Haber himself claims -- Israel can kiss my "rear-end". Any American that continues to blindly support Israel and its practice of genocide and oppression against a suffering and starving people can also kiss my "rear-end". Israel is a criminal entity and it's people know it.

all what you wrote is garbage ypu obviously dont know the history let alone the facts and it is you who can kiss my arse. Your wife who married a goy like yourself deserves the goy she got. I feel sorry for your jewish kids, alas thats american jewery's future.

There hasn't been a war without one or the other sort of “crime” before, during and/or after. That being said and as unfortunate as it may be, Israel needs to stop reacting to all the BS and simply do what's necessary to keep its people safe. Yielding to pressure, from every direction or even pretending to do so, while one's people are being threatened and murdered by suicidal nutjobs and bombarded with missiles doesn't look like it's keeping anybody safe. You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time, so why bother trying?. Even if it's true, why is it so earth-shattering for a few soldiers to have overstepped acceptable bounds, but nobody seems to have a problem with the fact that the official declaration of the PA is to wipe Israel off the map??? Shana Tova!

Best way to get rid of bad image is to put 10% or even 20% of the energy we put into our paranoid warmaking into ACTIVE PEACEMAKING. Operation Cast Lead did not have to happen at all if we REALLY wanted peace. But because of our pride (refusal to talk with "terrorists"), and addiction to violence as our problem-solver of chioice, we didn't. Do we Israelis REALLY want to live with as many wars in the next 61 yrs as we've had in the last 61? Before you say "it's not up to us" - STOP PLAYING THE VICTIM and try to be just as PROACTIVE as peacemakers as we are in hi-tech, defense industries, and the like......

Si vis pacem, para bellum, Herb. You need BOTH parties to a conflict to want to make peace, but only one to make war! And in this case it was Hamas that started, and Israel that finished. @ Haber Only NOW you think about fighting back? What do you think CAMERA, MEMRI and many many bloggers and posters have been doing all these years, when you were undermining Israel with all your idiotic op-eds???

he wants to escape the big stone it does not hurt but may it will kill ..the last report is so big so true

war need 2 even in one body you must have two people against each othe ... peace need only one to know the right from the wrong the justice from unfair even in one body you must be only one only one decision and one direction .. israil have many openion and many decisions it is as experiments if this fail that may not . in israil there are many bodies evry one with antagonized direction it is the war inside the israilitis so they will not get peace with themselves or with the others

Israel's propaganda machine--ordinarily hyperactive--has already gone into overdrive. Sadly, treating charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as first and foremost a problem to be addressed through public relations and diplomacy is but a further indication of guilt and the corrupton of Israeli ethos. It's too late for public relations. The white phosphorus has burned through all the P.R. veils that have hidden the truth. All that can help Israel now is to follow the recommendations of Judge Goldstone. It is the duty of te ICC to try violations of international law by a state when it cannot or will not investigate and prosecute those crimes within its own judicial system. What the world expects--that is, the people of the world--is for Israel to either abide by international law or to be held accountable for its violations in the International Criminal Court, if need be. The escalation of the Israel's propaganda campaign, which you like to call "public relations," in the U.S. is backfiring and only solidifying our conclusion that Israelis are incorrigible war criminals and thugs who care not a wit about observing human rights of others.

I've read recently that Goldstone's own daughter does not agree with him at all.

Is the daughter of Richard Goldstone also a jurist and expert in international law? Was she a member of the investigative team? Otherwise, what is her opinion worth?

I wonder how much Goldstone got paid for the report.

Goldstone is a racisit criminal who wrote a fabricated report to vilify the Jews of Israel. This report is a criminal racesit lies against the Jews. This is no cheap, old-fashioned libel. This is a much more sophisticated libel. Now it is called a "narrative." The Goldstone mission builds the narrative one stage after another. Does libel start with the Kassams that began to fall in 2001? No way. Does the Executive Summary say anything about the thousands of Kassams that have been fired since and have turned the lives of the residents of southern Israel into hell? Not with Goldstone.