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Goldstone defends Gaza war crimes report
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Published: 29.09.09, 12:08
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31. International law? Ho,Ho,Ho.
Brad ,   USA   (09.29.09)
Hey Goldstone, International law, is an ass. Here's proof. Non-Muslim blacks in Sudan are enslaved, murdered, raped, and have been the victims of mayhem (having their hands and/or feet cut off). Arab Muslims, and black Muslims have done this to them. Yet, we have not heard a peep from the U.N. bloodsuckers, or the E.U. child molesters. For you to sit on your fat butt, and pontificate about "human rights", "war crimes", and "international law", is laughable at best, and obscene at worst. If you and the above organizations want to be taken seriously, you all need to cut the crap, and unbolt your faces from Islam's rear end.
32. According to Arabs, Israel is immoral so any
JMK ,   NYC   (09.29.09)
act against immorality and Israel is riighteous and moral and any action Israel takes to defend itself (immorality) is immoral and sinful. That a Jew would defend Jew hating Arabs is all too common.
33. Goldstone's report was too kind
David ,   La Mesa CA   (09.29.09)
Cast Lead was not about rockets. Seriously, they are little danger. It was about political necessity. If Israel wanted to take out rockets and mortar rounds, IDF could have deployed laser-guided systems which the U.S. uses in Iraq, and which Israel itself is developing. With very little effort, Israel could create an anti-missile anti-mortal shield today. Or last winter. Israel’s serious mortal danger is not dimestore from munitions, but from the Palestinian population itself, organized as an Islamist polity with global ties. Should Hamas takes over the West Bank, this will make conditions in Israel much more difficult. If Islamists advance in other adjacent states (as they are slowly doing), this could bring more attacks, sabotage, water conflicts, brain drain, capital flight, and the Muslim world will spur international boycotts, war crimes trials. Cast Lead appears to have been conducted intentionally against civilians and militias, not rockets, and Goldstone was being diplomatic in not saying so. In any case, Israel must contain, or isolate, or evict, these highly reproductive Palestinians, and undermine their economic survival, or Israel will face a difficult future. But I think the world will not allow this revolting tactic to go on. A spiritual alternative would for Israel and global Jews to re-examine their identity and ask themselves how long they wish to cling to believing they are God’s Chosen, and all this entails. Consider, as an alternative, the 'truth and reconciliation' movement in Goldstone's South Africa, which ended Apartheid, as a role-model. If Israel sinks into decades-long slow death to Islam, spiritual Jewry will die along with it anyway, a ‘byword among the nations’ and a ‘shaking of the head in shame.’ (Ps. 44.14)
34. Lawyers cannot see the truth
avrom ,   bet shemesh   (09.29.09)
IN an adverserial judicial system lawyers are paid to argue their clients case right or wrong they argue that black is white since they are paid liars G-d takes away their ability to see the truth IF you speak only the truth you can see the truth however if you speak lies you talk lies .This explains why our politicians many of whom are lawyers cannot analyse and asess a situation correctly and therefore come up with crazy solutions and policies this is the causative factor in becoming a left wing loonie who inverts the truth and defends the terrorists and criminals and criminilise the law abiding victims Thus the Palestinians are the victims of the Israelis
35. Goldstein did his job
(09.29.09)
People should stop pretending that Goldstein investigated anything. Find out who paid his salary, you will find out why he wrote what he wrote. It's not personal, it's business
36. #3 his Jewishness is not his profession
observer   (09.29.09)
37. #36
(09.30.09)
you may be right. however, IT SEEMS THAT HIS BIAS IS HIS PROFESSION INDEED. if and when the un hrw with goldstone as the judge investigates the nato coalition and the usa for bombing innocent civilians in afghanistan and iraq as well as bosnia, causing thousands of "murders", genocide and the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and by standers in the line of fire and in battles and for air bombing their cities and villages mercilessly, only then, would goldstone seem to be impartial and concerned about human rights. what is good for the goose is good for the gander. no one should be investigating only one country and its military operations against a terrorist enemy in an assymetrical difficult war if they are unwilling to investigate other countries' military personnel and officers for crimes against humanity and war crimes because they killed many many more civilians than israel did in cast lead. apparently, godstone's refusal to investigate bosnia, to investigate the killing fields in somalia, in darfur, in malasia and in tibet ( by the chinese government) only points to severe bias in his choice and concentration of only one country, namely israel. also, a person like goldstone who sits and sat on the board of the un hrw is totally unfit to judge since this organization is completly political and biased and has never investigated other atrocities much much more severe that this cast lead operation. this organization is arab oriented and arab biased and you know it. it has no interest in human rights. its interest is in politics and a political tool to constantly bash one and only one country. look at their records. while there is mayhem, death, destruction and killings and genocide in all parts of the muslim world, there is not one peep out of this organization regarding other "genocides". when such an organization uses politics as a tool, it ceases to be a human rights organization. it ceases to be taken seriously and it sceases to be important and should just be taken with a grain of salt. i am also against anrwa, who has diligently kept the palestinians as beggars and perpetrated their dependency on aid and their being the world's largest beggars. the un and its affiliate organizations today are A JOKE! a miserable joke taken over by arabs and arab muslim nations that are the biggest perpetrators of crimes against humanity, of repression, of killing, or dictatorships, of fanaticism and of police states without any freedom or rights for their citizenry. for countries like iran, lybia and syria to sit on the human rights counsil is a really really BAD JOKE, considering that they are the most thugish brutal regimes and sponsors and financiers of world terrorism where thousands are jailed, tortured and murdered. for them to pass judgement on a civilized democratic country protecting its citizenry is an orwellian joke, to say the least. people know it. they realize it. however, their hate for israel and jews in general makes them blind to all the injustice carried on in the countries who support this investigation and also takes the heat off of them. should they be investigated, the worst pandora box will be open and i can guarantee you that the un and hrw will have years and years of information to ponder on and investigate without much time to concentrate on israel. hameed aboughaze, iranian
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