Have An Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone

Goldstone lied, people died. I like the sound of that. But you won't hear that from the left or our friends in the Caliphate. South African Judge Richard Goldstone is the United Nations Human Rights Council member who wrote the outrageous "Goldstone Report" regarding Gaza and Israel starting with events in 2008. The pack of lies and anti-Israel propaganda was used by antisemites worldwide to damn Israel for defending itself.

Worldwide media hailed the report for its honesty and craftsmanship, including all the major American media. Nothing new there. Goldstone ignored all standards of investigation, law, fairness and ethics while condemning Israel and ignoring the acts of Hamas and the Palestinian Intifada. Hamas charged all kinds of horrendous human rights abuses, but Goldstone didn't call a single witness who could actually corroborate the charges. Goldstone had decided in advance, in keeping with UN habit, that Israel was guilty of deliberately killing civilians and committing war crimes.

During the period covered by the report, Hamas and friends lobbed rockets and of mortar shells into Israel, deliberately picking targets in highly-populated civilian areas. Israel responded with pinpoint attacks on Hamas strongholds, knocking out many of the ordnance locations. Hamas and the Palestinians place their armaments in the middle of their own populated areas, and the locals don't bother to get out of the way. So naturally, the attacks on the armaments resulted in a number of civilian casualties. Unfortunate, but also necessary. Hamas targeted civilians, but Israel targeted arms depots and Hamas strongholds, resulting in what is most often called collateral damage. In case Goldstone and the leftists haven't noticed, using civilians as shields and civilian homes as hideouts inevitably leads to unwanted but predictable civilian deaths.

Israel is scrupulous about investigating any possible human rights violation within its own ranks. After conducting an exhaustive investigation of the activities covered by the Goldstone, Israel (along with several neutral investigators) recently produced a counter-report with incontrovertible evidence, proof, and testimony. Unlike Hamas and the Islamofascist murderers, Israel actually found two instances where Israeli defense forces had exceeded the rigid rules of engagement which the government of Israel imposes on its military. Those involved are currently being punished.

The new report was so exacting and so ironclad that it showed the Goldstone Report up for what it actually was--a sham and a UN coverup of Hamas's murderous ways. Whether struck with conscience or merely embarrassed by his incompetent "investigation," Goldstone has now disavowed his own report. Goldstone went public with his non-apology apology in the Washington Post. The fact that the Post even printed it is surprising, since it tends to prove that they have been enabling Islamist lies and supporting a world peace organization that cares not a wit for actual peace (or truth, for that matter).

After admitting that his report was seriously lacking in all the fundamentals of a genuine investigation, Goldstone further stated that he could find no serious flaws in Israel's counter-report. He says he "regrets that his panel did not offer a fuller picture." Oh, his report was full, all right. Full of lies but absent any believable facts. He says that the counter-report proves beyond any doubt that civilians in Gaza were not targeted either intentionally or as a matter of policy. He neglected to mention that it did prove that Hamas regularly, intentionally, and as a matter of policy targets civilians.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding that the UN formally repudiate the Goldstone Report. As he should. But Natanyahu is no fool, and I'm sure he's not holding his breath waiting for the UN or the Council to admit their purposeful defamation of Israel. Said Netanyahu: "There are very few instances in which those who disseminate libels retract their libel. This happened in the case of the Goldstone Report."

Now you know that the left and the Islamofascists are not going to take this lying down. Their former hero is now their demon. Goldstone has been called a "self-loathing Jew," a "traitor," and "an ignoramus who doesn't know the difference between antisemitism and antizionism." Ilan Pappe at Electronic Intifada calls Goldstone's statement a "shameful U-turn." But just like the original Goldstone Report, they offer no proof that he was right then or wrong now.

Note: For those not familiar with musical comedy, "Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone" is a line from a song in the musical "Gypsy."