Richard Goldstone has published an utter turnaround from the Report he issued for the UN claiming that the IDF intentionally targeted civilians during its response to years of rockets sent into Israel from Gaza targeting civilians.
The Goldstone Report was simply another UN anti-Israel rant, one that for the past year and a half has presented the delegitimizers of Israel with an ostensibly legitimate piece of evidence. Now, Goldstone admits that the major "finding" of the Report is false. In fact, "civilians were not intentionally targeted" by the IDF.
I can't get over the irony stated succinctly by Shimon Peres: ""Goldstone ignored the central reason for the IDF operation...the firing of thousands of rockets at innocent Israeli citizens." The Goldstone Report reversed reality.
This is only another in a long line of false accusations against Israel--the (non)massacre at Jenin, the (non)murder (by Israel) of Mohammad al-Dura, the (non)aggression of the Israeli Navy on the Mavi Mara--which are big news with big reactions when Israel is blamed but get a muted hearing once the dishonesty of the accusations comes out.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren points out that, in light of Goldstone's new statements, the Goldstone Report needs to be "utterly discredited." But I'm not sure that Oren is optimistic about this happening:
"In this article, Judge Goldstone contrasts the deliberate targeting of civilians by Hamas and its refusal to investigate its own war crimes with Israel's efforts to avoid civilian casualties and to fully investigate charges of IDF misconduct. Unfortunately, Judge Goldstone reached these conclusions only now, after his report seriously impaired the ability of Israel--and of all democratic states--to defend themselves, and furnished a major victory for terror," Oren stated.
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