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September 30, 2009
Jews sans frontiers calls B'Tselem the Z word
The title is "B'Tselem the zionist 'human rights' group" with "human rights" in scare quotes. At issue is the following from the Jerusalem Post:
The UN Human Rights Council and its recent Goldstone Report are either biased or mistaken respectively in some of their fundamental accusations against Israel, according to the director of one of Israel's main rights groups.JSF is not pleased:Even so, "Israel has only itself to blame" for its failure to investigate the accusations of abuses during January's Operation Cast Lead that led to the report, according to B'Tselem executive director Jessica Montell.
"There's no question that the HRC, which mandated the Goldstone [fact-finding mission into the Gaza fighting], has an inappropriate, disproportionate fixation with Israel," she said, adding that the Council was "a political body made up of diplomats, not human rights experts, which means that the powerful states are never going to come under scrutiny the way the powerless will. So China, Russia and the US will never have commission of inquiry, regardless of how their crimes rank relative to Israeli crimes."
Furthermore, the Goldstone Report itself, which was presented in its final version to the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, is "disagreeable" and mistaken in some of its gravest accusations against Israel, she believes. These include the claim that Israel intentionally targeted the civilian population rather than Hamas, and the "weak, hesitant way that the report mentions Hamas's strategy of using civilians [in combat]."
I've been happy enough to run with B'Tselem's criticisms of Israel in the past but I have had doubts about them. It was never anything I could actually put my finger on so I suppose I should be grateful for the fact that B'Tselem's group director, Jessica Montell, has decided to run with the zionist pack over the Goldstone report on Israel's bout of war crimes against the civilian population of Gaza at the end of last year and the beginning of this one.The intrepid frontierless one introduces his response by asking "Is comment necessary here? Oh alright then, here goes . . . " Do we have to waste any attention on his comments (unless they're funny)? Naaaah.
Crossposted on Judeopundit
Posted by Judeopundit at September 30, 2009 8:41 PM
Hezbollah in passive voice
A cynical and mistrusted offer
Wapo: peace process succeeding because of the great work of the administration
Council speak 100610
Nyt: peace process failing despite the great work of the administration
Do we have enough regulations yet?
Iranian General: "US, Mossad played roles in 9/11 event"
Absolving arafat, ten years later
Rahm can't run? antisemites!
The politics of peace
Mark Elf is an anti-Zionist Marxist but he and the Neturei Karta minim share the same twisted desire: to see Israel destroyed. No more mention needs to be made of them. They do not deserve the attention of serious people. May they and all their poisonous brood of vipers among the Jewish people have their name blotted out from under Heaven!
Posted by: NormanF at October 1, 2009 2:44 AMPretty amazing how fast the left will turn on its own, in an instant huh Yitzchak? Somehow very liberal Jews seem to prostrate themselves to the radical left regardless.
Only took one principled stand not perfectly in line with the anti-Zionist crowd. Unreal, Betselem the 'Zionists' lol. There's a new one I never heard before.
Posted by: saus at October 1, 2009 8:39 AMWhy are you giving the raging psychotics at JSF any ink. Their own blogroll links to holocaust deniers. The J in JSF is what should be in quotes.
Posted by: Empress Trudy at October 1, 2009 9:47 AMWhy are you giving the raging psychotics at JSF any ink.
The real point of the post is about the Goldstone report. It is so biased that it has moonbats hurling the Z word at each other.
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at October 1, 2009 10:39 AMYes, Yitzchak, they hate each other as much as they hate the Jewish State. The irony of it is lost on the moonbats!
Posted by: NormanF at October 1, 2009 1:51 PM