November 19, 2009
Goldstone Reports's Col. Desmond Travers: 'Hey, They Never Laid A Glove On Me!'
But not a glove has been landed on the report itself ... It cannot and will not be buried. It will not go away.
Col. Desmond Travers, participant in the Goldstone fact-finding mission
And neither will the analyzes, criticisms and refutations of that very same Goldstone Report--critiques that Col. Travers claims do not exist.
Among the sources of analysis online is Understanding The Goldstone Report, which has a section featuring Open Letters To Judge Goldstone, including:
- Law Professor Trevor Norwitz
- Dr. David Zangen (who refuted the Jenin Massacre myth)
- Rep. Howard Berman (who rebutted Goldstone's criticism of HR 867)
- CAMERA (whose whose The Goldstone Report: A Study in Duplicity points out factual flaws in the Report)
If Col. Travers cannot even recognize the fact that in-depth, critiques of the Report exist that deal with the actual facts, what are we to think of the Goldstone Report in which he participated?
by Daled Amos Posted by daledamos at November 19, 2009 12:58 PM
The perverse equivalence
A discriminating education
Goldstone Reports's Col. Desmond Travers: 'Hey, They Never Laid A Glove On Me!'
Negotiating by tantrum
Submitted 11/19/09
Passively described aggression
Palin on "settlements"
Bringing mohammed to new york
Mahmoud Abbas Enters The Twilight Zone
Of drones and doctrines
IT's strange that HRW, Amesty, B'Tselem and
host of NGOs are all consitent in their claim. When added to the statements made by israels own leaders before the war and those IDFs soldiers who revealed their shame after the war, it makes things hard for Israels propganda machine.
http://thehasbarabuster.blogspot.com/2009/10/zionist-blogosphere-is-example-of-mps.html
Hasby, selective criticism from Israeli leftists like yourself are unrepresentative of Israeli Jewish public opinion. Your view is that of a very small minority in Israel and it says a lot about Goldstone that it acknowledged only Israeli views that concurred with its pre-formulated verdict of Israel's wartime guilt.
Posted by: NormanF at November 19, 2009 8:44 PMOne qualification for condemning the Goldstone Report is not having read it which I suspect is the case with virtually all its critics including soccer dad.
The second is not having watched any of the attack on Al-Jazeera which not only covered it but even gave Israel's mini-Goebbels, Mark Regev and a Goebbelette whose name I forgot--but the war crimes prosecutors will not-- a chance to deny or rationalize what Al-Jazeera's viewers all over the world were seeing--like the repeated use by Israel of white phosphorus--and make fools out of themselves, .
So Israel is rapidly becoming a pariah state. And the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement will continue to grow in Europe and the UK, which just happen to be major Israeli trading partners. The attack on Gaza and Israel's predictable response to the Goldstone Report have only helped to speed it up.
Posted by: Jeff at November 19, 2009 9:41 PMThe links in the post Jeff has added his comments to render any further response unnecessary.
Posted by: Daled Amos at November 19, 2009 9:46 PMThe only thing which is pre- formulated is the venom directed at anyone who dares to reveals the truth by the 'We Rock! They Suck! You Suck! Everything Sucks!' pro israel bloggers.
Posted by: sass at November 20, 2009 9:15 AM