Et tu, Goldstone?!!

If Judge Goldstone wanted to be the Secretary General of the United Nations he should have just applied for the job instead of collaborating with the UN Human Rights Commission investigation and producing a report about the conflict in Gaza which showed everything was true except the facts.

During some of the time the good judge was conducting his investigation Hamas rockets were still exploding in Israel despite Israel's unilateral cease-fire in January. Doubtless this escaped Judge Goldstone's notice since he was too busy cloaking his assassin's dagger beneath judicial robes. This practice of legitimizing evil is not unfamiliar to Goldstone since in 1978 he was appointed as a standing judge to the Transvaal Supreme Court by the Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, the Himmler of apartheid. After the demise of apartheid the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established. According to its Legal Enquiry, 1978 was a time when "a climate of state lawlessness prevailed." The TRC also investigated how the apartheid judiciary buttressed, "aided" and "abetted" the crime of apartheid. The question becomes not what Judge Goldstone was doing running around with the entirely worthless UN Human Rights Commission but why he isn't still serving time in jail for providing Prime Minister Botha with the aura of deceptive legitimacy that permitted him to go on arresting, torturing, and murdering blacks.

Judge Goldstone is no champion of justice as his miserable performance on the South African bench clearly shows but he has managed to fool the gullible international community into believing otherwise. Goldstones's tenure as a judge was marked by the most horrifying, viscious, sadistic, and brutal application of apartheid. During the various states of emergency between 1985 and 1989 Judge Goldstone masked these violations of human rights under the rule of law permitting his political masters to persecute and murder with impunity. By posing as an exemplar of legal rectitude while subverting and perverting the most basic standards of justice he became a willing accomplice in crimes against humanity. Judges were tried and convicted at Nuremberg for exactly this but somehow Goldstone has managed to evade all responsibility for his crimes and to persuade the ridiculous UN Human Rights Council that he is fit to investigate and sit in judgement upon others. Thus he has become the envy of all charlatans, the imposter's imposter. Fortunately due to closer scrutiny and the glare of publicity, these imposters are becoming more easy to recognise but very often not, alas, before it is too late. Currently, we have one sitting in the Oval Office.

In his book "History Upside Down" David Meir-Levi relates how Ho Chi Minh's chief strategist, General Giap, met with Yasser Arafat and his lieutenants and told them that they, like the North Vitenamese, needed to redefine the terms of their struggle. Giap's counsel was simple but profound says Meir-Levi: the PLO needed to to work in a way that concealed its real goals, permitted strategic deception, and gave the appearance of moderation: "Stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand." Meir-Levi goes on: " At the same time that he was getting advice from General Giap, Arafat was also being tutored by Muhammad Yazid, who had been minister of information in two Algerian wartime governments (1958-1962).
' Wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by Arab states, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead, present the Palestinian struggle as a struggle for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression...that in the struggle between the Palestinians and the Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism.' "

These highly effective strategies have since been augmented by the Palestinian Myth Machine, an enormous but well oiled and efficient contraption. It beams its disinformation to an audience possessed of the sort of imbecile credulity that would make an African witch-doctor positively green with envy. This explains why after over five years of some 7000 unprovoked rocket attacks upon its civilian population Israel is demonized when she finally has the gall to defend herself. It also explains why the frame of reference for the Goldstone report was designed to excuse the agressor, namely Hamas, and blame the attacked, namely Israel. Thus the UN Human Rights Commission, with its frail grasp of reality, proceeded from conclusion to facts instead of the other way around and displayed all the dismal aspects of a kangaroo court. However, it does not explain why Judge Goldstone used his time on the Commission as an opportunity to catch up on some sleep.

Someone who did not need to catch up on some sleep was Colonel Kemp of the British army. Here is his testimony given before the UN Human Rights Council:

"I am the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan. I served with NATO and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and worked on international terrorism for the UK Government’s Joint Intelligence Committee.

Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population. Hamas, like Hizballah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents. The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights.The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls.

Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties. During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. To deliver aid virtually into your enemy's hands is, to the military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks. Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. War is chaos and full of mistakes. There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes are not war crimes. More than anything, the civilian casualties were a consequence of Hamas’ way of fighting. Hamas deliberately tried to sacrifice their own civilians. Mr. President, Israel had no choice apart from defending its people, to stop Hamas from attacking them with rockets. And I say this again: the IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare. Thank you, Mr. President."

No, thank you Colonel Kemp for your illuminating but mostly ignored testimony. Nevertheless, while you were at it you should have advised Judge Goldstone that contrary to what he may believe there are no celestial virgins awaiting assassins of Israel. However, if he persists in his efforts he might very well be next year's unembarrassed and not entirely startled recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Alas, there is a recent precedent.

Watch the full address here: