Shinigami Perv
09-27-2009, 09:43 PM
Some Israeli officials went after Goldstone, who is Jewish, personally. Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz denounced him as an "anti-Semite."
"Just as a non-Jew can be anti-Semitic, a Jew can also be anti-Semitic and discriminate against our people and despise and hate our people," he told the New York paper The Jewish Week.
Goldstone has a history of support for Israel that includes his current service on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's board of governors. But despite mounting pressure from Israel and its supporters in the United States, the administration took its time in making a clear statement on the report. A State Department spokesman initially said that because of the report's length, he had no immediate comment.
This made some pro-Israel activists edgy. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said two days after the release of the findings that he was "shocked and distressed" that the United States had yet to come out unequivocally against the report.
But by September 18, three days after the report's release, the State Department had declared Goldstone's findings unfair toward Israel - citing the lack of equal scrutiny stressed by others. Notably, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly did not challenge any of the report's specific findings of human rights violations by Israel or Hamas.
"While the report makes overly sweeping conclusions of fact and law with respect to Israel, its conclusions regarding Hamas's deplorable conduct and its failure to comply with international humanitarian law during the conflict are more general and tentative," he said.
Kelly also made clear that the United States saw the Human Rights Council as the only appropriate venue for a discussion of Goldstone's report. The administration has "very serious concerns" about attempts to take up the issue at other international bodies, he said.
Goldstone's report was published just as the United States began its term as a member of the Human Rights Council. Administration officials said the Goldstone report demonstrated the need for the United States to sit on the council and make sure Israel is treated fairly.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1117314.html
Here it comes. Richard Goldstone, the top official who issued the UN report critical of Israeli war crimes, is anti-Semitic. Never mind that he is Jewish and taught in Israel. Never mind that his daughter calls him an ardent Zionist.
Anti-Semitism = criticism of Israel. Play that race card, man. :datass
It seems I posted this on Yom Kippur. No disrespect, happy YK to you all. :awesome
"Just as a non-Jew can be anti-Semitic, a Jew can also be anti-Semitic and discriminate against our people and despise and hate our people," he told the New York paper The Jewish Week.
Goldstone has a history of support for Israel that includes his current service on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's board of governors. But despite mounting pressure from Israel and its supporters in the United States, the administration took its time in making a clear statement on the report. A State Department spokesman initially said that because of the report's length, he had no immediate comment.
This made some pro-Israel activists edgy. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said two days after the release of the findings that he was "shocked and distressed" that the United States had yet to come out unequivocally against the report.
But by September 18, three days after the report's release, the State Department had declared Goldstone's findings unfair toward Israel - citing the lack of equal scrutiny stressed by others. Notably, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly did not challenge any of the report's specific findings of human rights violations by Israel or Hamas.
"While the report makes overly sweeping conclusions of fact and law with respect to Israel, its conclusions regarding Hamas's deplorable conduct and its failure to comply with international humanitarian law during the conflict are more general and tentative," he said.
Kelly also made clear that the United States saw the Human Rights Council as the only appropriate venue for a discussion of Goldstone's report. The administration has "very serious concerns" about attempts to take up the issue at other international bodies, he said.
Goldstone's report was published just as the United States began its term as a member of the Human Rights Council. Administration officials said the Goldstone report demonstrated the need for the United States to sit on the council and make sure Israel is treated fairly.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1117314.html
Here it comes. Richard Goldstone, the top official who issued the UN report critical of Israeli war crimes, is anti-Semitic. Never mind that he is Jewish and taught in Israel. Never mind that his daughter calls him an ardent Zionist.
Anti-Semitism = criticism of Israel. Play that race card, man. :datass
It seems I posted this on Yom Kippur. No disrespect, happy YK to you all. :awesome