Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Exclusive: Schabas’ own colleague, human rights icon Aryeh Neier, calls for him to quit UN Gaza prob [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)The main conclusion of the report was that Israel attacked civilians as a matter of policy. Ergo, war crimes charges against the state of Israel. The entire point of the witch-hunt from the very beginning was to defame Israel, insult all its supporters, and bait Jews with modern blood-libel charges.
IOW, he retracted and the whole report turned to shit. It's in the dustbin of history and no one mentions it anymore as a result.
Goldstone grew a conscience and retracted. HRW and Amnesty were making the same unfounded charges, and then claimed after Goldstone retracted that they never did. A cover-up, hoping no one would take notice of the fact that they were bullshitting from day one with their Israeli gov't war crime charges.
It wasn't enough to argue that some rogue soldiers or units may have been guilty of war crimes. They over-reached and they knew it. ANYONE objective knew it. From Israel's supporters to gutter anti-semites.
The other non-Jews were criticized as well. Maybe you need to consider that the UN put 2 Jews in charge of the last 2 commissions, for obvious reasons; trying to deflect charges of antisemitism and bias. Of course they'll receive the lion's share of criticism. If they had been minor role players, they'd be just as invisible as the other participants.