Washington lawmakers are aligned with Israel, rejecting the Goldstone Report, the biased UN Human Rights report portraying Israel as a nation guilty of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead. The report is named after the head of the fact-finding inquiry mission, retired justice, Richard Goldstone, a Jew who continues to reaffirm his loyalty to Israel, brazenly stating that his role in the process has prevented an even harsher report, working to protect Israel. He dares to defend this chilul Hashem that bears his name, seeking to justify his actions as an emissary of the enemies of Israel.
Baruch Hashem, the US House unanimously rejected the report in a 344-36 vote, urging President Barak Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to oppose any attempt to legitimize the report, which will be brought to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stated the report “epitomizes the practice of singling Israel out from all other nations for condemnation.”
Congresswoman (Democrat) Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the State & Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee warned that supporting the report could have a damaging effect on ongoing peacemaking efforts in the Mideast.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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What it boils down to, is that the United Nations is going to tell us today that we Jews have no right to defend ourselves. I once heard that one of the Geloei Yisroel of yesteryear said that when Moshiach will come, every gentile will try to claim “who-me? I never did anything against a Jew. So the Ribboinoi shel oilom created a United Nations where the whole world is united against the Jew, and Hagoidosh boruch Hu will tell the Umois ho’oilom why didn’t you speak up when my children were being trampled? The few who did will be blessed, and that includes our 344 House representatives.
Richard Goldstone should be put in the same category as that busha from the Neturei Karta; RODEF!!!!
Some good news for a change. This speech was given today in the United Nations (on request of UN Watch) by a British Army General.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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 Defense 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.
If 36 voted against it, then it was not unanimous. Check your dictionary!!
#4 36 out of 380 (344+36=380) is less then 10 percent, less then a “shtus” (a sixth) and therefore doesn’t count. If we ever got a vote in the UN with 344 out of 380 in favor of us, it would surely thunder as a unanimous vote.