Oops...Israel was right after all...

Whoops! The JUDGE from the UN Human Rights Council that investigated charges that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in the brief war with Hamas a few years ago has CHANGED HIS MIND. Will the UN do anything with this new information? No, the original report made Israel look bad, and that is just fine with the UN. Can you imagine IF the positions were reversed? A UN Council would never have found that Hamas deliberately targeted civilians (which they actually do). There would have been some kind of 'reason' that would have justified it. THEN, if it was found that Hamas had indeed not deliberately targeted civilians, there would have been news coverage galore.....How could the UN have been so insensitive? What can the world community do to make it up to Hamas? How does this reflect on world values? Is this really the world's fault....aren't we all to blame?? It would go on, and on, and on..... BUT, NO. This revelation about Israel is getting very little coverage. Who cares? It's just a smear against Israel. And that's allowed, right? At the UN it is not only allowed, it is expected.

Mr. Goldstone’s Regrets
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff Wednesday, April 6, 2011

In the midst of the continuing bombardment of southern Israel, the jurist who headed the U.N. uman Rights Council fact-finding mission into the Gaza war of 2008-2009 has now recanted his damning assessment of Israeli conduct. “If I had known then what I know now,” wrote Richard Goldstone on the op-ed page of the Washington Post, “the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.”

Goldstone, a retired chief justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court who had also prosecuted war criminals from the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, now, he wrote, has the benefit of a subsequent report by another panel named by the U.N. to follow up on his report. That second report found “Israel has dedicated significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operation misconduct in Gaza” while Hamas officials “have not conducted any investigations into the launching of rocket and mortar attacks against Israel.”

The astonishing thing is, of course, that Goldstone found this somehow surprising — that Israel with its long-standing respect for the rule of law would investigate possible military misconduct, while Hamas, which knows only the rule of the gun, would not.

Of course, the government of Israel did itself no favors by announcing ahead of time it had no intention of cooperating with Goldstone’s investigation. That was just plain stupid.

Goldstone for his part conceded the “history of bias against Israel” by the U.N. Human Rights Council might have had something to do with that. Now he calls upon that council to condemn the continuing rocket bombardment of southern Israel permitted by Hamas and, as he put it, “the cold-blooded slaughter of a young Israeli couple and three of their small children in their beds” on the West Bank.

Frankly, we’re not holding our breath on that one, and neither should Goldstone. And a spokesman for the Council said of the now disputed report, “U.N. reports are not canceled on the basis of an op-ed in a newspaper.”