Counterpoint: 'Goldstone - Schmoldstone' is a bad approach

[oberliner]

None of this would have happened had Israel done the right - and moral - thing at the outset. An independent national commission of inquiry into the conduct of the war in Gaza and the Negev should have been established.

Because we did not initiate an impartial investigation of the IDF actions, we are partially responsible for inviting much of the international condemnation that has been directed against us. It does not help to point out the unbalanced and hypocritical aspects of the criticism. This was to be expected. But, it all could have been avoided if our leaders were not so hell-bent on applying obduracy as a political policy. We are responsible for this.

The report is clearly flawed - from the makeup of the committee and prejudicial statements about Israel by some of its members before it began its research into the war to its conclusions. I have many reservations about the report and the manner in which its members investigated what happened during the war.

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[Jefferson23]

1. The flaws claimed here, will the WH use them and pass them on to Goldstone I wonder.

He is still waiting for a response.

edit for typo.