Goldstone's sorry, and if people died

I've been trying to figure out a way to do this story right since Friday when Richard Goldstone first admitted he was wrong. As Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission Justice Richard Goldstone presented the Report of the Mission to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 29 September 2009, urging the Council and the international community as a whole to put an end to impunity for violations of international law in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  His report has since been used by the Turks, Palestinians and the Obama Administration to vilify Israel and make Hamas and the Palestinians look like victims

It's a complicated story and one difficult for most Americans to understand.  On her website Real American Defend Israel a very angry Bee Sting managed to do what I couldn't figure out how to do.  She put it this way

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THE GOLDSTONE REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS WAS THE "SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD"! I REMEMBER WELL HOW THE LIBERAL MEDIA TREATED THE STATE OF ISRAEL, QUESTIONING ITS RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF FROM TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM; THE ON-GOING BATTLES THROUGHOUT MANY A NIGHT BETWEEN THOSE WHO STOOD BY ISRAEL AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM AND ANTI-ISRAEL BLOGGERS ON AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. AT THE TIME, IT APPEARED ISRAEL WOULD LOSE THE BATTLE FOR JUSTICE, AS THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THE STATE OF ISRAEL WERE OUTNUMBERED TEN TO ONE. FACTS MADE NO DIFFERENCE, FOR THE FLAMES WERE SET, SPEECHES HEARD, AND PROPAGANDA OF ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY AND HAMAS WERE ACCEPTED AS "TRUTH" - AFTER ALL, WASN'T GOLDSTONE A JEW? SURELY A JEW WOULD NOT BETRAY ISRAEL UNLESS THE ACCUSATIONS MADE WERE ABSOLUTELY TRUE.


AND THE OUTCOME OF THIS REPORT WAS THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN USA AID TO GAZA/HAMAS AND THE PALESTINIANS. OH, THE UNITED STATES VETOED THE REPORT, BUT AT WHAT PRICE? THE PRICE WA S A BETRAYAL FROM HER ONCE CLOSES ALLY, THE UNITED STATES; BOYCOTTS; OPEN CONDEMNATION FROM OUR STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION; WEAK ARGUMENTS THAT WHILE HAMAS IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, ISRAEL IS NO BETTER THAN THOSE WHO FIGHT AGAINST HER

Read the rest of Bee Stings comments and the entire story  Judge Goldstone - too little and much too late
 

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We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document...... Richard Goldstone

 

As a result of Richard Goldstone's not knowing, Hamas was given aid by the Obama Administration, the aid was used to buy  missiles, the missiles were used to attack Israel and kill civilians.... Might just be me, but I think our President might need to do a little more investigation of his own before rushing to do everything the UN suggests..

 

You can read the rest of Goldstones statement here..

 

Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes

Reverend Wright has nothing on this guy



Who decides, Congress or the UN

Before there are any misunderstandings, Muammar Gaddadfi is a terrorist, for years going all the way back to the Nixon years he supported and financed terrorist activities against the United States and other countries.

He committed what amounted to acts of war against the US during the presidencies of Carter, Reagan and Bush Senior. In 1984 Gaddafi started financing terrorist acts inside the U.S. One of the leading groups receiving Gaddafi's money was the Nation of Islam.   Al-Rakr, another Libyan-financed gang in Chicago, declared in 1984 that it was preparing for a "race war" to "settle scores with whites".  An interesting side note;  In 1984 Obama's old minister accompanied Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakan to meet with Gaddadfi

Muammur Gaddadfi also financed terrorism, bobing and bombing plots in Germany,  Palestine, Indonesia, Australia, Ireland and too many other places to list.

Closer to Libya he was involved in the civilian massacres Sierra Leon.  He intervened militarily in the Central African Republic in 2001 to protect his ally Ange-Félix Patassé.   Gaddadfi  also Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was later convicted of one of the deadliest genocides in modern history.  His troops fought  against Tanzania on behalf of Idi Amin

I can only imagine how he treated his own people,  If he gets killed today, as far as I'm concerned, it's forty years overdue.

Even so I'm not totally comfortable with the way the No Fly Resolution came about, it's goals or the way it's being implemented.  First of all, why did it take forty years to for the wold to decide the SOB had to go?  Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had the means and the justification to do it years ago. Bush Sr. took a couple shots at him, and let the matter drop.

The UN Resolution, to Create and enforce a no fly zone to prevent Gaddadfi from killing civilians, seems to have different meanings to different Countries.  It's clear that some of the Euro Powers, it means to take him out, end his regime and if he's still alive when it's over, hang him.  Others seem to think it's sole purpose is limited to preventing air attacks and bombing of civilians.  What happens if the rebels start killing Gaddadfi supporters?  Worse, what happens if Gaddadfi wins?  It's not completely clear where Barack Obama stands, and he's too busy playing soccer in Brazil with his kids to tell the American People much.



 

The Arab League seems to be flip flopping.  They were for it before they were against it and (as of this moment) are for it again. If they really are for it, their actions aren't showing it.  Not a single aircraft from one of the Arab Nations supporting the No Fly Zone has been involved in the air strikes or even patrolling the Air Space now that the US and Europeon Nations have secured the airspace and disabled Gaddadfi's air defenses.  One of the big reasons the resolution passed the UN is because the Arab League supported wanted it, so why aren't they helping?  If this backfires it wouldn't be hard for them to spin it into western aggression against Islam, something they can't do if they play an active role.

Then there is Barack Obama position on the entire affair.  Since when does a President of the United States tell the world he's committed American forces by traveling to another country. to make the announcement?  He knew when he left for Brazil on Friday he was about to put the lives of American Service Members in jepordy.  For all practicle purposes he left the explainations up to the media.   The War Powers Act requires the President to explain a military action to Congress within 48 hours of involving US troops.  The president managed to avoid that detail because he was in Brazil, on Thursday he sent aids to explain the situation to Congressional Leaders..

Dick Luger R-Ind pointed out that unlike Bush, before the Iraq Invasion, Obama had not even asked Congress for a resloution supporting the action.  In fact Obama seems to have decided the UN Resolution supercedes the need for Congressional Approval

At least six countries in the Middle East are going through un precidented civil unrest at the moment, long time dictators and royal famillies don't give up pwer willingly, with that in mind, how dangerous is this precideent?