Since Richard Goldstone published his semi-apology for the United Nations Goldstone Report on Gaza, there have been lots of suggestions about what ought to happen next with Goldstone and his voluminous, pro-terrorist, anti-Israel 2009 report. The UN ought to retract it, but won’t. Goldstone wrote that if he’d known then what he knows now, “The Goldstone Report would have been a different document” — but it isn’t. And in testimony last week to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, professed a desire to just have the whole thing go away: “We would, frankly, as I said, like to see this entire Goldstone proposition disappear.”
But it’s not disappearing. In the court of world opinion, the Goldstone Report gave a big boost to the Iranian-backed rocket-launching Palestinian terrorists who rule Gaza, and did tremendous harm to the UN’s favorite target — Israel. When Goldstone presented his findings to the UN Human Rights Council, publicly denigrating as “pusillanimous” the Israeli conduct that with hindsight he now finds reasonable, he set in motion various UN follow-ups configured to hammer away yet further at Israel. Three of his former fellow UN panelists are now clamoring for that hammering to continue.
Goldstone did not create the bigotry, rigged inquiry processes, and double standards that bedevil the UN. But he led the Gaza inquiry and give his name to a report that amplifies some of the most vile aspects of the world’s leading multilateral institution (even he refers to his Gaza product as the Goldstone Report, though its official title is “Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict”).
What’s to be done? Well, Goldstone has, in his way, set a standard so abysmal that it might actually be turned to good use. If he really wants to make amends, perhaps he’d be willing to lend his name to establish a rating system for bigotry at the UN? It could be called the Goldstone Standard, employed as a sort of reverse Michelin Guide to UN bias (no offense meant here to the Michelin Guide).
How could this work? Instead of the usual hunt for adjectives to describe the UN’s outpouring of anti-democratic, anti-American, and, especially, anti-Semitic reports, resolutions, statements, conference programs, and so forth, how about quantifying this prejudice into units, called Goldstones. From there, just assign any relevant UN product a Goldstone rating, say, from one Goldstone to five — with one being relatively run-of-the-mill UN anti-Semitism, and five being such paragons of prejudice as the Goldstone Report itself.
Richard Goldstone has a personal problem which going by criticism of an earlier commission he headed it seems that he likes to hunt with the hounds and run with the foxes.
Here’s
“Goldstone damaged South Africa as well” which might add some light on the man.
On page 9 of this SA Jewish Report pdf document Dr. Anthea Jeffery, who is head of special research at the South African Institute of Race Relations, criticizes his handling of evidence regarding violence:
What few seem to realise, how-ever, is that the Goldstone Report
on Gaza is reminiscent of what the Goldstone Commission did in
South Africa in the early 1990s.
Yes a very good piece in the Jewish Report (page 10), including the words that Goldstone: ” . . overlooked the ANC’s declared ‘dual strategy’ of talking peace while waging war . . ”
He is not a stupid man. I am certain he is extremely clever. So he knows what he was achieving and the only conclusion is that what was achieved was his intention.
I think one very seriously has to ask why he did that in both these instances? Why he wanted the results that he achieved.
They were not the acts of a stupid man.
This is a masterpiece of sardonic wit! I can only hope that Americans respond by removing all funding from the UN–and do leave that noxious entity…
Please know that our taxpayer dollars fund the United Nations, who paid Richard Goldstone and his fellows…
Who is this twit? Where did he come from? Who promoted him to the UN? Why is he not cleaning out grease traps at restaurants?
It would be a good, additional way for Goldstone to go down in the infamy that doubtless awaits him.
That’s what I am constantly wondering… why does the US still fund this racist party headquarters??