Jack in Silver Spring
2009-10-26 15:28:39
David -
I just want to point out what a clever stroke it was for the anti-Israel crew to have Goldstone appointed to investigate Israel for war crimes. For them his appointment was a win-win appointment, and that’s because he’s Jewish (or at leas his mother was). The anti-Israel crew’s calculus would be this way: If he exonerates Israel for war crimes, we can say: What do you expect, he’s Jewish; then we can demand that someone who is neutral do a real investigation — and that would keep the story alive yet longer. On the other hand, if he indicts Israel for war crimes, we can say: You see how heinous Israel is, even a Jew finds her guilty of war crimes.
Goldstone, being the useful idiot he was, played out their second scenario.
