Indeed it does. "Editorial: The U.N. sides with terrorists," from the Washington Times, October 19 (thanks to Choi):
[...] On a factual level, the Goldstone report is notoriously flawed and one-sided. Much of the 575-page document was cut and pasted from unsubstantiated and suspect reports from nongovernmental organizations with openly anti-Israel sentiments. Some of the "witnesses" interviewed by the mission were disguised Hamas officials. The fact that Hamas loves the report should raise eyebrows about its contents.Even more troublingly is the report's fatal moral blind spot, which is ignoring the differences between Israel, a sovereign state, and Hamas, a terrorist organization. The Israeli armed forces are professional organizations governed by strict policies to limit civilian deaths during the conduct of war. Israel is a signatory to the Geneva conventions and respects the rights of noncombatants. After the conflict, Israel conducted some 100 investigations into reports of misconduct by its troops.
Killing civilians is central to Hamas' military doctrine. Hamas launched 7,000 rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli cities between the pullout from Gaza in 2005 and 2009. During the ground fighting in Gaza, Hamas routinely used mosques, schools and hospitals as military sites and employed civilians as human shields. Hamas exploited the chaos of the conflict to round up Palestinian political opponents, some of whom were crippled with shots to the legs, while others were reportedly executed.
There is no moral equality between Hamas and Israel any more than there is between al Qaeda and the United States. Yet under the Goldstone logic, terrorists and sovereign states are identical. The incidental, unintentional civilian deaths Israel caused during the Gaza conflict are condemned as war crimes; the widespread and intentional Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians are basically ignored. The Goldstone model makes it impossible for civilized states to strike effectively against the world's barbarians who are fighting a shadow war against decency that views innocent noncombatants as both legitimate targets and useful shields.
The United States voted against the report and will presumably use its veto power if action is taken before the Security Council....
Really? One would hope so, but in this age of Obama, when the U.S. cosponsors (with Egypt) an anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations, one cannot be so sure.
Well, what do you expect? Israel committed the unpardonable sin of shooting to rags "progressive" Soviet hardware during the Cold War and now is a bone in the throat of radical Islam. It's bound to have enemies and people on the Left who'd rather see their women stoned than ever say anything nice about a counter-revolutionary country.
The countries that supported the initial resolution were Cuba, Egypt and Pakistan--two Muslim states and a communist dictatorship.
According to the UN Resolution, the Human Rights Council:
Decides to dispatch an urgent independent international fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the President, to investigate all violations of international human rights law and International Humanitarian Law by the occupying Power, Israel, against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, due to the current aggression, and calls upon Israel not to obstruct the process of investigation and to fully cooperate with the mission
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"Occupying Power"--that would be Israel--despite the fact that Israel has not occupied Gaza since 2005. Also note--the report has not mandate to investigate Hamas crimes at all.
Apparently, this one-sidedness initially bothered Judge Goldstone--but somehow, he overcame his scruples after speaking with then-president of the Council, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, of not-so-democratic Nigeria, and put together the hit-piece anyway.
The other 30 countries that approved the measure are: Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Djibouti, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, Zambi--a deceptively wide range of countries that can actually be divided into two groups:
15 of the 33 affirmative votes were from members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the remainder include countries with disgraceful human rights records like Angola, Cuba, China, Nigeria, the Russian Federation and Nicaragua.
Yes, the only surprising bit was the last sentence. America's first affirmative action president probably agrees with the report, or at least its purpose, to discredit Israel.
"The other 30 countries that approved the measure are: Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Djibouti, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, Zambi--"
A PARADE OF SHAME!
Burkina Faso(previously "Upper Volta")DARES to JUDGE ISRAEL!?
ARGENTINA, Pro-Nazi during "The Third Reich", HAVEN for Nazi WAR CRIMINALS, including EICHMANN and MENGELE!
Repository of NAZI LOOT STOLEN FROM NAZI GERMANY'S VICTIMS!
Iranian Revolutionary Guards MAJOR South American BASE,as it once was for the NAZI SS!
Scene of Iran Revolutionary Guards' ACTS OF WAR first BOMBING the Israeli Embassy in the early 1990's FOLLOWED by the Bombing of the Jewish Community Center, both in Buenes Aires.
INDIA?
What did they NOT LEARN From their History through the centuries?
Kashmir? What Kashmir?
Mumbai -November 2008?
"Nothing to see or REMEMBER?
It's the "Poor Palestinians Victims"(LOL)- yeah,VICTIMS OF THEMSELVES& THEIR MUSLIM BROTHERS.
THE PHILLIPINES?-HOW DARE THEY?
Historically and TODAY(MUSLIM JIHADISTS in Armed JIHAD AGAINST The Phillipines'Freedom?
Credit and Thanks to "Graven Image" for that Lineup of International DISGRACE.
Like you, Nakal, I am flabbergasted that the Philippines and India voted for this evil and grossly unfair Report.
I can only assume that their governments are terrified of what their 'restive' fifth-columnist treacherous subversive Muslim populations might do if they (Philippines and India) were to publicly side with Israel and vote against the Report.
And Russia deserves to cop a withering barrage of scorn, for denying to Israel the same right of self-defence that *they*, the Russians, unhesitating award themselves vis a vis the jihadists in Chechnya.
I am shocked to find gambling in this casino.
The dastardly neoliberal-neocons, Jewish and non-Jewish, are enemies of both Serbia and Israel. The slander, scourging and crucifiction of Serbia has created an evil precedent for similar treatment of Israel. The dastardly neoliberal-neocon Jew Goldstone did evil unto Serbia, and now he does evil unto Israel. Israelis and other Jewish and non-Jewish Zionists: be aware of the neoliberal-neocon enemies among the American, British and French Jews. Learn the truth about Kosovo and unite with the Serbs against the common enemy.
Glory to Zionism! Down with the NNs!
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.