House Shames Itself on Goldstone Report
Do you even know what the Goldstone Report is? Ring any bells? Have you heard the Corporate Media even mention it in the last few days? Maybe? Barely? Sorta?
Gotta love how this story is already down the Memory Hole, after barely any mention in the press WHATSOEVER.
Our beloved House of Representatives passed a resolution by a nearly 10-1 margin denouncing The Goldstone Report, which was issued by the United Nations and basically charged the state of Israel with WAR CRIMES in its brutal and inhuman attack on the Gaza Strip last year.
Shame on the House of Representatives, and on the Democratic leadership of the House, for pushing through a resolution once again blindly taking the side of Israeli aggression.I’m referring to the vote on Tuesday, by a lopsided 344-to-36 margin*, to condemn the Goldstone report on Gaza.
That report, by South African jurist Richard Goldstone for the UN, showed that both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes in the lead-up to and during Israel’s invasion of Gaza almost a year ago. (To read the executive summary, click here)
It noted that Israel deliberately attacked civilian targets, and did not take sufficient action to minimize civilian loss of life. For instance, it found that Israel even refused to allow the evacuation of the injured by ambulance.
The report also condemned Hamas for its rocket attacks into Israel, which the report said were designed to create terror.
Even as the U.N. was about to consider the report, the House measure called it “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.” And it urged the Obama Administration to “strongly and unequivocally oppose” any discussion of it at the UN.
This reflexive attitude that Israel can do no wrong is morally bankrupt and exceedingly unhelpful in resolving, in a just manner, the conflict between Israel and Palestinians.
If you were paying any attention whatsoever, it is quite clear that Israel did, in fact, commit war crimes, and in no way can what they did be construed as “defending themselves.”
Yet our House of Representatives blindly sides with this tiny, belligerent, racist war-criminal state.
Why?
I’ve been trying to figure out for a while now why the United States blindly supports the most fascist and peace-threatening regime in the Western World, the state of Israel. What does the United States get out of the deal? It sure as hell isn’t about “Democracy”. The United States doesn’t give a rats ass about Democracy in any other country, no in any way shape or form. Just look at our support of the totalitarian, boiling-people-alive country of Uzbekistan for one despicable instance.
It might be about sharing intelligence and resources for covert activities and blackops, but the U.S. does that with other countries as well, such as Turkey, without such a blatant in-your-face disregard for human rights.