...Goldstone said the forum allowed him a chance to explain the substance of his findings “and avoid the personal and ad hominem attacks that have marked the debate on the report to date.’’ Goldstone, a former South African constitutional court justice who is himself a Jew, said much of the criticism of the report was based on false premises...Goldstone said the days he spent in Gaza were full of surprises. He admitted to a bout of nerves at the thought of a Jew roaming around Gaza and said that just before he went he had a nightmare that he had been kidnapped by radicals “and that people in Israel were rejoicing,’’ drawing a laugh from the audience.
But in the end, he said, he was struck by how similar Israelis and Palestinians were in their warmth and their aspirations.
People in Israel were rejoicing at his imaginary distress?
And this is a nasty way of perverting the term "war crimes":-
"War crimes are committed when disproportionate force is used," Goldstone said. "That is the essence of what war crimes are all about, Israel has the absolute right and duty to defend its citizens, I repeat for the third time but in doing so its responses must be proportionate," Goldstone said. "That
is the law and up till now that law has been accepted by Israel."
If you do not view Hamas as a terror group but rather seem to sense that it has justification for "resisting" Israel, then the shooting off of rockets as opposed to Israel's precision-bombing capabilities, well maybe there is, in a sick way of thinking, something disproportionate in Israel's response.
But that is immoral, Judge Goldstone, and ad hominem or not, you are wrong, grossly so.
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