Martin Linton (Battersea) (Lab): ...Members as I consider this to be a vital debate on the Goldstone report and the Government's attitude to it before the vote in the United Nations General Assembly next month and, possibly, in the Security Council the month after.
As one of the few people who have read the report from cover to cover, I regard it as one of the most thorough and thoughtful I have ever read, and a model of even-handedness. I do not say that the original motion before the Human Rights Council was even-handed because it referred only to Israel...
I was one of the first group of MPs to enter Gaza after the military operations in February, along with my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) and the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey). We saw many of the same things and spoke to many of the same people as the mission. Our accounts were listened to, but we did not have the time or resources to cross-check every fact and assess the reliability of every witness. Richard Goldstone did so with meticulous care. I do not know whether to be surprised to discover that all the horrors that we could hardly believe were true.
Martin,
they weren't true.
You were goldstoned.
Martin, go here to read.
(Kippah tip: MP)
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this is testimony to the appalling level of intellectual discourse now afoot in europe. that someone who claims to have read the report cover to cover can claim it's a model of even-handedness is nothing short of breathtaking. it speaks to the insatiable appetite of men like this for dirt on israel. they'll deny themselves no tasty tidbit of moral schadenfreude, no matter how toxic, no matter how poisonous.
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