The Cape Times has published former anti-apartheid activist Benjamin Pogrund's criticism of the Goldstone report. Its for subscribers only at the Cape Times, but you can view the full article at the UN Watch blog: U.N. Goldstone Report Slammed by Anti-Apartheid Activist
Pogrund believes that Goldstone has acted only with the best of intentions throughout his life and, like us, cannot fathom how Goldstone could have been so duped by the UN Human Rights Council's extreme malevolence - at the expense of all other victims of abuse in the world - towards Israel.
Furthermore, Pogrund questions Goldstone's "own good sense" for his decision to allow Christine Chinkin to remain a member of his four person mission, even though she had publicly signed a letter accusing Israel of war crimes before any "investigations" had even started.
Read it all.
yes I'm sure Barak will give the IDF a fair trial.
Posted by: RF2 | October 07, 2009 at 14:58
Everyone,s missing the point here.Israel uprooted all it,s settlements in the Gaza strip in 2005 and left for good.Since there was no Israeli presence in the area what was Hamas hoping to achieve by sending 1000,s of Qasssams etc. into Sderot and Ashkelon,ter
rorising the civilian population .Let Justice Goldstone and his bosses at the UN answer this if they aren,t to busy wrist slapping Hamas?
Posted by: the Hebrew prophet | October 08, 2009 at 15:05