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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
And you thought Richard Goldstone was a champion in the fight against apartheid. Well, not always. In the most poignant case, Goldstone ruled against the 1986 appeal of a 13-year-old boy who had been sentenced to jail for disrupting school as a protest against apartheid and increasingly draconian "emergency laws" used to preserve order and squelch opposition to the government....
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
There's an expanded presentation of Dore Gold's response to Richard Goldstone earlier this month, with Gold's slides worked into the text, here (20-page pdf document).It's worth checking out.
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Well, here's proof that Richard Goldstone thinks that Dore Gold won their debate at Brandeis earlier this month: Goldstone refuses to debate Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Goldstone's 'home turf' at Fordham University where Goldstone is a guest lecturer. In a conversation with Ynet, Dershowitz claimed that Goldstone preferred to give interviews to...
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it. By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. Posted November 20, 2009 Courtesy Of Alter Net Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of Bill Moyers' must-read interview with Richard Goldstone , who accused both the...
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Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In a perfectly bewildering column Jim Hoagland blames President Obama and Judge Goldstone for undermining Mahmoud Abbas. In It’s up to Netanyahu he writes: No one could accuse President Obama or Judge Richard Goldstone of South Africa of harboring ill will toward the president of the Palestinian Authority. But their separate worthy initiatives have resulted in [...]
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This is from an article by Richard Schnee attacking Richard Goldstone for his participation in the Commission that bears his name. In his book History Upside Down David Meir-Levi relates how Ho Chi Minh’s chief strategist, General Giap, met with Yasser Arafat and his lieutenants and told them that they, like the North Vitenamese, needed to redefine the terms of their struggle....
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Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In a perfectly bewildering column Jim Hoagland blames President Obama and Judge Goldstone for undermining Mahmoud Abbas. In It's up to Netanyahu he writes: No one could accuse President Obama or Judge Richard Goldstone of South Africa of harboring ill will toward the president of the Palestinian Authority. But their separate worthy initiatives have resulted in pushing Abbas into...
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The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, writes: The United Nations investigator whose controversial report recently accused Israel of war crimes once sentenced a 13-year-old boy to prison for protesting South African apartheid. The case was one of several of Richard Goldstone’s (right) questionable and highly criticized rulings during some of apartheid South Africa’s...
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Quick, someone call Richard Goldstone. The IDF reports (and documents) a 900% increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza in 2009 as compared with 2008. The aid is supplied by various international organizations - the International Red Cross, UNRWA, WFP - and is imported into the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing near the Egyptian border."We are investing major resources to enable...
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
WASHINGTON -- Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose hurt and fury over foreign meddling has triggered his threat to quit as Palestinian leader. No one could accuse President Barack Obama or Judge Richard Goldstone...
