Sunday, October 18, 2009

Goldstone Report and Double Standards

This past Friday, the Goldstone Report, a report created by the UN Council of Human Rights (UNCHR) to denounce Israel for its "war crimes" during Operation Cast Lead back at the end of 2008/beginning of 2009, was approved.  As if it were a surprise, this report, written up by a self-loathing South African Jew, only condemns Israel. 

The United Nations is notoriously anti-Israel, which is just a PC way of saying that its anti-Semitism is now playing in the global arena.  Case in point: Out of the 1,860 UN Security council resolutions, 221 of those resolutions are against Israel--that's approximately 12%!  The "Palestinians," the actual terrorists in this whole ordeal, guess how many UN resolutions are against Palestinian terrorism?  You guessed it....0! 

The Goldstone Report is nothing other than another example of UN-based anti-Semitism.  I cannot think of another nation in the entire world who gets fallaciously paraded around in the international arena for self-defense, even though Article 51 of the UN charter gives a nation the right to self-defense.  Hamas, which is not even a sovereign nation-state to begin with, does not even receive an iota of criticism.  Israel withdrew from Gaza back in 2005, and prior to the war, did not interfere in Gazan affairs.  The point where tensions rose was when Israel signed a cease-fire agreement with Hamas.  During this time period, Hamas still managed to fire rockets.  I do not care if they fired less than "normal," the point is that they went back on their word.  If Hamas cannot even hold back during a cease-fire, why do you think these people want peace with Israel, especially when the Hamas Charter (see Preamble and Articles 7, 32) calls to get rid of the Zionist entity? 

Whether or not Operation Cast Lead was as successful as one would have hoped, there is no doubt in my mind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an issue that is essentially "black and white."  Charles Krauthammer so eloquently points out that Israel is tactful in minimizing civilian causualties, whereas Hamas targets Israeli civilians while using their own civilians as human shields.  There is no moral equivalence between the two uses of force, and anyone who suggests as such is severly and morally misguided.  Israel is the only democratic state in the Middle East.  Its freedoms, economic growth, and prosperity are unprecedented in that region of the world.  They only want to live in peace, and they have proved this time and again with multiple "land-for-peace" agreements, which, time and again the Palestinians break.  Hamas, on the other hand, is a terrorist organization whose purpose is to make Islam supreme and annihalate the Zionist enemy while using rockets to cowardly target civilians.  The two are not the same.  The way Hamas conducts themselves is inexcusable, and those in the West that support these actions by approving of the Goldman Report should feel ashamed. 

A point that I will bring up time and again with this issue, which, at the rate it's going, will continue into my old age, is that until Hamas and Fatah accept the existence of Israel, this violence will not stop.  Israel needs to continue to stand up for itself, and I think Bibi did a good job defending Israel in front of the UN council in September 24 when he denounced the UN for its bias. 

To end this diatribe, what I would like to say regarding Washington is that this report is another failure for the Obama administration.  The President made a speech in Cairo back in June, hoping that diplomatic efforts to appease the Muslim entities and speak highly of Islam would help stop the villification of Israel.  The vote last week to approve the Goldman Report just goes to show that a deep hatred for Jews will always supercede the smooth-sounding oration skills of President Obama.

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