Nevermind....

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Everyone makes mistakes.  The question becomes what you do about them when you discover them.  The fallout from a recent mistake may be very telling.

On Friday, Richard Goldstone posted an editorial in the Washington Post about the Goldstone Report.  The report was issued at the request of the UN after a fact finding study of the war between Israel and Gaza after numerous rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza. 

Mr. Goldstone points out that his report found evidence of potential war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.  He states that the crimes committed by Hamas were intentional--their rockets were aimed indiscriminately at civilian targets.

The article reports:

"The allegations of intentionality by Israel were based on the deaths of and injuries to civilians in situations where our fact-finding mission had no evidence on which to draw any other reasonable conclusion. While the investigations published by the Israeli military and recognized in the U.N. committee's report have established the validity of some incidents that we investigated in cases involving individual soldiers, they also indicate that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy."

Mr. Goldstone further states:

"As I indicated from the very beginning, I would have welcomed Israel's cooperation. The purpose of the Goldstone Report was never to prove a foregone conclusion against Israel. I insisted on changing the original mandate adopted by the Human Rights Council, which was skewed against Israel. I have always been clear that Israel, like any other sovereign nation, has the right and obligation to defend itself and its citizens against attacks from abroad and within. Something that has not been recognized often enough is the fact that our report marked the first time illegal acts of terrorism from Hamas were being investigated and condemned by the United Nations. I had hoped that our inquiry into all aspects of the Gaza conflict would begin a new era of evenhandedness at the U.N. Human Rights Council, whose history of bias against Israel cannot be doubted."

The bottom line here is very simple.  Israel went into Gaza to stop the firing of rockets on civilian populations.  Hamas used civilians as human shields, which they have historically done, and innocent people were killed.  The UN Human Rights Council is not populated by free democracies--a few of its members are China, Russia, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, and Uganda.  Libya is currently suspended from the Council.

Until the UN decides to include the rockets fired at Israel's civilian population on a regular basis in its investigations, there is no way their findings will be valid.  The UN stated as its original goals the promotion of international law and international security, the promotion of economic development, social progress, human rights, and world peace.  It has instead become a forum for some of the nastiest tyrants in the world to achieve legitimacy.  It is time for the United Nations to pack their bags and go home.

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