The Gaza war between Israel and the Hamas controlled Gaza had a terrible consequences to the people of both sides. Never the less Israel took most of the blame for it. Than came the Goldstone report who gave it an official UN seal and pointed out the Israel has conducted war crimes against the people of Gaza. The Israeli government tried unsuccessfully to put the blame on Hamas for shooting for years missles directd on town across the border with Gaza and on the same time, for using civilian population as a human shield.
Israel accused and explained but nobody really listened, they were too busy blaming Israel. It appeared that is was a lot more convenient to the world to put the blame on the Jewish state. Than one day (which is actually today), came up the same man who was the chairman of the infamous report called under his name and said that if he knew than what he know now about the Gaza war, his report would be different. His name was Richard Goldstone.
"Israeli evidence that has emerged since publication of our report doesn’t negate the tragic loss of civilian life, I regret that our fact-finding mission did not have such evidence explaining the circumstances in which we said civilians in Gaza were targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about intentionality and war crimes."
It was too little too late, the damage was done and most of you would probably never hear about it, unless you are subscribed to this fantastic blog (thanks you!) but that's how things are. Nobody really cares, unless Israel kills somebody.
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| Comparison between Israel and the Nazis. |
Benjamin Netanyahu the Israeli prime minister in occasion or two got to the core of the problem, to why is it that the world is so quick to criticize the Jewish state and why even among countries who suffered the atrocities of extreme Islamic terrorism people are more likely to identify themselves with the enemies of Israel. Netanyahu is also discussing why Israel is compared so often to the Nazis and the pathologies of the Christian west world in their view of the modern Jewish state in light of the past.
In an interview at HBO from 2006 Bill Maher tells Netanyahu: "It's always amaze me that among all the nations in the world, the one that gets compared to the Nazis the most, in the world press is actually Israel." Watch his answer, starting minute 10:00.
