Goldstone Seeks Atonement in the New York Times
November 1, 2011 10:54 by Simon Plosker
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement is nearly a month past but one person appears to be seeking atonement for his prior sins. Judge Richard Goldstone of the infamous Goldstone Report previously published an op-ed in the Washington Post backtracking on the most serious allegations contained in his report.
Now, in a New York Times op-ed, Goldstone takes on the Israel apartheid slander:
One particularly pernicious and enduring canard that is surfacing again is that Israel pursues “apartheid” policies. …
While “apartheid” can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations. …
In Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute: “Inhumane acts … committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.”
Can Richard Goldstone be forgiven for his role in one of the worst examples of delegitimization of Israel in recent history? Absolutely not. But using his high profile to combat the very delegitimization that he helped spread is the least he can do to atone for his sins.
Read the full New York Times op-ed here.
Bella Center
3:15 pm
Nov 01, 2011
Notice how the Times does an ‘on the one hand…on the other’ by also simultaneously running (at least on its website) Didi Rieder’s “In Israel, Press Freedom is Under Attack.” Aha! Perhaps they hope that the Rieder piece will cancel out the force of Goldstone’s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/in-israel-press-freedom-is-under-attack.html?ref=opinion
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steven L
5:53 am
Dec 27, 2012
Mr. Goldstone was relevant to the anti-Israel international community when he was spiting on Israel.
Now he is irrelevant. Some Jews are among the worst enemies of the Jews.
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M Boxenbaum
9:27 pm
Jan 03, 2013
“A lie is half way round the world before the truth can get out of bed in the morning.”
He is not forgiven. Speaking or writing from a bully pulpit before thinking on a matter so important that it further arms the enemy is unforgivable. It is treason!
A recanting Goldstone becomes immediately irrelevant to the enemy. The damage is done.
Look at Dr James Hansen of NASA “a father of global warming” (GW) who made dumb claims in 1988. He recanted in 2000..no one cared or stopped Dr Lovelock recently did the same. His false GW info is till in use As is David Viner’s who predicted snow would dissapear by now. lol
When we do not challenge boldly we are set up.
No. I do not forgive him
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veryneat
4:35 pm
Jan 09, 2013
What exactly in this article did Goldstone not know when he wrote his infamous libel?
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