Veteran and respected British journalist Harold Evans wrote a damning indictment of the Goldstone Report in The Guardian’s op-ed section, a venue not normally the preserve of any positive pieces on Israel:
The rockets were war crimes and ought to have been universally condemned as such. While new rockets hit Israel over many months there was no rush by the world’s moralisers – including Britain – to censure Hamas, no urgency as there was in “world opinion” when Israel finally responded. Then Israel was immediately accused of a “disproportionate” response without anyone thinking: “What is a ‘proportionate’ attack against an enemy dedicated to exterminating your people?” A dedication to exterminating all of his? . . .
No doubt there were blunders. A defensive war is still a war with all its suffering and destruction. But Hamas compounded its original war crime with another. It held its own people hostage. It used them as human shields. It regarded every (accidental) death as another bullet in the propaganda war. The Goldstone report won the gold standard of moral equivalence between the killer and the victim. Now Britain wins the silver. Who’s cheering?
Read Harold Evans’ full op-ed here.
While the appearance of a pro-Israel article may have been a surprise, the reaction on The Guardian’s Comment is Free site was not. Regular CiF commenters, not used to seeing articles defending the Jewish state, became enraged and demonstrated the sort of hatred, poison and demonisation that has become all too common on CiF’s message boards.
CiF Watch takes a look at some of the more distasteful comments in what has become a cesspool of anti-Israel hatred:
Rather than comment on the merits of the article, the comment thread instantly became alit with comment after comment dripping with poisonous anti-Israel hatred so much so that it would put your typical Stormfront comment thread to shame.
Read the full blog posting for a selection of comments that prove, once again, just how far The Guardian is prepared to sink.
