http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/state-department-gets-awful-close-to-saying-apartheid.html
Mondoweiss
Apr 14, 2011
State Department gets awful close to saying… ‘apartheid’
At the Forward, Josh Nathan-Kazis
The State Department's report on human rights in
An annual report by the U.S. Department of State on human rights in
the West Bank and
among minority populations in
West Bank and
“Principal human rights problems were institutional, legal, and societal
discrimination against Arab citizens, Palestinian residents of the
and the
the segment dealing with
Flash to Jeopardy, "Human rights for $1000, Alex." What is "institutional,
legal and societal discrimination" against a class of people based on their
ethnicity or race? Does the State Department realize what it is saying? Has
anyone else noticed?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/opinion/08iht-edcohen08.html?_r=2&emc=eta1&utm_source=
The Goldstone Chronicles
By Roger Cohen
NY Times Op-Ed: April 7, 2011
Richard Goldstone is an author of the “Goldstone Report,” an investigation of
Now Goldstone’s volte-face appears in the form of a Washington Post op-ed. It’s a bizarre effort. He says his report would have been different “if I had known then what I know now.” The core difference the judge identifies is that he’s now convinced
His shift is attributed to the findings of a follow-up report by a U.N. committee of independent experts chaired by Mary McGowan Davis, a former
McGowan Davis is in fact deeply critical of those Israeli investigations — their tardiness, leniency, lack of transparency and flawed structure. Her report — stymied by lack of access to
On the core issue of intentionality, it declares: “There is no indication that
It says
In short there is a mystery here. Goldstone has moved but the evidence has not, really. That raises the issue of whether the jurist buckled under pressure so unrelenting it almost got him barred from his grandson’s bar mitzvah in
The fact that Hamas has not conducted any investigation into its unconscionable attacks on southern Israel — rockets and mortars still fall — is appalling if unsurprising. Goldstone makes much of this. But it does not change the nature of what
Goldstone, a Jew who takes his Jewishness seriously, has been pilloried by
The charges cascaded: He was a “self-hating Jew,” a hypocrite, a traitor. For Alan Dershowitz he was “despicable.” For Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, Goldstone was up there with the Iranian nuclear program and Hamas rockets as one of
Theories already abound on the Goldstone psyche. It was an emotional meeting last year with the South African Jewish Board of Deputies that set him on the retraction road. No, it was a bruising debate last month at
I don’t know. I asked Goldstone. He responded in an e-mail that he was declining “media interviews.” I do know this: The contortions of his about-face are considerable.
Goldstone expresses confidence that the Israeli officer responsible for the killing of 29 members of the al-Samouni family will be properly punished. Yet the McGowan Davis report is critical of this investigation and notes that “no decision had been made as to whether or not the officer would stand trial.”
It also notes that more than a third of the 36
To “Goldstone”: (Colloq.) To sow confusion, hide a secret, create havoc.
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