[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]If you enjoy playing newspaper detective, a sore-thumb kind of story, rife with drippingly delicious clues, appeared deep inside Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times.
The path was illumined in neon.
If one of your young children, heaven forbid, ever has become lost in your home, but you have tracked him by following an obvious trail of cookie crumbs, you will recognize the motif here.
Headlined “Leader of Gaza inquiry is known for fairness,” the story purported to be a balanced but unmistakably heroic account of the long life of a South African Jew hired by those ferociously fanatical world leaders in Jew-coddling, the good, ol’ United Nations.
Suddenly convening their own “We Love Jews — Today, at Least” party, the reporters Robyn Dixon and Richard Boudreaux tell us that 70-year-old Richard Goldstone is one of the great Jews of the modern world.
Oops. Something must be up.
You knew there was a pony at the bottom of this pile because the Hamas terrorists thought his recruitment was a capital idea. Fair man. Very fair. Too-true-to-believe-fair. Achingly fair.
All of God’s Children Victims?
Victim-oriented Mr. Goldstone, on the left end of the far left wing, sees the world through a victim’s prism. Or, as the much-missed Larry Eder would say, he is a blue-ribbon Victocrat.
His lengthy resume is littered with “Human Rights” affiliations, a red flag for anyone seeking objective justice, not the jacklegged, left-wing version.
Mr. Goldstone serves on the Board of Directors of several nonprofit organizations that promote “justice,” including Physicians for Human Rights, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the South African Legal Services Foundation, the Brandeis University Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, Human Rights Watch and the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
He served as national president of the National Institute of Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders; chairperson of the Bradlow Foundation, a charitable educational trust; and head of the board of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa.
My golly, Murgatroyd. Bad guys must melt into jelly as he approaches.
In April of 2004, he was appointed by Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the Independent International Committee, chaired by Paul Volcker, to investigate the Iraq Oil for Food program.
You and Saddam remember what a crackerjack smash that was.
It Does Not Get Better
Described as the author of numerous articles on international “humanitarian” law, he has written forewords to several books, including “Martha Minow’s Beyond Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide” and “Mass Violence and War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg,”, which examines the political and legal influence of the Nuremberg trials over contemporary war crime proceedings.
Here is my favorite: He has written about the challenge to individual “human rights” posed by counter-terror measures in R. A. Wilson’s “Human Rights in the 'War on Terror.'”
Boys, when he puts quote marks around War on Terror, you know you are dealing with a stick of far-left dynamite.
Mr. Goldstone has received such prominent awards as the MacArthur Award for International Justice, the International Human Rights Award of the American Bar Assn.and the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights.
In Southern California, he spoke on “Preventing Deadly Conflict” at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series. He lectured on “The Future of International Criminal Justice,” at Tufts University.
Clearly, we are not talking about the ghost of William F. Buckley.
When reading the Goldstone story, your antennae sprang up. The Times never hesitates to plaster Jews — anywhere on the planet, known or not — with textured criticism any time it is leveled by any breathing person.
Somewhere there was an agenda.
Selling Abuse Cheap. Any Takers?
One of the fastest-spreading, most traveled stories in the world bobbed up last month, in all leading newspapers, like a cork in the middle of the ocean, when a 20-year force in Israel’s anti-war movement got the biggest break of his life.
Most newspapers in Israel, like elsewhere in the world, are susceptible to left-wing planted stories. They play it straight and hard so it looks authentic.
Dany Zamir is an angry, weasly type who has been shlepping and shopping anti-Israel war stories since the early1990s without much success.
Until now.
According to his latest gambit, three “anonymous” soldiers — that way “they” could not be traced — testified to Mr. Zamir that during last winter’s 3-week Gaza War, Israeli soldiers randomly blasted, tortured and massacred Gaza “civilians.”
Palestinian leaders could not believe their eyes when they read the “anonymous” accounts in Israeli newspapers. Only if President Obama suddenly resigned would the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times have played a story bigger.
It was the sexiest story in newspapers for days. Imagine those supposed models of morality, Jews who bragged that they had given Gazans advance notices of assaults so innocent people could clear out of the way, doing something as heinous as this.
Upon closer inspection by the government and the army, it turned out to be yet another Zamir fairy tale. He had beautifully scammed his journalistic pigeons again.
Guilty. Now Let’s Go to Trial.
All newspaper notices about the fact-finding were treated the way corrections trraditionally are, buried deep inside the edition.
Comes now the Jew-hating United Nations, which found this Zamir dessert too juicy to let go so easily. Who says not guilty? Not the Muslim-driven U.N.
For Muslims and other enemies of Jews, Mr. Zamir’s Excellent Adventure surpassed winning the lottery, and they are determined to squeeze the breath out of this scenario
The United Nations, which could not make up its mind whether the fatal Lindbergh kidnapping was a crime or just the kid being puckishly playful with his parents, declared in its Muslim-infused wisdom that grossly misbehaving Israeli troops must be punished — regardless of the findings of innocence.
How better for the Jew-hating part of the world to wash its hands of complicity than to hire a noted Jew through the obvious ruse of the screamingly anti-Semitic United Nations “Human Rights Council.”
No windy recitation of “Human Rights Council “abuses of its charter needs to be repeated here.
Two slender facts should suffice:
• The “Human Rights Council” has not been able to find it within the confines of its capacious heart in the last 6 years to even mildly rebuke the Sudan for killing about a half-million in Darfur.
• The “Human Rights Council” has issued 32 condemnations, 26 of them against Israel, which boasts of fielding the most moral army on earth.
All that remains today is to shut the book and sit here silently until Mr. Goldstone and his confreres on the “Human Rights Council” plunge their next dagger into Israel’s heart.
