Just days before Israel is expected to release its own report on the
January 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli Information Minister
Yuli Edelstein declared that the UN report on the war, and every other
report since the war ended, “are simply a type of anti-Semitism.”
Israeli Information Minister Yuli EdelsteinThe UN’s report, also
known as the Goldstone Report, successfully moved through the UN Human
Rights Council in October. It faulted both Israel’s government and the
Hamas government in the Gaza Strip for the massive civilian poll in the
war.
Israel warned that any report which didn’t put the blame 100 percent
on Hamas was inherently biased and declared that it showed the
hypocrisy of the entire planet and a global bias against Israel. The US
House of Representatives also condemned the report as “unfair” and
called for the president to block its consideration.
But Minister Edelstein took the usual complaints of anti-semitism
against the report to a new level, saying that there was a clear
connection between criticism of the Israeli war effort and the Holocaust
and that it amounted to just the latest conflict in “the battle against
global anti-Semitism.”
Though Israel’s government has repeatedly canceled efforts to
investigates the military’s actions in the war, their own report is said
to be completed and will … >>>
