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The Stuff Will Hit The Fan! Goldstone Report at SC

In the Social Services world it is very common for an abuse victim not to want to put in a formal complaint, nor to challenge their abuser in any way. Abusers frequently let their victims know that if they do report them, it will not go well for the person who is abused. In too many of these cases the abused person ends up dead!

An apartheid population like the Palestinians, impoverished, living in camps, penned in - every description parallels cases of individual women and children we've all read about who have been abused by people who have had power over them.

So the situation is equivalent in many ways, and the UN and the people of the world will see it that way.

It's quite unimaginable for the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, for example, to have participated in this further extortionate and intimidating behavior, buying into Israel's self-serving efforts at intimidating the Palestinians to 'shut up and sit in the back of the bus',  both as a woman, who one would think would be more sensitive to the subject of abuse, and as an American Diplomat appointed to her position by a person, President Obama, who also has expressed on many occasions a fine awareness of how people are made to feel as second class citizens.

I say Hurray to Libya, and won't it be a super thing for the supporters of arrogance, intimidation, exceptionalism and impunity to have their day in court.

This story will not be covered appropriately in our major media, so I suggest sending links to this Haaretz article to people you know