Sunday April 3, 3011

I've Been Thinking:

Richard Goldstone's recant in the Washington Post was "too little too late."

The damage perpetrated by his investigation, report, finding and the suggestions of Israel's human right abuses and crimes against humanity were so devastating that a mere mea culpa could never clean the slate or un-ring the bell.

In his opening paragraph Goldstone writes that "had he known then what he knows now" it would have been a very different report. Well.

Why didn't he know? I certainly did.

The original Goldstone Report will stand and it will continue to be used by anti-Israel activists and parties. His recant is not part of UN protocols, it was merely a public display in the Washington Post.
Even if a Goldstone apology makes it to the front pages of major newspapers around the world it will never counter the damage that was done over the weeks of front page coverage given the Report - coverage that included fabricated myths and stories of Israel directly targeting civilians.

I admire Goldstone's desire to come clean and finally tell the truth. Perhaps now he can sleep better at night, perhaps he is looking to re-write his own obituary, but the damage done to Israel by the Goldstone Report can never be repaired.

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