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.”
The 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 toll 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 aim not at explaining the war so much as attacking the Goldstone Report, and the reports from various human rights groups on which the Goldstone Report was chiefly based.
Are the dead Palestinians "anti-Semitic" also????? You can't hide 1400 dead people!
Israel's greatest enemy is Israel.
Furthermore it's past time to get Israel out of the wallets of the US tax-payers and cut them loose. Israel is not an ally of the USA:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring.
"Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying … is considered career suicide."
Carl Cameron, as quoted in The Spies Who Came In From The Art Sale
"While I agree with you, if I say anything about US geopolitical interests with Israel, I might as well clean off my desk."
Unnamed reporter as quoted in American Media Censorship and Israel
Mr. Edelstein stop hiding behind the poor victims of the Nazi Holocaust! If you feel you must defend the criminal policies of your government, then in the name of whatever amount of humanity, decency, and good that still remains within you, please use some other method to defend these policies.
The only langague that Israel will understand is the US and Europe economical and political sanctions, otherwise everything that will be said is anti – Semitic… The money that US and Europe is giving to Israel its been used to force these governments to do what they been told by Israel.., otherwise everything els is anti.Semitic….?
Really, I didn´t know they had comedians in their government. This one sure made me laugh.
It would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic. An un-biased judge and jury will see it the same way.
Loath BLOODYISRAEL and all it-s supporters including Rahmie MF Emanuel!!!
They've pushed this holocaust thing to absurd levels and have completely disgraced the memory of those who perished in that disaster. The Israelis are true opportunists to the end–no shame, no ethics, and no honor.
You are a schmuck's, Schmuck, no doubt.
Schmuck — what an ass. are you stupid or just one of those Megaphonies
And they wonder why they've been 'persecuted ' for centuries?
An Schmuck always think that others are Schmuck forgetting that he or she is the one who call himself, or hemself a Schmuck. But hey let a Schmuck be a Schmuck.. he or she was born as Schmuck.. He or she likes it to be called and remain as an Schmuck.., is good for the Schmuck.
"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."
Let me guess, pointing out Israeli war crimes is also holocaust denial, right?
These are criminals of the highest order – flaunting their power through such ridiculous comments as those about the Goldstone report.
Americans have to bring down the Israel lobby to save their country…
It-s too late StevieB, BLOODYISRAEL has already taken over the USofBLOODYISRAEL, that-s why we are so hated worldwide………………………………our meddling in the internal affairs of a soverign nation like Haiti,…………………….kidnapping the duly elected president of Haiti, and just like Sr. Bunnypants, dressing them up in NATO uniforms,, but really Boooooooooooooooooohe-s commanded it all. Now, with BLOODYISRAEL one of the very first ALLOWED into Haiti, by the GAG Amerikans, we-re sure to see sub/prime mortages available to the white only.
Watching the thousands of years of the illustrious heritage of the Jewish ethical tradition melting away into nothingness as a result of the occupation of Palestine is a tragedy of the first order, passing almost unmarked.
Let's just say that all non-Jews are anti-Semites and be done with it. Moreover, no matter how much you love Israel, how often you genuflect to Israel, or how much money you send, non-Jews will always and forever be anti-Semites and everything you do or say is an expression of anti-Semitism. There. Happy Yuli and Bibi?