[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/nonfiction
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:44:10 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "Goldstone Recants: Richard Goldstone
Renews Israel's License to Kill" by Norman G. Finkelstein.
It's been read and spell-checked. Headers stripped, page numbers present,
text fonts adjusted.
It's a short one--only 41 pages.
Description:
ON APRIL 1 2011, in the pages of the Washington Post, the international
jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the
massive evidence assembled in the United Nations' report carrying his name
that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against
humanity in Gaza during its 2008-9 invasion. Israel was jubilant.
"Everything that we said proved to be true," Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu crowed. "We always said that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is a
moral army that acted according to international law," Defense Minister Ehud
Barak declared. "We had no doubt that the truth would come out eventually,"
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proclaimed. The Obama administration used
the occasion of Goldstone's recantation to affirm that Israel had not
"engaged in any war crimes" during the Gaza assault while the U.S. Senate
unanimously called on the United Nations to "rescind" the Goldstone Report.
Some commentators have endeavored to prove by parsing his words that
Goldstone did not actually recant. While there are grounds for making this
argument on a technical basis, such a rhetorical strategy will not wash.
Goldstone is a distinguished jurist. He knows how to use precise language.
If he did not want to sever his connection with the Report he could simply
have said "I am not recanting my original report by which I still stand." He
must have known exactly how his words would be spun and it is this
fallout-not his parsed words-that we must now confront.
Deborah
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