Haaretz is reporting that David Trimble is going to be one of the foreign observers participating in Israel’s inquiry into the Mavi Marmara affair.
Archive for the 'Goldstone Report' Category
Neve Gordon is not happy that Richard Goldstone’s alleged past as a hanging judge in apartheid South Africa has come to light. He calls it “character assassination” and identifies it as part of a “a well-orchestrated delegitimisation campaign by Israel”. At least he doesn’t say that it’s well-funded too…
Here’s the latest video from AJC Reality Check, focusing on how the prejudices of one of Richard Goldstone’s lieutenants, Desmond Travers, played a key role in the distortions which followed in the Goldstone report.
This article by Richard Landes is cross-posted from Augean Stables.
Judge Richard Goldstone spoke yesterday at Yale in the framework of the George Herbert Walker Bush Jr. Lecture in International Relations. Obviously a most prestigious platform for someone of stature, but inappropriate for a figure who is not only highly controversial, but has done much to marginalize himself, as Noah Pollak and Adam Yoffie pointed out the previous day in the Yale Daily.
Continue reading ‘The Coke-Lite of International Law: Goldstone Speaks at Yale’
At 5PM EST today, you can watch a live debate between Judge Richard Goldstone - of Goldstone Commission fame - and Dore Gold, now of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, formerly the Israeli Ambassador to the UN. Their debate comes one day after the House of Representatives dismissed the Goldstone report as a sham and as the UN General Assembly deliberates over a non-binding resolution to refer the report to the Security Council (bit of a foregone conclusion, that one.)
In the meantime, here is an engaging recent email correspondence between Judge Goldstone and Gregg Mashberg, a leading New York lawyer and prominent Israel advocate.
Daniel Levy has his say on the Goldstone report here. What might the title of the piece mean? It’s got quite a new age ring to it so perhaps we shouldn’t expect too much by way of a specific diagnosis of what’s supposed to be ailing Israel. It does, however, reflect a common way of thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a framework which sees everything through the lens of the doings, plans and - above all - the faults of the Israelis. There may be a lot of dead Palestinians as a result of the Gaza Campaign but, it would appear, the priority is for Israelis to heal themselves. And remember now that Levy is not exactly a Likudnik, he’s as dovish as they come and sees himself as a fierce critic of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.
