The post-Goldstone committee, tasked with the responsibility of reporting on whether or not Israel is “following” the report’s recommendations, includes at least one appointee who is actively, vehemently, biased against Israel. And oh yeah—he’s the chairman.
The chairman of the UN committee responsible for following up on the findings of the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead acknowledged on Saturday that he had helped prepare an advisory opinion analyzing legal aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian issue in the 1990s, but said he could not recall whether he had done this work on behalf of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
In any other legal case in any democratic nation, an investigator with such conflicts of interest would either recuse himself or be dismissed. But this, of course, is the UN Human Rights Council, and there is no such thing as a biased report on Israel—the subject of 27 anti-Israel resolutions since 2006. And the jurist himself? Why, of course he’s not biased. Just ask him.
In any case, said German jurist Christian Tomuschat, the legal work had been objective, should not be regarded as “a blemish†and did not constitute a reason for him to step down from the Goldstone follow- up panel.
Here is why his bias matters so much for Israel:
The panel is charged with examining the efficiency, independence and professionalism of Israel’s court system and its adherence to internationally accepted standards.
The committee is another step on the road to delegitimizing Israel. This is a widespread attempt by Israel’s enemies to get the international community to declare Israel a rogue nation. They can’t really move forward with their phony “apartheid” claims, but they continue to move forward in courts of international law—even though those courts have no real jurisdiction. It is the court of public opinion that they’re really after, and in most of the world, they’re winning. If the UNHRC declares Israel’s court system unable to investigate its own army, the anti-Israel factions will have won a very big battle.
And Tomuschat already believes that the Israeli court system is flawed. He has said that targeted killing are Israeli “state terrorism” and said that targeted killings are always unjustified.
There is, of course, no mention of this outside the Israeli press. It’s an international human rights investigation, but since this is about an investigator with an anti-Israel bias, it isn’t news. Of course not. It’s just another day in the world of the anti-Israelites.