Comments on: Investigating the investigators

By: Israelinurse

Israelinurse — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:33:29 +0000

Great piece Jonathan.

By: Duvid Crockett, King of DeLancey Street

Duvid Crockett, King of DeLancey Street — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:36:28 +0000

Duvid too agrees with this post and sends his compliments to Jonathan S. and also to Chas.

By: AndrewP

AndrewP — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:57:02 +0000

He also reportedly said “Britain’s foreign policy interests in the Middle East seem to be influenced strongly by Jewish lobbyists”. He implies that British Jews have interests that differ from Britain’s own national interests and that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government is influenced by these considerations.

This is utter nonsense. It is straight out of Walt/Mearsheimer.

The current government has been the most hostile ever to Israel.

- Miliband called Cast Lead ‘disproportionate’
- They began a weapons embargo
- They abstained on Goldstone in UNHRC
- They finance Breaking The Silence with my taxes
- They initiated voluntary labelling of goods from the West Bank produced by Jews
- They are stalling on action to stop the vexatious use of Universal Jurisdiction

By: Jonathan S

Jonathan S — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:47:37 +0000

I think even the IDF figures are considerably higher than 5, and I tend to trust their accuracy in these matters. I believe they even cross reference most of the deaths with individual names and any affiliations with terrorist organisations. But as I have said before many times, especially in asymmetrical warfare situations, counting dead bodies will never reveal any sense of proportionality or occurrence of ‘war crimes’. There are many reasons for the number of and pattern of deaths. This post wasn’t intended to deal with that issue, and therefore doesn’t.

By: Shmuel

Shmuel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:46:14 +0000

Good points JOnathan

By: Chas Newkey-Burden

Chas Newkey-Burden — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:36:30 +0000

good point Chas.

As it says at the top of the page I didn’t write this post. I agree with it though.

I met someone who had heard from a friend’s cousin

You could have been a witness in Goldstone’s report with that proximity to the action!

By: Enough kowtowing to ideas of human rights and all that palava!

Enough kowtowing to ideas of human rights and all that palava! — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:31:35 +0000

good point Chas.

Some idiots are claiming that over 1,000 people were killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli military action but this is nonsense. I met someone who had heard from a friend’s cousin that there were less than 5 deaths in the whole of Gaza. And yet the UN have come out and attempted to smear the Israeli state by suggesting they killed over 1,000 people, including women and children non-combatants! What rubbish!

Instead of the UN and human rights groups focusing on the ‘supposed’ ‘war crimes’ committed by the IDF they should be actually attacking their own staff and getting rid of all the people who find violations of international law. That would be a start.