Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Goldstone’s daughter was ‘furious’ with him, Times reports

Philip Weiss (Mondoweiss)
The Goldstone Report and reconsideration won't go away, they are back on the Times front page. A good report by the Times' Ethan Bronner and Jennifer Medina on why Goldstone did it boils down to, He loves Israel and thought he was going to reconcile the two societies, Palestinian and Jewish, through his report but was oh-so wrong about the politics. A man who says he may have been "naive" about the U.N.'s commitment to evenhandedness seems to have been naive about the Jewish response to his document. Then there are the politics of his family, and his daughter who spent 10 years in Israel. Oh my, what was the Zionist judge thinking? And when is a shul going to stage the war inside the Jewish family?
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