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“U.n.'s Goldstone Report is Magna Carta for Terrorists”
by Daily News Los Angeles - Rabbi Marvin Hier and Rabbi Abraham Cooper
October 24th, 2009

THE climactic battle in the war against global terror has been fought - and the civilized world lost. Invoking the newly minted Goldstone fact-finding report investigating the Jewish state for its recent military action against the 8,000 rockets from Gaza's "Hamastan," the U.N.'s "Human Rights" Council has now voted for surrender.

The vote was 25 to 6, with 11 abstentions, to condemn Israel for "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity." The U.S. - which recently rejoined the council in hopes of "reforming" it - voted no, as did Italy, Ukraine and the Netherlands. The U.K. and France boycotted the vote entirely.

Not even in classic Hollywood westerns was the good guy ever expected to fight strictly according to Marquis of Queensbury Rules when the innocent heroine's fate was at stake. But today, there's been a role reversal where, even in life-and-death wartime battles, the good guys are being held up to impossible standards of morality while the bad guys like Hamas in Gaza brazenly take civilians hostage as human shields and escape U.N. condemnation.

We seem to have forgotten that war is something you engage in when you are at wit's end and there are no other solutions. It is not like attending a boxing match where there's a referee to keep both combatants from hitting below the belt

Any veteran will tell you that war is hell, especially when your opponents are die-hard fanatics who hate life and can't wait to settle down in paradise with their 72 virgins.

With this insidious vote, the U.N. Human Rights Council has surrendered the civilized world to these practitioners of evil and delivered this message to Osama bin Laden: "Come out of your cave, all-compassionate Osama, architect of the 9-11 attacks, and give us the best terms we losers can hope for."

What the members of the council chose to forget were the wise words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who once observed that even the hallowed U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights "is not a suicide pact." He gained this perspective while serving as chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. It was there where Jackson brought to justice "the aggressor nations" that destroyed the peace of the world and unleashed the Holocaust.

Now, Judge Richard Goldstone has perverted the judgments at Nuremberg and has put into place instead a dangerous, false morality that renders the struggle against nonstate terrorists hopeless and unwinnable.

It didn't have to go that way in Geneva. Certainly, many member states in the hall from Russia to Kuwait to Pakistan, China and Afghanistan were squirming in their seats when the one person in the room who has actually fought terrorists in Afghanistan, Col. Richard Kemp, called their bluff and said this to them at the debate:

"Based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: during Operation Cast Lead the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare... The IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls. Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties... War is chaos and full of mistakes... but mistakes are not war crimes."

Goldstone himself seems to have finally begun to realize what genie he let out of the U.N. bottle. He expressed his shock that the 36 paragraph UNHRC resolution deleted any and all criticism of Hamas. Too late, Judge - you have authored what may become the Magna Carta of al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Hamas and of generations of terrorists yet unborn.

During the 1990s, Goldstone fleetingly met with Simon Wiesenthal, who lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust. One can only imagine the horror of the famed Nazi hunter, were he still alive, at Goldstone's lending his name to a document that implicitly would equate Gen. Eisenhower with Hitler and Bibi Netanyahu with Khalid Meshaal. Wiesenthal understood in his bones that there are no moral equivalents between those who are forced to send their young people to fight terrorists and those who look at every newborn as a potential suicide bomber.

The purpose of today's global infrastructure of NGOs and humanitarian law is to uphold human rights, not render nation states powerless before the terrorist beast. We all yearn for the prophesied day when "justice (shall) roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream." But until then, we should shred Goldstone's Folly and re-introduce all member states to the lessons and warnings of Nuremberg.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13