Democracy vs. Terrorism - Congress, UN Vote On Goldstone Israel Gaza Report

Democracy vs. Terrorism - Congress, UN Vote On Goldstone Israel Gaza Report

Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem ---- November 3, 2009 ..... There was never an easier vote to decide upon.

Today the US House of Representatives is expected to vote on a resolution requesting US President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton “to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’.”

What has become known as the UN Goldstone Report, a biased, one sided investigation that refers to the internationally recognized terror group Hamas as "militants in occupied Gaza who have a right to resist", is moving through Washington today and expected to make its next stop at the UN in New York tomorrow.

"Militants" - not terrorists. Militants who have committed a double human rights crime as they launched more than 8,000 terror rockets from Gaza at civilians in Israel while hiding behind civilians in Gaza.

"Occupied" - Israel left Gaza four years ago. In a unilateral peace move, the IDF moved out of the Gaza strip and evacuated her settlements there. Gaza is under the totalitarian rule of Hamas, a puppet Islamic terror organization created and funded - not by Palestinians - but by Iran.

"Resist" - against what? Israel left Gaza. But that was not enough for Hamas which has declared that their goal is the same as Iran, total destruction, to wipe Israel off the map. And Hamas, in their Islamic Jihad are waging a holy war. This is not about land. It is about not being a Muslim. For if you are Jewish or Christian you then qualify for the title of infidel and you should be murdered.

What is Judge Richard Goldstone smoking?

The man has an impressive past but many are now saying that he took an opportunistic UN role as a stepping stone to become the next Secretary General of the United Nations.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. As such, Israel has become a threat to every Arab nation. Not because Israel has any intention of attacking and taking over Arab land. But because the many oil rich Arab states keep their peoples suppressed - living in poverty, severe unemployment and a total lack of basic human rights. Islamic women are brutally beaten for not obeying their husbands or for questioning their governments. Elections, such as the one recently held in Iran, are hijacked by dictators.

A report by more than 100 intellectuals from Arab countries says poverty, unemployment, authoritarian rule and conflict are undermining freedoms and quality of life for people in the Middle East and North Africa, according to the Arab Human Development Report. The report was the fifth in a series sponsored by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and is independently compiled by scholars from Arab countries.

It gets a little confusing, yes? On one hand the UN states that little freedom and only poverty rule in the Arab states, yet Israel is placed under the microscope by the UN for defending the civilians of Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod from 8,000 unprovoked Hamas missile attacks!

So again, we ask why is the UN Goldstone Report so important?
Because it simply diverts attention from the negative domestic issues in Iran, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia and many other Arab oil rich states.

And many see through the transparency here including former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, who has stated: "I am afraid the resolution is not balanced. This is unfortunately a practice by the Council: adopting resolutions guided not by human rights but by politics. This is very regrettable."

Israel states that it is "appalled and disappointed" by the UN Goldstone Report which was published on September 15, 2009 by the UN Gaza Fact Finding Mission. "The UN Goldstone Report effectively ignores Israel right of self defense, makes unsubstantiated claims about its intent and challenges Israel's democratic values and rule of law."

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said: "At the same time the UN Goldstone Report all but ignores the deliberate strategy of the internationally recognized terror group Hamas of operating within and behind a civilian population and turning densely populated areas into an arena of battle. By turning a blind eye to such tactics it effectively rewards them."

"The UN Goldstone Report barely disguises its goal of instigating a political campaign against Israel, and in its recommendations seeks to involve the Security Council, the UN General Assembly the International Criminal Court, the Human Rights Council, and the entire international community in such a campaign."

Israel President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres responded to the UN Goldstone Report saying that it "makes a mockery of history." That the UN Goldstone Israel Gaza War Crimes Report "does not distinguish between the aggressor and the defender."

And respected Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz states: "The report gives de facto legitimacy to terrorist initiatives and ignores the obligation and right of every country to defend itself, as the UN itself had clearly stated. The effect, if not the intent, of the UN Goldstone report will be to keep Israel troops in the West Bank longer."

Will the passing of one the greatest blood libels against the Jewish people - the UN Goldstone Report - aid in the peace process or help destroy it? Will the passing of the Goldstone Report deter terrorists from striking at civilians living in democracies or will it encourage more attacks?

Col. Richard Kemp speaking on the second day of an emergency “special session” at the UN called by pro-Palestinian governments aimed at accusing Israel of war crimes during the operation, stated: "In its offensive against Hamas in Gaza last winter, the Israel army did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” Kemp is the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan.

Does anyone really care what Kemp has to say? What the truth, the facts really are?

It's simply a matter of democracy vs. terrorism. If we give Islamic terrorists the right to strike at towns and cities in Israel, to encourage the use of missiles against Tel Aviv, it will just be a matter of time until New York, London and Paris are struck again by more "militant" bombs by those who have a "right to resist".

Wasn't 9/11, the London terror bombings, the terror attacks in Madrid, Turkey, Bali and Egypt enough?

How much more blood will the leaders of Arab oil rich states go for in their PR campaigns against Israel in order to conceal their own severe contempt of basic human rights and political justice to remain in power?

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