I’m afraid the Goldstone report is rapidly sliding into the abyss and will never be addressed fully. Once again, the Palestinian people are thrown under the bus by the politicians.

Maybe there’s a battered victim syndrome at work with some of the Palestinian leaders. The Palestinian authorities (and people) are so at the mercy of this hostile occupying power, Israel, who controls the spigot, so to speak, of their basic economic & physical sustenance, their borders, air, water, etc. Living within such a brutal and heartless human experiment, perhaps it should be no surprise that people start selling out their own for that extra crumb.

I find it inspiring, given the daily conditions the Palestinians live under, how most Palestinians retain their dignity and perserverance, etc. Testimony to the enduring human spirit, I guess.

Obama and his administration should be ashamed of themselves for side-lining the Goldstone Report. But again, this is the administration that is ratcheting the heat up in Afghanistan, and how many Afghan civilians have we blown to bits with our super-weapons and unmanned drones (pretty far removed from the symmetrical warfare of the Battle of the Bulge, I’d say)? So much for ‘hope’ and ‘yes, we can’. What a fraud.

I’m also curious as to what “face to face contact” with a Qassam rocket actually consists of. Enlighten us.

Why don’t you drop the non sequiturs. Noting that I didn’t complete my PhD is a such a silly attempt at an insult that has no bearing on this discussion. Or do you believe that the fact that I didn’t complete a PhD in Comparative Literature has any bearing on my grasp of the issues in the Israeli-Arab conflict?