Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

February 15, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/an-anti-israel-extremist_b_460187.html

An Anti-Israel Extremist Seeks Revenge through the Goldstone Report

(Huffington Post) Alan Dershowitz - When Irish Colonel Travers eagerly accepted an appointment to the Goldstone Commission, he was hell-bent on revenge against Israel based on paranoid fantasies and anti-Israel propaganda. He actually believed, as he put it in a recent interview, that "so many Irish soldiers had been killed by Israelis," with "a significant number who were taken out deliberately and shot (in southern Lebanon)." This is of course complete and utter fantasy. Travers came to the job having already made up his mind not to believe anything Israel said and to accept everything Hamas put forward. Not surprisingly, Travers said that he "rejected...entirely" Israel's claim that its "attack on Gaza was based on self-defense." Commission member Christine Chinken had already declared Israel guilty of war crimes before seeing any evidence. Commission member Hina Jilani had also condemned Israel before her appointment to the group.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: