[Miami Herald] Editorial - Rarely has the U.S. had as much good reason to exercise its veto in the UN Security Council as it will have when a controversial report condemning Israel for its campaign against Gaza terrorists comes up for consideration. The report, issued by a commission headed by jurist Richard Goldstone, has been denounced by the Israeli government and criticized by U.S. officials as deeply flawed and unbalanced. It accuses Israel of possible war crimes in the defensive action launched last December. The Israeli raid followed eight years of relentless rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups. Israel wisely refused to cooperate with the Goldstone panel because it was tainted from the start as a creation of the outrageously biased UN Human Rights Council, based in Geneva. The report is being used as a cudgel against Israel. In an effort to put Israel in the dock, Libya is sponsoring the move to debate the Goldstone report before the Security Council. The role of Libya in this affair, one of the world's worst human rights abusers, provides another good reason for the U.S. to exercise its veto and put an end to a wretched charade.
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