[Jerusalem Post] Gerald Steinberg - The critics who warned of a "kangaroo court" created to find Israel guilty will claim they were correct. Goldstone's press conference in New York on Tuesday and the report's recommendations constitute another step in the Durban strategy, in which the language of human rights and international law is misused as weapons in the political war to isolate and demonize Israel. The evidence, as Goldstone stated, was based almost entirely on unverifiable Palestinian claims and publications from politicized pro-Palestinian NGOs. Goldstone's report is full of statements of "fact" that defy belief and come without any evidentiary source. For instance, contrary to numerous contemporary reports in media outlets like the New York Times, the report denies that Hamas fighters dressed in civilian clothing hid in hospital facilities and used ambulances to transport combatants.
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