(Telegraph-UK) Michael Weiss - Goldstone's mea culpa should be welcomed for its better-late-than-never candor, but the damage his notorious report has caused Israel on the world stage cannot be exaggerated. For two years, this document has served as a byword for rogue statehood, a cudgel taken up not only by rabid anti-Zionists but by seemingly dispassionate observers of human rights and international law to further Israel's delegitimization. Israel's reasonable acts of self-defense have been categorically dismissed as government "spin" because of the taint that Goldstone lent to its military motives.
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