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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.