The Real Story behind Israel’s Invasion of Gaza On September 15th 2009, the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission led by Justice Richard Goldstone released its report (executive summary can be found here) on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The report concluded that there exists strong evidence indicating serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by [...]
UN vote could ‘kill the Goldstone process’
by RAINman on 01. Oct, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Ma’an - 30/09/2010 GENEVA — A draft resolution backed by the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations Human Rights Council could undermine the recommendations of a UN-sponsored inquiry into Israel’s assault on Gaza, experts say. Ma’an has learned that the draft chooses not to pursue accountability for crimes committed during Israel’s 2008-2009 offensive on the [...]
ALLISTER SPARKS: A rabbi’s pain in choosing between truth and ethnic loyalty
by RAINman on 04. Aug, 2010 in Opinion
The avalanche of personal abuse hurled at me for suggesting that Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein owed Judge Richard Goldstein an apology now that Israel had officially confirmed several of his comission’s most serious findings about the Gaza War was no surprise. BUSINESS DAY – 4 August 2010 The avalanche of personal abuse hurled at me [...]
Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
by RAINman on 03. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Independent - 31 July 2010 The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary [...]
DAVID SAKS: Gaza conflict — Does Goldstone even realise the damage he has done?
by RAINman on 27. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links
(Saks is associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.) Business Day South Africa – 26 July 2010 HAVE the recent findings of an Israeli military investigation vindicated those of last year’s United Nations (UN) factfinding mission into the Gaza conflict? If so, should the South African Jewish communal leadership now “beg forgiveness” of [...]
Allister Sparks*: The chief rabbi owes Judge Goldstone an abject apology
by RAINman on 22. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links
Business Day Johannesburg Published: 2010/07/21 AFTER carrying out its own investigation into last year’s Gaza War, the Israeli military has finally confirmed several of the most serious incidents committed by its troops in that 22-day assault, which a United Nations commission of inquiry, headed by our own Judge Richard Goldstone, reported on last September. In [...]
Brand Israel –What Justice Goldstone Learned the Hard Way
by RAINman on 22. May, 2010 in Opinion
By NEVE GORDON CounterPunch May 21 – 23, 2010 Richard Goldstone has learned a lesson or two in the past year. Ever since Goldstone, a self-proclaimed Jewish Zionist South African judge, authored a UN report charging Israel (and Hamas) with war crimes, he has been subjected to a well-orchestrated delegitimization campaign. Two weeks ago, new [...]
Chomsky denied entry as Goldstone remains under attack
by RAINman on 20. May, 2010 in Analysis
Mel Frykberg – The Electronic Intifada – 19 May 2010 RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the occupied West Bank, he joined a chorus of Jewish intellectuals savaged by the Israeli government for outspoken criticism. Chomsky, a strong proponent of Palestinian [...]
Video: Debate On The U.N. Gaza War Crimes Report between Justice Richard Goldstone and former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold
by RAINman on 17. Nov, 2009 in Videos NEW!!!
Packed house hears Justice Richard Goldstone, whose name has become synonymous with the U.N. Human Rights Council’s fact-finding report on the conflict, engage in a public forum with a senior Israeli political figure over widespread criticism of the report among supporters of Israel. “Let me be absolutely clear,” Goldstone said. “International law allows, and indeed [...]
US State Dept spokesman misrepresents Goldstone Report
by RAINman on 28. Oct, 2009 in General
by Saed Bannoura IMEMC News – 26 October 2009 In a press briefing at the US Department of State Friday, spokesperson Ian Kelly told reporters that the US government had a problem with the UN Human Rights Commission Report authored by Richard Goldstone because, according to Kelly, the report gives “a one-sided mandate to look [...]
Rabbi Michael Lerner: A war crime whitewash
by RAINman on 22. Oct, 2009 in Opinion
The global choir of ethical cretins who condemn Goldstone’s Gaza report do Israel no favours The Guardian - 21 October 2009 I recently met a leading representative of the foreign ministry of Israel who acknowledged to me “off the record” that Israel had made a tremendous blunder in refusing to cooperate with the UN Commission [...]
Chief Rabbi of South Africa Warren Goldstein: Goldstone’s unjust rush job has hurt the cause of peace
by RAINman on 22. Oct, 2009 in Analysis
Warren Goldstein has a PhD in Human Rights Law and is the Chief Rabbi of SA. Business Day 20 October 2009 IT IS important to deconstruct the Goldstone report into the Gaza w ar from a legal point of view, because it uses the veneer of respectability that comes with legal methodology, and the presence [...]
Subscribe to the RAIN Newsletter
Cost of war
Follow us on Twitter
RAINman on air…
He speaks about issues impacting on the Muslim World, especially relating to the Middle East and US politics. He is an equal opportunity lampooner of rogue politicians and bad policies.
Expect straight talk with tongue planted firmly in cheek






Recent Comments