Posted on 04/04/2011 5:45:33 AM PDT by SJackson
Source close to South African judge claims he initially approached liberal publication to print his letter of regret – and was rejected. New York Times says in response it does not comment on editorial process
Not only did Judge Richard Goldstone's words of regret fail to match the global resonance of his original report, it now comes to light that one of the most important newspapers in the world refused to publish his retraction.
Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday that a source close to Goldstone stated that in the past few days the judge had approached the editor of the New York Times opinion pages requesting to post the article he wrote in the paper – and was told his article was rejected.
The editor gave no explanation as to why the article was rejected, but the source believes this was due to the newspaper's political agenda.
The letter was ultimately published in the more conservative Washington Post over the weekend.
The New York Times said in response that they do not comment on the editorial or reporting process. In recent years the New York Times adopted a highly critical line of reporting towards Israel. Lately, its senior commentator Thomas Friedman has been publishing extremely aggressive articles against Israel and its current government.
The source also said that since the publication of the Goldstone Report two years ago, the judge and his wife have been socially ostracized in Jewish circles, which has caused them a great deal of sorrow.
Broken man Dr. Alon Liel, a friend of Goldstone's from his days as a Foreign Ministry representative in South Africa, went a step further and said that Goldstone has "been through hell" and that has contributed to his decision to publish a letter of regret.
"He was being constantly harassed, received threatening letters, and was forced to change his phone number and email addresses," Liel said. "When Israel decided to boycott him, it was an overwhelming insult.'I'm a Jewish judge, a respected Zionist – and Israel doesn't trust me?' He was a broken man.
"I'm not saying that the threats he received and the hell he went through are what made him publish his article, but there is no doubt in my mind that it influenced his decision."
Yet other sources close to Goldstone claim that the decision to publish the letter didn't stem from social pressure but from the judge's deep understanding that the UN Human Rights Committee took advantage of his name, status and his being Jewish to unfairly censure Israel.
"He would never have written or published the article," the source explained, "if he didn't feel with the utmost certainty that he needed to tell the world that he was manipulated."
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“the more conservative Washington Post”
LOL
The only thing worse than that is the article assumes the reader already knows the entire backstory.
Retract what? What did this guy write or say in the first place?
Tempted to post the bunny with a pancake on its head pic.
What did he do?
Once again, with a sense of disgust, I can only make a simple comment, “RE-READ MY TAG-LINE”
Says it ALL, doesn’t it?
Actually, rather fascinating stuff....and the comments by readers to the judge's perfidy are absorbing.
Leni
Thanks.
Goldstone drafted a report on the war in Gaza and Israel’s “war crimes”. Unfortunately, Israel didn’t work with Goldstone and Goldstone ended up skewering Israel without facts.
•The report violates international standards for inquries, including UN rules on fact-finding, replicating earlier UNHRC biased statements.
•The Commission systematically favored witnesses and evidence put forward by anti-Israel advocates, and dismissed evidence and testimony that would undermine its case.
•The commission relied extensively on mediating agencies, especially UN and NGOs, which have a documented hostility to Israel; the report reproduces earlier reports and claims from these agencies.
•At the same time, the Commission inexplicably downplayed or ignored substantial evidence of Hamas’ commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of terror, including specifically its victimization of the Palestinian population by its use of human shields, civilian dress for combatants, and combat use of protected objects like ambulances, hospitals and mosques.
http://www.goldstonereport.org/
He is a traitor to his people (he is a Jew-hating Jew), assumed terrorists are the good guys, and condemned Israel’s IDF as the bad guys.
Well, we have more than our share of them over here. And we also have a good many of self hating and guilt ridding Whites.
Sounds like he would be right at home with his brethern over here. A first class son of a bitch.
Everyone stands naked before G!D. Hopefully the anti-semites will stand very quickly including kapo Snoros that puke. Ha ha on Goldstone given das boot from Israel!
All the news that fits, we print.
I was heartened by the part of the story that he was ostracized by his Jewish friends. Good for them! Nice to know we still have some Zionists in America.
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