Tom Gross, an renowned and influential journalist with years of expertise in Middle East reporting, reported on the recent UN commission that found Israel’s naval blockade to be legal, as reported in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. As he often does, Gross added some great commentary of his own to the story:

The Israeli paper Ha’aretz reports that “The final findings of the UN commission that investigated the events concerning the Turkish-led flotilla in May 2010 do not call for Israel to apologize, and conclude that the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza is legal and is in accordance with international law and a country’s right of self-defense.”

The UN committee investigating the events of last May’s Gaza flotilla is headed by the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Geoffrey Palmer, who is an expert on international maritime law.

The UN report also sharply criticized the Turkish government’s behavior in its dealings with the committee. Palmer added in the report that Israel’s independent commission led by Judge Turkel had investigated the events in a “professional, independent and unbiased” way.

By contrast, Palmer concluded that “the Turkish investigation was politically influenced and its work was not professional or independent.”

The Palmer Committee also criticizes the IHH group that organized the Gaza flotilla as well as its ties to the Turkish government, suggesting Turkey did not do enough to stop the flotilla last year. (By contrast, the Turkish authorities cooperated with Israel this year to ensure the flotilla didn’t sail from Turkey – Tom Gross.)

According to the final draft of the UN probe, Israel has not been asked to apologize to Turkey, but the report does recommend it expresses regret over the casualties.

Palmer said that although international law permits the interception of ships outside territorial waters, Israel should have taken control of the flotilla when the ships were closer to the limit of the naval blockade – 20 miles off the coast. Israel responded by saying that its interception of the flotilla further from the coast was due to military and tactical considerations, following the organizers’ refusal to stop.

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Tom Gross adds: the above information was widely reported last week in the Israeli media, but why do all those influential international media, which criticize Israel day after day, not report properly that the UN committee has ruled Israel was right in its assertions after all?

Unlike journalists at other media, Reuters did run a piece last year, which I attach at the end of this dispatch, explaining how Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is indeed legal under international law.

And why is the UN always spending huge amounts of money investigating supposed Israeli wrongdoings while not investigating countless wrongdoings by other governments which occur daily and most of which are barely reported by the media?

Omar Al-Ghoul, one of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s advisors, had the audacity to say this publicly regarding the Hamas attack on a school bus that left one young boy brain dead:

The [school] bus wasn’t that badly damaged, but Israel wants to use the attack on the bus as an excuse for its latest war crime against our people

This disgusting, miserable excuse for a human being should have his tongue cut out, the stump cauterized, and then be told: “Aw, c’mon, you didn’t lose that much blood. Don’t use this as an excuse to complain.”

Hey Goldstone, nice of you to wake up. Now go back to sleep. Or, better yet, drop dead.

I’ve posted many posts about Richard Goldstone’s libelous and scandalous report, and now, almost two years later, that buffoon wakes up and says “maybe I was wrong”.  It’s a bit late for that, the damage has been done.

But, worse than his sitting on the truth for two years is the fact that even now, when he’s supposedly admitting his mistakes, he still can’t do so without reservation. He still has to qualify some remarks or, worse, offer some offensive “explanations” for his statements.

Melanie Phillips did a good job dissecting this new load of crap from the crapmaster in a recent Spectator article:

In an extraordinary article in the Washington Post, Richard Goldstone has now admitted that his infamous report was wrong. Having fuelled the blood libel that in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza Israel had targeted civilians and possibly had committed crimes against humanity, he now says that, as a result of the final report of the UN committee of independent experts and other evidence that has emerged since his report was published, he accepts that

civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy

and further states that

if I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.

What self-serving rubbish. There was ample evidence at the time from numerous sources that Hamas was telling lies about the number of civilians who were killed by Israeli fire. There was ample evidence that Hamas was deliberately putting civilians in harm’s way. There was ample evidence that Hamas does not operate under the rule of law or uphold human rights. There was ample evidence that Israeli rules of engagement required the IDF to avoid hitting civilians wherever possible. There was ample evidence that Israel always investigates allegations of misconduct made against its soldiers and holds them to acount under the rule of law. Yet Goldstone, having accepted the poisoned chalice from the UN Human Rights Council to subject Israel to a show trial whose verdict preceded the evidence (despite his protestations that he modified this odious remit), chose to believe the propaganda put out by Hamas and its proxies among NGOs with a long track record of malevolent hostility to Israel.

Even now, in this purported mea culpa, Goldstone does not take responsibility for the Big Lie he helped perpetrate with such terrible consequences in putting rocket-fuel behind Israel’s delegitimisation as a pariah in the eyes of the world. Instead, he blames his false conclusions upon Israel’s refusal to co-operate with his inquiry.

So for the second time, he is again blaming Israel for its own victimisation – first at the hands of Hamas, and now at his own hands.

Ludicrously, he now says that his report’s

allegations of intentionality by Israel were based on the deaths of and injuries to civilians in situations where our fact-finding mission had no evidence on which to draw any other reasonable conclusion.

The protestation that he had no alternative but to believe Hamas is quite astounding. Hamas is a terrorist organisation with a solid track record of lies, distortions and ‘Pallywood’-style fabrications as a strategy of aggressive warfare.  Israel, the victim of that aggression, has a solid record of telling the truth. Yet Goldstone chose to believe the Hamas version of events. Nor was this all. As he says in the Washington Post:

Some have suggested that it was absurd to expect Hamas, an organization that has a policy to destroy the state of Israel, to investigate what we said were serious war crimes. It was my hope, even if unrealistic, that Hamas would do so, especially if Israel conducted its own investigations. At minimum I hoped that in the face of a clear finding that its members were committing serious war crimes, Hamas would curtail its attacks. Sadly, that has not been the case. Hundreds more rockets and mortar rounds have been directed at civilian targets in southern Israel….

In the end, asking Hamas to investigate may have been a mistaken enterprise. So, too, the Human Rights Council should condemn the inexcusable and cold-blooded recent slaughter of a young Israeli couple and three of their small children in their beds.

I continue to believe in the cause of establishing and applying international law to protracted and deadly conflicts….Regrettably, there has been no effort by Hamas in Gaza to investigate the allegations of its war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.

Can you believe this? He appears to have expected genocidal aggressor Hamas to behave in a civilised fashion by investigating its alleged abuses — while he chose to throw the book at its democratic victim, Israel. And now the most he will acknowledge is that expecting Hamas to do so

may have been a mistaken enterprise.

By his own admission, the man stands revealed as at best an abject idiot and at worst a moral and judicial bankrupt. His report blackened Israel’s name for defending itself against existential attack; encouraged its attackers to ratchet up their onslaught safe in the knowledge that the international community now had official confirmation that Israel was morally beyond the pale; put Israeli civilians, along with Israel’s very survival, at increased risk by helping delegitimise Israel as a global pariah; and fuelled the pressure on Israel not to defend its civilians by military means against the attacks which have relentlessly increased in audacity and scope.

Regardless of its manifest moral and intellectual inadequacies, however, his recantation carries inescapable consequences. All those who have used Goldstone’s report as a basis for their own delegitimisation of Israel now also stand revealed as having endorsed one of the worst officially sanctioned international falsehoods in history. All their attacks on Israel which relied upon Goldstone’s report are now shown to be equally baseless and discredited. Any future such attacks which use this report as an authority will be demonstrably false and malicious. The UN should now declare the Goldstone report null and void. Any less will make it knowingly and demonstrably party to a travesty of justice.

But of course, like all previous blood libels against the Jews, the poison this one has injected into the global bloodstream has no antidote. The damage is done – and no amount of self-serving recantations by Richard Goldstone will undo the terrible harm he has done.

 

Here’s something you won’t see reported on any mainstream media news outlet: security camera footage of a Hamas rocket just barely missing a wedding reception in Netivot, Israel.

Hamas routinely bombs Palestinian children.

Yes, you read that correctly. These “accidents”, as they are called by the Palestinians, are the result of Hamas building explosive factories right next to schools so as to avoid Israel targeting their factories, and then having “workplace accidents” where bumbling Hamas idiots cross the wrong wires or drop the wrong carton at the wrong time. If you ask me, this takes away quite a bit of the “accidental” aspect of these children getting hurt.

What makes this story (and this is a recurring story, as it happens every couple of months) so interesting is that it is strikingly absent from the mainstream media. You don’t have to look very hard to find every insinuation of Israeli “aggression” (even when it’s mostly fabricated by the Palestinians and then served up unverified by the media), but good luck finding any stories of Palestinians getting hurt by other Palestinians.

For example, did anyone hear about Hamas’s “work accident” on August 2, which severely injured 58 Palestinians, including 14 children and 9 women, completely destroyed seven houses and damaged another 30?  Probably not—because it wasn’t much reported. Yet, the same media which ignores stories like that, turned the 2002 battle that took place in Jenin—in which fewer Palestinians were killed (the vast majority of whom were confirmed terrorists)—into a “massacre”, reporting on it around the clock on every channel almost as though they had the scoop on a new holocaust!

Or how about another more recent incident, which occurred last month in the southern Gazan town of Rafah, in which five children and two women were injured according to AP (and 17 children according to Palestinian media) after a device in a Hamas weapons laboratory adjacent to a school accidentally exploded? Anyone hear about that? Nope. Credit does go to AP for actually running the story on their newswire, but that’s where it pretty much ends, because apparently none of the media outlets found it interesting and newsworthy enough to pass along to the public. Why? Because there was no way of spinning it to slander Israel?

Well, here are some of the picture you probably haven’t seen. Again, an unusual thank you to AP for actually sending out these pictures:

This news item just made me laugh out loud. Literally. The Telegraph and Arutz 7 are both reporting on the hilarious story of a bunch of troublemakers who tried setting out on another flotilla to break the Gaza blockade—only to end up getting “kidnapped” by the ship’s captain who, in a dispute over money, set sail for Greece, trapping them on board before they could disembark.

To add to the hilarity, the idiots on board have reported that the captain had “gone crazy” and had left the ship, taking off on a speed boat heading for a different vessel.

(One wonders if being called “crazy” by people who are apparently crazy themselves is the psychological equivalent of a double negative?)

Anyway, it serves those rabblerousers right!

Here’s an excerpt from the Arutz 7 report:

A small group of foreign activists who had hoped to break Israel’s naval blockade on Hamas are instead heading for Greece. The activists, along with several Libyans, were trapped aboard the ship they had hoped to take to Gaza as the captain set sail for Greece instead.

The Greek captain of the Strofades IV left Libya without permission on Thursday following a lengthy dispute with the foreign Road to Hope activists over payment. Road to Hope organizers reported that the captain was planning to drop the activists off in Greece.

A separate report, from activists aboard the ship, indicated that the captain had “gone crazy” and had left the ship, taking off on a speed boat heading for a different vessel.

Three Libyans, two Irish citizens, seven British citizens and one Algerian were said to be aboard the boat against their will.

There has been a slew of disgusting, self-hating, traitorous anti-Semitic Jews in the news lately. In the last few days, I read no less than three separate stories of such vermin.

First, you have this unbelievable story of a whole shipload of such imbeciles who put together the next flotilla sailing for Gaza. Arutz Sheva reports:

A ship carrying Jewish left-wing activists from around the world set sail from Cyprus at noon Sunday, and is headed to Gaza, carrying what activists say are humanitarian supplies.

Among the passengers are Yonatan Shapiro, a former IDF helicopter pilot who co-signed a letter by IDF reservists who refused to serve in missions that targeted terrorists in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, for fear of killing civilians. Shapiro also recently vandalized the Warsaw Ghetto memorial with graffiti comparing the ghetto to Gaza.

Shapiro said that the goal of the ship is to “break the siege on Gaza” and transfer equipment and humanitarian supplies. He stressed that they would not enter a confrontation with the IDF even if the IDF stops them from reaching Gaza.

Among other activists on board are a Holocaust survivor, Julie Moskowitz, and Rami Elhanan, who lost his daughter in an Arab terror attack.

These are obviously a bunch of first-class rabble-rousers, but most incredible is the passenger whose daughter was slaughtered by Arabs in a terrorist attack. Here’s someone who should understand the need for the blockade, but he’s apparently blind to common sense.

The best response to this situation, as voiced to me by several intelligent people, was that the IDF should allow that ship in, but not allow them out. Let those foolish Jews see what their Hamas “friends” think of them. (The sad part is that even as their “friends” are stringing them up for a public lynching, those self-hating Jews would still find some way to blame it on Israel.)

Then you have another clown in today’s news: Ilan Pappe. This frothing-at-the-mouth sonderkommando actually traveled to India (a country with relatively overwhelmingly high support for Israel) with two choice companions, Arab MK Jamal Mahalka and PA official Mustafa Barghouti, to stir up a boycott of Israel and to publicly lambaste Israel in any way that he can. Arutz Sheva reports:

An Arab MK and a Jewish Israeli professor were among those in India last week for a conference that aimed to put an end to Israel-India ties. MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad), professor Ilan Pappe, and Palestinian Authority official Mustafa Barghouti traveled to New Delhi to speak in favor of boycotting Israel.

. . . MK Zahalka told Indians to stop purchasing Israeli arms because they are, he claimed, ineffective. “India should end its defense ties with Israel because it is buying equipment that failed during Israel’s aggression on Lebanon,” he said.

Ilan Pappe, known radical leftist and one of the few Israeli professors to support an academic boycott of Israel, focused on the flotilla incident, which he said “exposed Israel for who and what they are [sic].” He criticized the Arab world for “not doing anything” against Israel.

If only Israel had the death penalty for traitors.

And, yet another anti-Semitic Jewish lowlife in the news recently is none other than the American liberal funder George Soros, who was recently revealed to be behind the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel lobby, “J Street”.  Arutz Sheva reports:

[The Washington] Times’ reporter Eli Lake said that the newspaper obtained tax forms revealing that Soros and his two children gave J Street nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

Soros originally helped found J Street as an alternative lobby to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), whose pro-Israel polices angered him. He contributed heavily in an attempt to defeat President Bush when he ran for re-election in 2004, telling The New York Times that getting rid of Bush was  the “central focus of my life” and “a matter of life and death.”

Soros was a strong supporter of President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, and the president has included J Street  officials frequently in White House consultations, trying to promote the political lobby as representing American Jews.

J Street promotes itself as a “pro-Israel and pro-peace lobby. It favors including Hamas in the “peace process. The former founder of a Hamas-linked charity recently attended a J Street event in Florida and was welcomed by applause.

All this in just a couple of days.

Why is it that Jews always have what seems to be the most substantial fifth column of any nation, country, group, etc. ever in history???

If only this were a joke.

Hezbollah backer Samar al-Hajj has recruited a ship full of women to provoke another altercation with the IDF over the Gaza blockade, including a nun and a “heavily pregnant” mother.  One can only wonder what’s next in their arsenal?  A shipful of cute big-brown-eyed puppies? A floating hospital? A kindergarten class on a school trip?

And despite claims that they will not be traveling with so much as a kitchen knife, I would seriously wonder whether that nun aboard is even really Catholic and what she might be hiding under her habit. And, as for the pregnant mother, it’s obvious that these people have no scruples and no morality when it comes to life and their children (watch any Islamist propagandist TV show and you’ll see it clearly before long), so I wouldn’t put it past her to be on a suicide mission for herself or even her unborn child (after all, hearing how they speak of their pride in birthing and raising children for martyrdom, one can only imagine how proud she’d be of a child who was able to “achieve” such a great “accomplishment” before even being born!).

Israel has every right to blockade a territory from which terror is launched against them, and Gaza has been such a territory ever since Israel foolishly trusted the Palestinian two-faced, hypocritical, lowlife leaders and uprooted their citizens from there, leaving it Judenrein.

If other countries and activist organizations want to challenge that blockade, then they are clearly going into this with the simple and straightforward knowledge that they are challenging the security of a sovereign country, not to mention directly challenging the power and authority of an entire army, and they therefore are well aware of the consequences and consequently deserve everything that comes their way.

If these activists’ objective is really about providing “humanitarian aid” to Gazans, then there is clearly a channel for that, as described and provided by Israel, with Israel even guaranteeing the activists’ ability to monitor the distribution. The only proviso is that the “aid” must be inspected first. If, as the activists claim, the supplies are nothing but benign medical supplies and the like, then they should have no problem with that. If, on the other hand, they do have a problem with that, then we can clearly question either: (1) the activists’ true motives; or (2) the content of the “humanitarian” supplies.

As it turns out, though, based on the last flotilla, we can actually question both of the above. After all, the last flotilla clearly had motives other than benevolent humanitarian aid (in fact, the notorious Mavi Marmara didn’t even have any humanitarian supplies aboard; just terrorists armed with knives, clubs, metal rods, and apparently even firearms).

Additionally, the organizers of the last flotilla clearly were not overly concerned about the contents of the “humanitarian” supplies: amidst all the knives, clubs, rods, and other weapons, most of the actual supplies (contact lenses, medications, etc.) were found to be past their expiration dates and virtually unusable by any professional medical organization. (Not that it matters, because Hamas, the corrupt terrorist Gazan authority, ultimately confiscates everything anyway and the average Gazan doesn’t ever see any of it.)

I sincerely hope that Israel stands their ground and does not cave in to all those international talking-head ninnies sitting safely in their comfortable homes under no threat of constant attack (nay, annihilation!). Doing so would only end up setting a precedent of letting such holes make their way into their blockade under pressure and, once they do that, the whole purpose of a blockade is defeated and Israel might as well just start supplying weapons to the Palestinians themselves. (Oh, wait… don’t they already do that?!… my, what a tragic joke this whole situation has become, and all because of “international opinion”…)

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren wrote a great op-ed piece in the NY Times on Wednesday:

PEACE activists are people who demonstrate nonviolently for peaceful co-existence and human rights. The mob that assaulted Israeli special forces on the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara on Monday was not motivated by peace. On the contrary, the religious extremists embedded among those on board were paid and equipped to attack Israelis — both by their own hands as well as by aiding Hamas — and to destroy any hope of peace.

Millions have already seen the Al Jazeera broadcast showing these “activists” chanting “Khaibar! Khaibar!”— a reference to a Muslim massacre of Jews in the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century. YouTube viewers saw Israeli troops, armed with crowd-dispersing paintball guns and side arms for emergency protection, being beaten and hurled over the railings of the ship by attackers wielding iron bars.

What the videos don’t show, however, are several curious aspects Israeli authorities are now investigating. First, about 100 of those detained from the boats were carrying immense sums in their pockets — nearly a million euros in total. Second, Israel discovered spent bullet cartridges on the Mavi Marmara that are of a caliber not used by the Israeli commandos, some of whom suffered gunshot wounds. Also found on the boat were propaganda clips showing passengers “injured” by Israeli forces; these videos, however, were filmed during daylight, hours before the nighttime operation occurred.

The investigations of all this evidence will be transparent, in accordance with Israel’s security needs.

There is little doubt as to the real purpose of the Mavi Marmara’s voyage — not to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, but to create a provocation that would put international pressure on Israel to drop the Gaza embargo, and thus allow the flow of seaborne military supplies to Hamas. Just as Hamas gunmen hide behind civilians in Gaza, so, too, do their sponsors cower behind shipments of seemingly innocent aid.

This is why the organizers of the flotilla repeatedly rejected Israeli offers to transfer its cargo to Gaza once it was inspected for military contraband. They also rebuffed an Israeli request to earmark some aid packages for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held hostage by Hamas for four years.

In the recent past, Israeli forces have diverted nine such flotillas, all without incident, and peacefully boarded five of the ships in this week’s convoy. Their cargoes, after proper inspection, were delivered to non-Hamas institutions in Gaza. Only the Marmara, a vessel too large to be neutralized by technical means such as fouling the propeller, violently resisted. It is no coincidence that the ship was dispatched by Insani Yardim Vakfi (also called the I.H.H.), a supposed charity that Israeli and other intelligence services have linked to Islamic extremists.

The real intent of breaking the embargo is to allow rockets to be transported to Gaza from Hamas’s suppliers in Syria and Iran. Israel has already intercepted several such ships laden with munitions. Since Israel’s disengagement from Gaza in 2005, Hamas has fired more than 10,000 rockets and mortars at our civilian population. This week, two Hamas rockets exploded near Ashkelon, one of Israel’s largest cities.

Israel has a right and a duty to defend itself from Hamas and its backers. Our struggle is not with the people of Gaza but only with the radical regime that overthrew the legitimate Palestinian Authority and has pledged to seek Israel’s destruction. Each day, Israel facilitates the passage into Gaza of more than 100 truckloads of food and medicine — there is no shortage of either. We, too, want a free Gaza — a Gaza liberated from brutal Hamas rule — as well as an Israel freed from terrorist threats.

Israel will scrupulously review the events surrounding the Marmara’s interception. But Israel will also persist in denying advanced weaponry to Hamas. At the same time, the Israeli government will vigorously pursue peace with the Palestinian Authority, which shares our need for defense against armed extremists. The real peace activists are those who support our vision of a two-state solution, not those supporting the terrorists bent on destroying it.

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In this breaking news video, Netanyahu clearly explains the situation involving the Mavi Marmara, the motives of Israel, and the dangers that Israel (and the rest of the world) face. Also in this video is new footage of yet more damning evidence of the activist/terrorist savages part in instigating the violence.

The following is one of the best videos I’ve seen reporting on and analyzing the Mavi Marmara incident:

As further proof that this is hardly an issue of “humanitarian aid”, but rather a tactical maneuver to force Israel to give up the blockade and to thereby reopen the terrorists’ weapons smuggling channels, CNN is reporting that the humanitarian supplies that came aboard the flotilla (not to be confused with the weapons cache that was found, as well) was dutifully transferred to Gaza, as promised by Israel—but was refused by Hamas.

That’s right: Hamas refused the humanitarian aid because it didn’t break the blockade. Had this really been about getting aid to needy people, and about humanitarian objectives, this would not have happened.

This is also further proof that those people who are still defending these savages and terrorists are doing so not for legitimate, ethical reasons, but simply out of ideological hatred of Israel.

London’s Times Online has an unbelievable story about one of the more incredible spies for Israel in recent times.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, nicknamed the “Green Prince”, spied for Israel’s Shin Bet security service for over a decade, using his connections and knowledge as the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of Hamas’s founding members! Yousef, a convert to Christianity, saved countless lives and did it all not for money or favors, but simply for the sake of saving lives.

His Shin Bet handler said, “So many people owe him their life and don’t even know it… The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money. He did things he believed in. He wanted to save lives. His grasp of intelligence matters was just as good as ours — the ideas, the insights. One insight of his was worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts.”

Yousef’s compassion for life is evident as well in his amazingly strong statements about Gilad Shalit, the young soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas never to be seen since, and the current and ongoing prospect of trading terrorists for Shalit:

I wish I were in Gaza now… I would put on an army uniform and join Israel’s special forces in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. If I were there, I could help. We wasted so many years with investigations and arrests to capture the very terrorists that they now want to release in return for Schalit. That must not be done.

This has all come out recently, as Yousef is releasing a book next month, entitled Son of Hamas, which promises to be a very interesting read.

…or all three?

Richard Goldstone, having read the draft of today’s United Nations resolution which was ultimately approved later in the day—officially endorsing his virulent, anti-Semitic, slanderous report—is reported to have said, “This draft resolution saddens me as it includes only allegations against Israel. There is not a single phrase condemning Hamas as we have done in the report. I hope that the council can modify the text.”

Now, any adult living in today’s world for more than five minutes can tell you that the news is always full of “atrocities” committed by Israel, and full of condemnations of Israel by other countries and organizations for these “atrocities”… while you hear comparatively nothing about the Arab world, with their customs of imprisoning political dissidents, beheading Christians, stoning rape victims, performing forced clitoridectomies on teenage girls, forcing women to be subordinate to their husbands, committing the occasional genocide here and there in Africa, and of course bombing civilian areas and using human shields while committing acts of terrorism.

So, either Goldstone is:

(a) a naïf who miraculously made it this far in his adult life unaware of the twisted ways of the world, and who actually thought he could put out such a sham of a report and not have it immediately snatched up by everyone to be used against Israel and Israel alone, ignoring the few mentions of Hamas in there (get out your magnifying glass…);

(b) an idiot who might have been aware of that global phenomenon, but stupidly thought his report was some kind of magical one that would ward of any such uses, or maybe that he is a special kind of guy who wouldn’t be used like the foolish anti-Semitic tool that he turned out to be; or

(c) an “excrement-peddler” (euphemistically-speaking, of course), who knew exactly what he was doing when he put out that crock of excrement, and is now following it up with more excrement to have you believe that he’s innocent of any such vicious intentions, when he is in reality so obviously full of excrement because he knew what he was doing and just didn’t care.

My vote is with (c) and, I pray, may he get slammed with an equally vicious and slanderous “assessment” on his own Judgment Day.