In his latest column, M.J. Rosenberg of Media Matters and Huffington Post shows how shameless Israel's fanboy apologists are. Clearly they lack the forbearance of Stalin's media hacks back in the 1930s, who had the good sense to wait a few days or even a few weeks before coughing up Moscow's latest party line like a furball. They also at least made the effort to re-write the agitprop so as not to be seen as obvious shills for a thug regime. Israel's fanboys are capable of neither.
The target of this particular smear campaign is Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored the UN report that shows in no uncertain terms that the actions taken by the IDF and IAF (as well as Hamas) during the Gaza Massacre were war crimes that killed between 1300-1400 people -most of them civilians and over 300 of them children. Since the various IDF camp followers in the media can't dispute any of the facts in the report, they are now flailing about, groping for anything to attack Goldstone with.
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