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.
Since the facts can't be disputed in any way other than drive-by attacks like the ones carried out by Israel's representatives in Congress, such as Howard Berman of California, who claimed the report was false but couldn't point to a single factual error; Israel's fluffers have resorted to some of the slimiest, most repulsive tactics in the history of political discourse.
Recently, Israel's henchmen threatened to protest the Bar Mitzvah of Goldstone's grandson, in much the same way that Fred Phelps and his inbred family tries to disrupt the funerals of gay victims of murder and service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact that Israel's fanboys consider this kind of thuggery just and proper (and in a classic case of projection, accused Goldstone of "politicizing" his grandson's Bar Mitzvah) shows how despicable they really are.
The latest smear, posted in an Israeli newspaper and so quickly regurgitated by (among others) Jeffrey Goldberg, Jonathan Chait and Alan Dershowitz is even more vile, for reasons I'll explain below.
While it's fallacious to try to discredit one's opponent with ad hominem attacks, turnabout is fair play. So in the interest of serving those who slander Judge Goldstone a taste of their own rancid medicine, I think a little background on Goldstone's accusers is in order.
Let's start with Jonathan Chait, a smarmy, dishonest hack who writes for The New Republic, a white supremacist rag that promoted the crank racial theories of Charles Murray, who claims blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites. The publisher, one Martin Peretz has such a seething hatred of Arabs and Muslims that the late Jesse Helms' dislike of blacks seems almost quaint in comparison. Naturally, Chait defends his employer's crazed bigotry and hatred.
Next we have Jeffrey Goldberg, a former guard at one of Israel's more infamous dungeons, who claims unconvincingly that he, like Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes, saw "Nossing! NOSSING!" when thousands of prisoners were tortured.
Then we have plagiarist* law professor Alan Dershowitz, who has taken time off from defending O.J. Simpson and wealthy child molesters like Jeffrey Epstein and cyberstalking his underage victims in order to dig up dirt on their sex lives, so he can defend Israeli war crimes. Dershowitz is also a supporter of torture.
* Watching Dershowitz's reaction when Norman Finkelstein confronts him with his obvious plagiarism reminds me of how Dracula reacted when Van Helsing whipped out the garlic:
Loathsome as these characters are, they may have outdone themselves with their most recent slime job. The smear is as follows:
- As a judge in Apartheid-era South Africa, Richard Goldstone either handed out death sentences or as an appellate judge confirmed death sentences handed out by other judges.
- The fact that most of the men sentenced to death were black means Goldstone hates black people.
- Goldstone just follows whatever is popular at the time without regard for facts or law.
- Items 1-3 prove that the Goldstone Report is false and none of the atrocities described in the report ever happened.
This is where special pleaders for the Gaza Massacre shoot themselves in the foot:
If an investigation into war crimes (and subsequent prosecution) is discredited because the person doing the investigation handed out lawful death sentences years earlier in another country (and thus the war crimes never happened), then the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials also stand discredited, and the crimes for which the Nazis and Imperial Japanese defendants were investigated, tried and executed never happened. That is because almost everyone involved in those trials had either handed down death sentences or confirmed death sentences handed out by other judges, whether civilian or military -especially the Russians.
That's right: In their zeal to defend Israeli war crimes and slander those who investigated the atrocities, Israel's apologists are engaging in Holocaust "revisionism". Nice going assholes.