Tel-Chai Nation

The UNHRC voted on Friday to endorse the Goldstone farce, in a completely one-sided manner, and now there's reactions at home in the Knesset:

Coalition and opposition MKs united over the weekend in their condemnation of UN Human Rights Commission, which voted Friday to endorse the controversial findings of the Goldstone Report on last winter's Operation Cast Lead.

This time, it was not only the report, but the institution itself that took fire from almost all sides of the Israeli political spectrum.

"The UNHCR, from the day that it was established, looks at Israel through a twisted and disfiguring manner - just like the report itself," complained Kadima head and opposition leader Tzipi Livni.

Livni, who has lately tried to position herself as the more moderate, internationally friendly alternative to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, nevertheless wasted no words condemning the UNHRC vote as "a clearly cynical political vote. Thus, without any connection to the commission, Israel will continue to do the right thing, to defend her civilians against terror, to take necessary military actions, to continue the international struggle against the report and will insure the legal defense of IDF officers."

I wish I could credit her more than I can, but her earlier slamming of Netanyahu for his straightforward condemnation of Ahmedinejad a few weeks ago makes me doubt she means it.

Coalition politicians also rushed to protest the vote. Interior Minister Eli Yishai decried "an anti-Israeli resolution which joins an anti-Israeli report."

"The council's resolution constitutes diplomatic anarchy," he said, adding that the IDF treated innocent civilians with "kid gloves," during Operation Cast Lead, even as the report alleges the Israel committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.

Science Minister Daniel Herschkowitz said it was "a shame that the UN has made itself irrelevant."

For a long time now, in fact.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, terrorism, UN corruption, war on terror