Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gabriela Shalev, has stated to the UN General Assembly that the Goldstone report was "conceived in hate and executed in sin." What pathos, what trite, what polemic, and what exactly does she mean? Does she mean Goldstone hates Israel and he has sinned? Really, I don't know what she means and, of course, neither does she.
Nevertheless, newspeak, gobbledegook, like this from a newspeaker is not meant to be clear; it is meant to confuse, to cloud over, it is an irrational statement that attempts to detract from Goldtone's sober and rational findings. That this is so becomes all too obvious later in her speech when she says, "Israel is committed to abiding by international law." What drivel, what obnoxious, offensive drivel; if Israel was respecting international law, it would have left the occupied territories a long time ago.
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