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Goldstone Report Is a Barrier to Peace
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There are many things wrong with the Goldstone report, which accuses 
Israel of deliberately targeting civilians in order to punish the people 
of Gaza. First, its primary conclusions are entirely false as a matter 
of demonstrable fact. Second, it defames one of the most moral military 
forces in the world, along with one of the most responsive legal systems 
and one of the freest nations in the world when it comes to dissent. 
Third, it destroys the credibility of "international human rights" and 
proves that this honorable concept has been hijacked for political 
purposes directed primarily against one nation -- Israel.
But fourth, and most important, it has set back prospects of peace by 
making it far more difficult for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank. 
When Israel was considering its withdrawal from Gaza, some critics 
predicted that the transfer of Israeli troops out of this dangerous area 
would encourage terrorists to fire rockets at Israeli civilians who live 
in close proximity to the Gaza Strip. Those who favored the withdrawal 
argued that if Palestinian terrorists were to fire rockets from the 
unoccupied Gaza, Israel would have a perfect right to do whatever it 
took militarily to stop its civilians from being targeted by enemy 
rockets. They pointed out that every country has the right to self 
defense under the United Nations Charter and under the rules of 
international law. (I favored the withdrawal, as did many liberal 
supporters of Israel and believed that Israel had the military capacity 
to respond to any rocket attacks.)
As soon as the Israeli army left the Gaza Strip, Hamas decided to launch 
rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets. The Hamas website proudly 
proclaimed, "The Zionist Army is afraid that the Palestinians will 
increase the range of the new rockets, placing the towns and villages in 
the [Zionist] entity in danger." These Hamas rocket attacks increased 
over the years until more than a million Israelis were within range. 
Thousands were traumatized, dozens were injured and several were killed 
by the thousands of anti-personnel rockets that targeted children, women 
and other civilians. As candidate Barack Obama said when he went to 
visit Sderot, the town most devastated by these unprovoked Hamas war crimes:
"The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I 
can assure you that if...If somebody was sending rockets into my house 
where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my 
power to stop that. And I would expect Israeli to do the same thing."
Israel protested these rocket attacks to the United Nations, but to no 
avail. They increased in frequency and range.
The citizens of Israel, especially those in range of the attacks, 
demanded that their army protect them and not wait until a rocket hit a 
school bus filled with children or a nursery. Since most of the rockets 
were fired while children were on route to or just beginning their 
classes, the risk of a cataclysmic tragedy were considerable. Finally 
after enduring years of rocket attacks, Israel decided to undertake 
military action to stop them.
Just before the hostilities began, Israel offered a carrot and a stick: 
it reopened a checkpoint to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. It had 
closed the point of entry after the checkpoint had been targeted by 
Gazan rockets. (On several prior occasions, Hamas rockets had targeted 
Israel points of entry through which aid had been provided. It was as if 
Hams was deliberately trying to manufacture a humanitarian crisis. 
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, also issued a stern, final warning 
to Hamas that unless it stopped the rockets, there would be a full-scale 
military response.
This is the way Reuters reported it:
"Israel reopened border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day 
after Prime Minister warned militants there to stop firing rockets or 
they would pay a heavy price. Despite the movement of relief supplies, 
militants fired about a dozen rockets and mortar shafts from Gaza at 
Israel on Friday. One accidentally struck a house in Gaza, killing two 
Palestinian sisters, ages 5 and 13. [T]he deliveries could ease the 
tensions that might have led to a military action to end the rocket 
attacks. Palestinian workers at the crossings said fuel had arrive for 
Gaza's main power plant and about a hundred trucks loaded with grain, 
humanitarian aid and other good were expected during the day."
Finally in desperation Israel launched an attack designed to stop the 
rockets. It succeeded in large part though some rocket attacks have 
continued. Because Hamas fired its rockets from behind human shields, it 
was inevitable that there would be civilian casualties, despite Israeli 
efforts to reduce them by making hundreds of thousands of phone calls 
and leaflet drops warning civilians to stay out of the streets.
Goldstone's one-sided condemnation on Israel will make it far more 
difficult for Israeli leaders to persuade their citizens to remove their 
soldiers from the West Bank. Rockets fired from the West Bank would 
endanger far more Israeli civilians and threaten to close the Ben Gurion 
Airport. Israel now knows that if it were to try to defend itself 
against such rockets, it would once again be condemned by the United 
Nations. It will now be far more difficult for Israelis who oppose a 
continued presence of Israeli troops on the West Bank to persuade a 
majority of Israelis that the army can protect them even if they leave 
the West Bank, without incurring the wrath of the international community.
The effect, if not the intent, of the Goldstone report will be to keep 
Israeli troops in the West Bank longer. President Obama was right when 
he said that "the first job of any nation is to protect its citizens." 
The Goldstone report has made it virtually impossible for the Israeli 
army to protect its citizens against rocket attacks from territory that 
is no longer militarily occupied. It encourages Israel's enemies to 
provoke Israeli self-defense measures, which they know will produce 
condemnation of the Jewish state. This is a great tragedy, for Israelis, 
for Palestinians and for all who favor a two-state solution and an end 
to the occupation.

 and one of the freest nations in the world when it comes to dissent. 
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ma � lo stesso dershowitz che voleva legalizzare la tortura?

ma � lo stesso dershowitz che voleva legalizzare la tortura?
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