Es stellt sich heraus, dass Goldstone etwas zurückgezogen hat, was er gar nicht behauptet hat. 
Das zog er "zurück":
"civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy”.
Aber:
Yet the original report did not claim that civilians were “intentionally targeted as a matter of policy”. Rather, it described a “repeated failure to distinguish between combatants and civilians [which] appears to the Mission to have been the result of deliberate guidance issued to soldiers, as described by some of them, and not the result of occasional lapses”, and noted that “the instructions given to the Israeli armed forces moving into Gaza provided for a low threshold for the use of lethal fire against the civilian population”.
A callous disregard for civilian life is not the same as a policy of “intentionally” killing civilians. It remains a war crime nonetheless. Nothing that was said by Goldstone’s newspaper article brings this finding into question.
Sein angeblicher Rückzieher war wohl nur eine Reaktion auf die für Zionisten übliche Hasskampagnen. Interessant dabei ist auch folgende Überlegung, dass diese Kampagne selber auf einer antisemitischen Prämisse aufbaut, nämlich einer Umdrehung des Ressentiments, dass Juden nicht dem Staat treu wären, in dem sie leben. Daraus wird nun, dass Juden weltweit den Staat Israel auf jeden Fall unterstützen müssten:
The thinking behind this campaign was overtly anti-Semitic – even though many of its agents consider themselves to be proud Jews. It was based on the premise that any Jew, anywhere in the world, is obliged to give uncritical support to the Israeli state, no matter what it does. This nonsensical doctrine simply turns the old fantasies of European anti-Semitism on its head. The anti-Semitic gangsters and demagogues of twentieth-century Europe claimed that every Jewish person, whatever their nationality, social class or political outlook, was part of a monstrous conspiracy. The modern-day Israel lobby tries to erase the individuality of Jews and force them to adopt a monolithic position of support for “ Israel, right or wrong”. In each case, we find a style of politics that believes ethnicity must dictate behaviour – “we are what we were born to be”. No wonder so many Jewish people have found the pro-Israel lobby repulsive and denied its claim to speak on their behalf.
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