MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Behind Goldstone’s Shift on the Gaza War
By Michael Wolraich on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 2:18pm |In trying to understand why he published an essay on April 1 in The Washington Post retracting his harshest accusation against Israel and toughening his stand toward Hamas and the United Nations — an essay that has been rejected by the fellow members of his investigation panel — the South African precedent is important. For Mr. Goldstone, it was the model of how the Gaza report would work. Instead, it helped drive Israeli politics farther to the right, gave fuel to Israel’s enemies and brought no notable censure on Hamas.
“I know he was extremely hurt by the reaction to the report,” said Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Foundations, who has known Mr. Goldstone for years and remains close to him. “I think he was extremely uncomfortable in providing some fodder to people who were looking for anything they could use against Israel.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/world/middleeast/20goldstone.html
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