Finance Minister: UN backing of Goldstone report is `anti-Se

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Finance Minister: UN backing of Goldstone report is `anti-Semitic`

By Haaretz Service

Tags: Anti-Semitism, Israel News


Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Sunday accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of anti-Semitism, after the UN body endorsed a damning report on Israel's winter Gaza offensive.

Click here for more on the Goldstone commission report on the Gaza conflict

"This is an anti-Semitic attempt to decide that what is allowed for the United States in Afghanistan, Russia in Chechnya and Turkey in north Iraq isn't allowed for Israel, a state that is trying to defend itself from the Gaza Strip," he told Army Radio.

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The Council endorsed the report on Friday, which was authored by the South African Judge Richard Goldstone. While accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, the bulk of the findings in the report focused on Israeli actions during the three-week campaign.


Steinitz further condemned the accusations against Israel. "We won't let Jews go again like lambs to the slaughter. The Jewish state has a right and a duty to defend its citizens no less that the United States, Russia, or Turkey."

The Finance Minister also accused the Palestinian Authority for taking the opportunity to harass Israel in every international forum. "We will need to think hard if we want to continue giving them donations and developing the Palestinian Authority. We can't continue turning the other cheek."

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"This is an anti-Semitic attempt to decide that what is allowed for the United States in Afghanistan, Russia in Chechnya and Turkey in north Iraq isn't allowed for Israel, a state that is trying to defend itself from the Gaza Strip," he told Army Radio.

Well this part I kind of agree with-I mean it is hypocritical for the US and Great Britain to holocaust the Iraqi people and not have any UN reports and denouncements.  But at the same time these people should know better since they always seem to think that they were the only victims of WW2.

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Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz

what a whiney critter !