More Evidence of Goldstone Commissioner’s Bias

By Published On: February 10, 2010

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Desmond Travers, one of the four commissioners responsible for the Human Rights Council’s “Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,” or the Goldstone Report, had previously revealed his bad faith by arguing during his “investigation” that Israeli soldiers are uniquely conditioned to murder children.

Now, further evidence of his pronounced anti-Israel bias emerges. A report by JCPA notes that Travers is peddling the “fact” that, in the month before Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, “something like two” rockets were fired into Israel. In fact, in December 2008, up through the 27th of that month when the Operation began, roughly 145 rockets and another 145 mortars were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip.

A Ha’aretz story on the JCPA report adds:

Travers also rejects Israel Defense Forces photographs as proof that Hamas hid weapons in mosques during the conflict.

“I do not believe the photographs,” Travers said, describing the IDF evidence as “spurious.”

Travers also criticized Israel’s past presence in Southern Lebanon, asserting that Israeli soldiers had “taken out and deliberately shot” Irish peacekeeping forces in the area.

He accused “Jewish lobbyists” of influencing British foreign policy in the Middle East and said that efforts to block the Goldstone reports findings have failed.

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