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I just haven't followed the Middle East quagmire as well as I should, at least not lately.

This Israel-bashing Goldstone Report, sanctioned by the UN's Human Rights Council, is nothing more than a hit piece on Israel. So what else is new?

This HRC 'report' was significantly flawed right from the start. There was no mandate that Hamas would be investigated; only Israel was chosen as the prime target of this fundamentally biased, politically motivated hatchet job, the result of which is another UN attempt to keep Israel from defending herself against terrorism.

The December-January '08 Israeli incursion into Gaza was the direct result of Hamas having, over the course of 8 years, fired over 12,000 missiles into southern Israel. To ignore the crimes of Hamas, as the United Nations' 'Human Rights' Council does, diminished the standing of this report before it was ever written: this report, as a result of the HRC's bias, is less than a joke. Barack Hussein Obama was right to disdain and disregard this. He at least has a peace process in the works, and such a document as this doesn't serve to move that effort forward.

Has not the 'Human Rights' Council not written more reports condemning Israel than any other nation in it's entire history of existence? Then, after the UN picked over the 'best parts' and chose language condemning only Israel, report lead Goldstone himself condemned the UN for misreading the 'Human Rights' Council Report and condemning Israel and not Hamas...

"This draft resolution saddens me as it includes only allegations against Israel. There is not a single phrase condemning Hamas as we have done in the report. I hope that the council can modify the text," he said in remarks published in Swiss newspaper Le Temps.

Why did the UN fail to mention Hamas' using civilians as human shields? Nor any mention of Hamas placing their rocket launchers in Mosques and schools? Of Hamas hiding their operatives in the garb and company of civilians?

Hamas is a terrorist organization. The UN is enabling this terrorist organization by continually appointing flawed organs such as the HRC to write a worthless report, then use only a part of it to condemn Israel for defending herself.  This process cherry picking the results undermines what little credibility the UN - HRC has.

Palestine is Jordan, that's the concept that should be advanced; Jordan should accept HAMAS and Gazans as nationals, allow them to migrate there and move the Middle East peace process forward. There is no Palestine in Israel.

I don't think Israel will be going anywhere anytime soon, and Obama, while being the source of frightful mistakes, won't completely turn his back on Israel. I'm pleased to see that much from him, at least so far. Credit where credit's due, and all of that.