Goldstone: The lies revealed.

It has been well known by anyone who doesn't hate Israel that the Goldstone Report condemning Israel for war crimes was biased and full of lies. Sponsored by the UN Human Rights Council, Israel refused to cooperate with the investigation due to the well known fact that the UNHRC is a biased and prejudiced anti-Israel organization. Finally, Goldstone himself has cleared Israel, admitting that Israel never committed a single war crime.

Goldstone makes numerous excuses, all of which are false.

Despite Goldstone's excuses, his retraction has placed the final nail in the coffin. Israel has never deliberately targeted civilians. Even the Irgun would call their targets and warn them before a bombing. The Stern Gang, the only true terrorist organization in Jewish history, was so small that it makes the Taliban look like the United States of America by comparison of size.

Unfortunately, despite this victory, the damage is done.

Unfortunately, Goldstone’s “reconsideration” will not garner a thousandth of the publicity or have a thousandth of the impact that his original, baseless accusations against Israel drew. Governments – including, to what should be their abiding shame, self-styled friends of Israel in Europe and beyond who failed to vote against this report – will not rush to deliver the apology they owe our government and our soldiers.

They will not rush to recalibrate their policies.

They will not now rush to issue statements expressing their confidence in Israel’s capacity to properly investigate allegations of misdoings by its military, even though the man who had previously given cover for their criticisms has now reversed himself and penned an article endorsing Israel’s processes for self-investigation.

The statesmen and the NGOs that savaged us, using the Goldstone Report as their “proof,” will not now, prompted by Goldstone’s reversal, ratchet up their criticisms of Hamas. They will not now express their outrage at the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to exploit the Goldstone Report to harm Israel – a key milestone on the PA’s road toward international recognition for a unilateral declaration of statehood.

They will not now demand that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas abandon his current effort to negotiate “unity” with Hamas, a terrorist group avowedly working for the destruction of Israel and, as Goldstone now writes, “purposefully and indiscriminately” targeting Israel’s civilians.

They should, but they will not. They have moved on now.

Israel’s guilt has long-since been “established.” And no matter that the man who certified it has belatedly internalized the gravity of the big lie he helped facilitate.

Nor either, pitifully, will the media organizations that so hyped the baseless allegations of Israeli war crimes now allocate similar broadcast-topping coverage and front page space to Goldstone’s belated exoneration of Israel. It will be a surprise, indeed, if we see the world’s most resonant newspapers following Goldstone’s lead and penning texts acknowledging that their reports and their analyses and their expert opinion pieces were wide of the mark.

And we had best not hold our breath, either, for Israel’s own internal critics – including certain widely cited newspapers and so-called watchdog groups that amplified the allegations of deliberate killings of civilians, and that so often seem to want to believe the very worst about Israel in the face of all reasonable evidence to the contrary – to emulate the judge’s shift.

The Jews are yet again the scapegoats of history. Yet again, we have been labeled as bloodthirsty savages despite zero evidence to support this. The world is on a path back January, 1933. The next Hitler will have an easier time. Most of us only live in two countries.