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UNHRC’S GOLDSTONE SIDESTEPS ISRAELI DOCTOR’S ENQUIREY…….

For the UN Human Rights Council
its not about truth and facts

Goldstone: I have been given this kind of mandate
by the UN Human Rights Council, what did you expect?

UN Watch, the NGO watch dog that documents UN biases towards/and misrepresntations of Israel, has an interesting video of Dr. Mirela Siderer addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council plenary in which Richard Goldstone was presiding. The man is encapable of answering any criticism of his badly flawed report in an open an honest way.

Dr. Mirela Siderer, disfigured in May 2008 by a Palestinian missile attack on her medical clinic, testifies before the UNHRC:

My name is Dr. Mirela Siderer. I am a gynecologist living in Ashkelon, Israel.
Judge Goldstone, in July you invited me to testify. I told you my story. I am known by my patients — including many women from Gaza. For me, every human being is equal.
On May 14, 2008, my life was changed forever. I was working in my clinic. Suddenly, the building was hit by a missile, fired from Gaza. I was terribly wounded. Blood was everywhere. My patient was also wounded, and more than 100 others. Next month will be my eighth operation.
Judge Goldstone, I told you all of this, in detail. I testified in good faith. You sent me this letter, saying, “Your testimony is an essential part of the Mission’s fact-finding activities.”
But now I see your report. I have to tell you: I am shocked.
Judge Goldstone, in a 500-page report, why did you completely ignore my story? My name appears only in passing, in brackets, in a technical context.
I feel humiliated.
Why are there only two pages about Israeli victims like me, who suffered thousands of rockets over eight years?
Why did you choose to focus on the period of my country’s response, but not on that of the attacks that caused it?
Why did you not tell me that this council judged Israel guilty in advance, in its meeting of last January?
Why did you not tell me that members of your panel signed public letters judging Israel guilty in advance?
Judge Goldstone, you, too, signed such a letter, saying you were “shocked” about Gaza.
But where were you when Gaza attacked my medical clinic, in violation of international human rights and humanitarian law?
Where was this council?
Why were you all silent?
Goldstone’s response was typical for someone that thrives in an organization like the UN:

“With regard to the statement made by Dr. Siderer, I’m clearly upset that she feels humiliated by the report. She was treated in the report in no way different to that of other victims who spoke to us. She was referred to in the report as one of the people who was injured as a result of a rocket attack on a shopping center in Southern Israel. The report also refers to the fact that the evidence of the people who gave evidence to us are available on the website of the OHCHR. It is there for anybody to see.”
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UN Watch Note: “Dr. Siderer posed 8 simple questions. Goldstone avoided all except one, and on this was non-responsive and misleading. Dr. Siderer never said that she wasn’t “referred to,” but rather complained that her story was ignored, and that her name was mentioned only “in passing, in brackets, in a technical context;” and that this underscored how he overlooked 8 years of suffering of the rocket victims. Here is Dr. Siderer’s original testimony; here is Goldstone’s report. Search her name — it turns up but once, in passing, in par. 1640. Goldstone’ s claim that other witnesses were given similar treatment is manifestly false: see, e.g., the report’s repeated and in-depth discussion of witness Abu Askar. What is clear is that the report gives short shrift to Israeli suffering by its selective focus on the period of Israel’s response to the rocket attacks (Dec. 2008 and Jan. 2009), instead of to the attacks themselves (2001-2009).”

With the passing of each bizarre incident happening under UN auspices, at least where Israel is concerned, underlines the need to shut that arganization down, and start all over again, if at all. The UN as it is, doesn’t deserve to operate one more day off of the taxpayers’ money. End the UN and you’ll end the buffoonery that’s been allowed to exist over the past 50 years. KGS

NOTE: Vlad Tepes promises to get the video of Dr. Mirela Siderer online as soon as possible.

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