A leading Israeli scholar who helped write Israel’s Military Code of Ethics, Professor Moshe Halbertal, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Goldstone Report. You can read about his views here.
The Goldstone Report has been a subject of conversation in interfaith gatherings between Jews and Christians and Jews and Muslims since it was issued last year. This statement by Halbertal is worth reading by all who are concerned with the continuing dialogue regarding the Gaza War and the ethical issues related to it.
it’s good the jewish week finally caught up with this 3 months old article:
http://www.tnr.com/print/article/world/the-goldstone-illusion
it’s a balanced article on this polarizing issue.
perhaps the reason why it’s been neglected is because it’s been covered up by the strident ‘amens’ from the left and the noisy denunciations from the right.
Jerry Haber, in his blog, The Magnes Zionist, posted an interesting reply to Halbertal’s article by eight of his former students:
http://themagneszionist.blogspot.com/2010/01/response-to-prof-halbertals-article-on.html