The UN is an organization that thrives on hurling blood libels at Israel. Therefore, when the infamous Goldstone Report accused Israel of war crimes, I shrugged my shoulders. What else is new?
But Col. Richard Kemp, a battle hardened Brit, defends the IDF against a world of lies. And though he was only allowed to speak for three minutes—Kapo Goldstone and his Arab Muslim handlers are a bit touchy about criticism—Col. Kemp is eloquent and straight forward.
The UN Human Rights Council debate on the Goldstone Report predictably saw a line-up of the world’s worst abusers condemn democratic Israel for human rights violations. In a heated lynch mob atmosphere, Kuwait slammed Israel for “intentional killing, intentional destruction of civilian objects, intentional scorched-earth policy,” saying Israel “embodied the Agatha Christie novel, ‘Escaped with Murder’.” Pakistan said the “horrors of Israeli occupation continue to haunt the international community’s conscience.” The Arab League said, “We must condemn Israel and force Israel to accept international legitimacy.” Ahmadinejad’s Iran said “the atrocities committed against Palestinians during the aggressions on Gaza should be taken seriously” and followed up by the international community “to put an end to absolute impunity and defiance of the law.”
What the world’s assembled representatives did not expect, however, was the speech that followed organized by UN Watch. We invited as our speaker a man who repeatedly put his life on the line to defend the democratic world from the murderous Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, and the Taleban. The moment he began his first sentence, the room fell silent. Judge Goldstone, author of the distorted report that prompted today’s one-sided condemnation of Israel but not Hamas, had refused to hear Col. Kemp’s testimony during his “fact-finding” hearings. But UN Watch made sure today that this hero’s voice would be heard — at the U.N., and around the world.
Roll the videotape:
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Hi My Friends!
I thank God for richard kemp and those who use every opportunity to defend israel from the Biased Corrup UN..Sorry,But I cannot tell you how delighted I was to watch this video way back when it came out..The Truth needs to be proclaimed far & Wide,As A Christian i am Ashamed of the way many within the church have also fallen for the lies,But be assured,there is a strong body of believers who would be willing to face death to Defend Israel from such Accusations as we see these days,be assured that those Christians who follow the Bible Also Love Israel and Pray every day for you all! Be assured that the “christians” who Lie about Israel are not Following the teaching of the bible but have fallen into the Big trap,that trap is Anti_Zionism!
I love all the bible,you gave to us,Love the prophecies that Point to your full Redemption,Remember that The Bible does say the world will turn against you over Jerusalem! Zhechariah 12..wish this was read at the UN
SHALOM!!
Chris from Wales,
ps,Who always Speak Up for you,will never Betray you no matter what!
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I wonder if Kemp’s testimonial in the UN is related in any ways to any attempts to arrest senior Israeli military officers while they travel to the the UK.
Because if the Israeli officers will be detained and tried for war crimes in the UK, things will not bode well for UK military personnel who use similar tactics.
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goldstone report is one sided the peace can come only with . this kind of attack on Palestinian murder . but we live in sick world that a crock and a liar report one sided and not what cause this action . if we look why this action happened we see that the Palestinian murder cause at . i even support stronger actin against the Palestinian i think this was to little for the people that support death .
alot of thing wrong in israel in alot of way israel is a dirty country .
yes i am Disraeli i know how dirty inside politic can be . the court and other government institution.
but to bring peace we must attack this people they no other way .
the Arab with help of European and united nation killing jewish people 2000 years
greenfeld
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Well done, Col. Kemp! No body there was listening, but as St. Augustine said “What is wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it; what is right is right even if no one is doing it.”
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Johnny,
What I wish Kemp had done would have been to have recounted how he informed civilians of an upcoming attack and explaining that Israel did more than he did and asking why his actions did not constitute a failure to inform the civilian population of an upcoming attack.
I think it would have made his argument a bit stronger.
David
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soccer dad:
I agree that what Kemp said was wasted on it’s audience in the room. But his message is too important to a wider population than the cowards ensconced in their plush digs at the U.N. Someday Obama will be out of office (not too soon as that would mean President Biden) and hopefully the next president will give the U.N. and the Human Rights idiots the disrespect they deserve.
And it is important for the defenders of Israel to know there are allies in the battle against its enemies. Kemp knew the kleptocrats in the room could care less what he said but he deserves our praise for telling the truth.
David Bernstein over at Volokh has been waging a battle with Human Rights Watch over the way they cover Israel and the ME. It is unlikely they will change but at least he’s getting the word out. Sooner or later the evidence is too big to ignore.
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As important as what Col. Kemp had to say, it had no way of helping.
Goldstone and his pals had decided that if the IDF sent leaflets, the leaflets were not specific enough. Or if the IDF made phone calls, the calls were too confusing.
It also re-defined “knocking” on the roof as a military attack not as a warning.
It really didn’t matter what the IDF did, the Goldstone commission was resolutely against creditng the IDF with giving adequate warning to civilians in the war zone.
Col. Kemp would never have changed the minds of the commission members.
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All the while Kemp was speaking, the members of the council probably never really understood what he was saying just as the kids in the Peanuts shows only heard mwa mwa when an adult spoke. They are as dense as Homer Simpson when the FBI agent tries to get him to understand he is now Homer Thompson in the FBI Witness Protection program.
People such as Kemp have done more for human rights than all the diplomats on the Human Rights Council. The only thing they are concerned with is maintaining their phony-baloney jobs in NYC so they don’t have to go back to their lousy countries.
These are the people that Obama and the democrats (and people like David Brooks) think it is important to be nice to. If they really cared about human rights they would dismantle the refugee camps and tell the people to get on with their lives and quit blaming Israel for all the problems in the world.
But then their jobs would be over and they would have to leave the U.N. and get a real job in their own country.
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“…Col. Richard Kemp, a battle hardened Brit, defends the IDF against a world of lies…”
Here’s a Tolkien quote about survival in the dark days of WW2:
“I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”
JRR Tolkien~On the English people
it’s nice to have some ‘quite big people’ like Col Kemp to speak out too
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