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Shooting the messenger won’t help Israel

It’s not a new tactic. If you don’t like the message, just shoot the messenger. Step forward judge Richard Goldstone, veteran of inquiries into atrocities in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, chronicler of electoral intimidation in his native South Africa, and, most lately, chair of a UN commission into the events in the Gaza strip last January.

Conversely, the man described by one Israeli news agency as “an obsequious Jew” hired “to dance to the tune of the gentile landowner”.