Kentucky's House Delegation Caves to Israel Lobby. Except Geoff Davis

In late December 2008, Israel invaded Gaza. It kept all press out of the beseiged strip of land, preventing any independent observation of actions by both the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas. Unsurprisingly, accusations of war crimes flew on both sides.

The United Nations appointed experts to investigate the charges, and in September the group released its report, called the Goldstone Report after its leader.

The United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict at the start of this year has found evidence that both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants committed serious war crimes and breaches of humanitarian law, which may amount to crimes against humanity.

And all hell broke loose. If you search the internet for "Goldstone Report" the top links will be not to the report itself but to the many condemnations of the report from both sides, but primarily from pro-Israeli voices claiming that it's a fraud because everybody knows only mooslins commit war crimes.

It didn't take long for the stupidity to reach the U.S. House of Representatives.

Down with Tyranny explains:

H.Res. 867 was introduced by an anti-Cuba fanatic with a huge Jewish constituency, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. She had 202 co-sponsors for a cowardly bill to condemn the "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) to be biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy." It passed overwhelmingly-- 344-36 (with 22 voting "present").

The only members of Congress to oppose the outrageously biased resolution were 33 Democrats and 3 Republicans:

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Geoff Davis (R-KY)

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Although Ron Paul issued neither a statement nor a press release on why he voted no, his unofficial mouthpiece, the Daily Paul didn't get into The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion territory many of his supporters frequent. In fact, they start out with a lengthy self-examination by the Jerusalem Post and point out that "a person would never read such as this in the New York Times or Washington Post or hear it from any US news source. Unlike Israeli newspapers, the US media is a complete mouthpiece for the Israel Lobby. Never a critical word is heard.

This will be even more the case now that the Israel Lobby, after years of effort, has succeeded in repealing the First Amendment by having the Hate Crime Bill attached to the recently passed military appropriations bill. This is the way the syllogism works: It is anti-Semitic to criticize Israel. anti-Semitism is a hate crime. Therefore, to criticize Israel is a hate crime." Democrats had a more rational reason for opposing Ros-Lehtinen's AIPAC-y resolution.

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