Six years to set up a full inquiry
By Chris Ames - Last updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009 - Save & Share - One Comment
by Chris Ames
In the Jewish Chronicle Online, my friend and colleague Martin Bright writes about the UN discussion of the Goldstone report into Israel’s attack on Gaza at the turn of the year.
“There is understandable anger in Israel at the perceived arrogance of UK demands for an immediate independent inquiry into the Gaza war when it took the Labour government here six years to set up a full inquiry into the Iraq War.”
I mention this not in order to engage in a discussion of the rights and wrongs of Israel’s attack on Gaza but to note the common perception that the government’s procrastination over the Inquiry has made it hard to take the moral high ground on this sort of issue.
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Comment from Stan Rosenthal
Time November 7, 2009 at 12:30 pm
There you go again, Chris. Any excuse to beat up the government where Iraq is concerned. Did you expect the government to start the inquiry while our troop were in combat? Maybe even from Day 1 of the conflict, with evidence being presented after every engagement? No doubt that would have done wonders for the morale of our fighting men, knowing that their every move was being scrutinised by people like you. Not to mention the comfort being given to the enemy. Still, at least we would have claimed the moral high ground.