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David Aaronovitch

Where am I?

All arguments about moral equivalence are mined with booby traps, none more than arguments about the Middle East.

Yesterday the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) began a two-day debate on the report to the UN Security Council by a panel chaired by Richard Goldstone. The former South African judge has been looking at Israel’s incursion into Gaza. The UNHRC is poised to recommend to the Security Council that unless Israel and Hamas agree to conduct “impartial and thorough” inquiries into their conduct during the Gaza conflict, indictments for “war crimes” should be brought against both parties at...