RICHARD GOLDSTONE confirms he was a useful idiot. “Some have suggested that it was absurd to expect Hamas, an organization that has a policy to destroy the state of Israel, to investigate what we said were serious war crimes. It was my hope, even if unrealistic, that Hamas would do so, especially if Israel conducted its own investigations. At minimum I hoped that in the face of a clear finding that its members were committing serious war crimes, Hamas would curtail its attacks. Sadly, that has not been the case.”

Prof. Jacobson comments: “The damage Richard Goldstone did was enormous. The Washington Post op-ed isn’t even a good first step at undoing the damage.”