being against the goldstone report is a no-brainer. is so outrageous, so despicable that you have to bend yourself into three pretzels in order to defend it. i am serious about that. so when the resolution was introduced in the house of representatives to condemn it, overwhelming majority of representatives voted to condemn it. but it's interesting that the only congressman who voted, either abstained or voted against condemning it were democrats. there weren't many of them, 30, 35, something like that. and it was clear that there was, you know, less enthusiasm about taking it on in a liberal circles and even among democratic politicians. many of whom are afraid of extending their jewish constituents, because they still depend upon jewish support, jewish money. as for the administration, we did, the american representative of the un did i think a vote against sending the report to the security council. and we would undoubtedly have vetoed the report if it had been brought before the security. we may be down but we are not flat as all t

so it should not come as a surprise that the human rights council endorsed the goldstone report. the general assembly quickly followed suit. the high commission for human rights praised the report. secretary general moon has promised to transmit the report to the u.n. security council where only a u.s. veto stands in the way of further anti--israel action. and the i.c.c. prosecutor has announced that he is considering launching an investigation into israel's conduct even though israel is not an i.c.c. member state and has a robust, independent judiciary that is presently dealing with a number of cases raised. these efforts to deny israel its right to self-defense can and will be used to deny that same right to other free democracies, including the united states. why do i say this? well, the i.c.c. prosecutor has already declared that he has jurisdiction over afghanistan and is performing a preliminary investigation into u.s. and nato operations in that country, which could lead to politically motivated prosecutions of our american soldiers. these are the agenda. the era of engage