Apparently, the House is about to consider a resolution harshly condemning the Goldstone Report, a U.N.-sponsored report on recent Israeli violations of international law.  Although the whole resolution is worth reading, I’m particularly stunned by a line suggesting that criticism of Israel might end democracy as we know it:

Efforts to delegitimize the democratic State of Israel and deny it the right to defend its citizens and its existence can be used to delegitimize other democracies and deny them the same right.

I’m not an expert in Israeli-Palestinian relations, and I certainly understand that the United States has always (and will always) fiercely defend Israel.  But do we really need to go out of our way to make excuses for their misbehavior?  Why do Senators who get so angry to condemn violations of international law in our military campaigns (see, e.g., Guantanamo) go out of their way to approve of such actions in another country’s? 

Susan probably has a better grasp of the issues on this one, but something here certainly smells fishy to me.

-Michael