"Do you know what it means to find yourselves face to face with a madman," asks Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV. "Madmen, lucky folk, construct without logic, or rather with a logic that flies like a feather." What is true for individuals is sometimes also true for states.

Justice Richard Goldstone and the United Nations Human Rights Council, sought to rewrite history.

Today, fifteen years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and 14 years after his tragic death, Yitzhak Rabin was lauded by President Barack Obama as a man of peace and courage, who "demonstrated that a commitment to communication, cooperation, and genuine reconciliation can help change the course of history."

The wording of UN Resolution 242 clearly reflects the contention that none of the territories were occupied territories taken by force in an unjust war.

Calls for a freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria – while Arab construction, which far exceeds Jewish development, continues unfettered – are clearly biased and by itself a violation of international law.

"Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation" is antisemitism.

Inappropriate Use of the Fourth Geneva Convention

The following article appears exactly as it was written by Professor Beres 21 years ago. It is especially important to reconsider at this moment, when U.S. President Barack Obama, still-embracing the so-called Road Map, pushes Israel to accept a Palestinian state via the five-part Mitchell Plan.

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations.