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Author of U.N. Gaza report to lecture in Berkeley

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Former South African Judge Richard Goldstone has been tapped to give a public lecture in Berkeley after being named the 2011 Sanford Elberg Lecturer by the Institute of International Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

Goldstone, known largely for the report he filed as head of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, is scheduled to speak from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 in Sutardja Dai Hall on the north side of campus.

The title of his speech is “International Law and Human Rights: The Search for Justice” and it will be open to the public. However, the hall in which the lecture will be held, Banatao Auditorium, seats only 150 people, and no advance tickets are available.

“We’re advising people to get there early,” said Vicki Mach, program manager at the IIS. “Seating will be first come, first served, and we’re expecting a full house.”

Goldstone is a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He also served as the first chief prosecutor of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal in addition to chairing the U.N. commission on the Gaza war. On Feb. 17, he is slated to analyze the role of international law in securing human rights and justice in a world of sovereign states that both support and resist this effort.

For more information on the lecture, visit http://www.iis.Berkeley.edu.


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Posted by sol rosenberg
02/10/2011  at  08:55 PM
Welcome to Cal. Berkeley Judge Goldscum

Well folks, you can bet that SJP along with all the usual trouble will be rolling out the red carpet for him. I can just see the rose peddles being sprinkled along his path to the lecture hall and michael lerner jumping around and waving his arms in the background to get some attention. Cal. had it’s award for goldstone but I’d like to give him one of my own. Best kapo for 2009 award. May an earth quake strike Cal. that day somewhere between 4 and 6pm and bring the house down, literally.

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Posted by Janice
02/10/2011  at  10:17 PM
Sorry Sol

I don’t think that Mother Nature will listen to you. Sorry that you are afraid to hear the truth.

Why don’t you learn how to spell. It isn’t rose peddles. It is rose petals.

You are wrong about how to sepal and you are wrong about Judge Goldstein,

Too bad you want to shoot the messenger instead of listening to his message.

Besides, if an earthquake hit Cal it would hit the whole Bay Area and it might just take down your house and you along with it as well.

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Posted by sol rosenberg
02/10/2011  at  11:14 PM
Welcome back janice, I've missed you

So you managed to lay down your copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion long enough to leave a comment here huh? And for who other then the most notorious kapo in recent history. You must really be thrilled about him coming here. Almost as much as if iran’s “presedent” or hama’s leadership I’d imagine. With all this exciting stuff going on around here next week I betcha we might even be at the same place at the same time. Wouldn’t that be something? I can hardly wait smile

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Posted by Dan Spitzer
02/10/2011  at  11:47 PM
Ignore Jan-Nut

By now, we all recognize Jan-Nut the anti-Semite. And while I and others have had my fun with her, it’s frankly not very sporting as she has been endowed with the IQ of an imbecile.

So, I will say here and every time I see Jan-Nut posting, just ignore her. She is sufficiently infantile that she has no idea that no one other than her fellow Jewish Voice for Foul-Asstinian ignoramuses take any fiction she posts seriously.

Hence, her childish need for attention shouldn’t be acknowledged. So, again I say, we should simply ignore her and let her stew in her own excrement…

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Posted by i-care
02/11/2011  at  09:56 AM
This discussion gets lower and lower

I am afraid all the contributors to this thread shouldn’t have been allowed to publish. The level of the discussion from both left and right is below any threshold of civility that I can think of.

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Posted by Dan Spitzer
02/11/2011  at  11:48 AM
Is Anyone Holding a Gun to Your Head, I-Care?

Just as I don’t read the inane content of comments by the anti-Semitic Jan-Nut, you needn’t read anything I or anyone else writes.

It is my First Amendment right to express myself and it your right to not read my comments. That’s the beauty of our democracy and it’s appropriate that you appreciate what we have in the US and Israel, rights conspicuously lacking in most of the Islamic world in general and the Palestinian territories in particular…

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Posted by Janice
02/11/2011  at  12:17 PM
So sad

I find it so interesting that the likes of Dan Spitzer and Sol Rosenberg can never address the issues but only hurl out their epithets. Tragic.

You really show the low level of your mentality. Other than this I will not lower myself to respond to your total idiocy and your complete inability to respond to the issues such as Israel’s well documented support for apartheid South Africa and for the Argentine junta that was clearly anti-Semitic.

But you would prefer to attack the people who tell the truth because the truth doesn’t make Israel look good, unless,of course, you boys supported apartheid South Africa and the fascist junta in Argentina that tortured my Argentine friend and murdered at leas 30,000, many of them Argentine Jews.

You are the kind of brain washed people who prefer to shoot the messenger rather than to address the message.

You have never been able to refute one thing I have written. You could only sling your disgusting verbiage at me. You know that everything I wrote is absolutely true but you and your ilk would prefer to keep your collective heads in the sand. Keep doing that if it makes you dumb and happy.

Adios boys.

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Posted by sol rosenberg
02/11/2011  at  09:24 PM
We're not going anywhere Janut, and neither are you

This is the internet. It’s not meant for civil discourse it’s meant for hurling insults at people like you. I’m not a politician so there’s no point in having a debate with some progressive moron who’s in an Israel bashing trance. Even if you were to realize someday how stupid you are, how does that change anything as far as what’s going on over there? No my dear Janut I’m afraid the show must go on. Don’t fret, your “Muslim Brotherhood for 2012” t-shirt and complimentary custom hamas kafiya is on it’s way to you in the mail.

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