George Orwell, call your office

"Anyone who supports the Goldstone report and its conclusions is in effect against peace," the prime minister continued, "since no country, and no people, would be willing to take risks for the sake of peace if their right to self defense was taken away."

Listen, I have some problems with the Goldstone Report (the third of it I've read so far). I hinted at one of them on Monday, when I wrote that the report glosses over allegations that Hamas fighters illegally operated from hospitals and ambulances. I'm sure I'll have more by the time I'm done reading the rest.

But this anti-Goldstone jihad has to stop. Goldstone's team spent three months producing a detailed, thoughtful report -- flawed, yes, but worthy of serious debate nonetheless. From the rhetoric, though, you'd think he just retyped a few excerpts from Mein Kampf and slapped a U.N. logo on them.