Richard Maize Supports Israel Human Rights Facts in Gaza, Addresses UN Goldstone Report

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Israel Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Richard Maize is openly supporting Israel humanitarian policies in Gaza and the IDF through the creation of two information websites addressing facts on the ground.

Through the organization that he co-founded, the Richard Maize Foundation, he is bringing to international attention the important facts that were carefully but blatantly overlooked by the biased UN Goldstone Report on the Israel Gaza War, which was a reaction to the Arab terrorism emanating from Gaza.

UN Goldstone Report

As Richard Maize relates, "When the UN Goldstone Report was released anyone could see that it was highly biased, one sided, and a pure example of discrimination against Israel." Richard continues, "There was not one word in that UN report that alluded to the fact that Israel was forced to defend herself against 8,000 missile attacks from Gaza.

Only the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and HonestReporting.com had limited and coordinated efforts using the Web. So we created a handful of extremely powerful Web 2.0 PR news sites which were SEO optimized for the search engines that addressed both the UN Goldstone Report and Human Rights in Israel."

Israel Human Rights

The two pro Israel websites are Israel Human Rights and the UN Goldstone Report, both of which have been vigorously passed on through Facebook, MySpace, DIGG, Twitter, Google and Yahoo groups, Wordpress, Blogger and the various other new media social networking websites.

It is important to Richard Maize that the truth about Israel involvement in the Gaza War be made public. The sites address the fact that Israel did not deliberately target the civilian population of Gaza and, quite the opposite, made every effort to prevent civilian casualties.

The Israel army takes important precautions in protecting local civilians unlike any other army in the world. Through the dropping of thousands of leaflets and information sheets into Gaza residential areas, the Israel army made it a point to inform civilians of danger. It was in fact Hamas that put its own population in danger by hiding in and attacking from private homes.

Contrary to the statements of the UN Goldstone Report, Hamas admittedly used innocent Palestinian civilians as human shields. These reports can be easily viewed on YouTube. The Goldstone Report is not only un-objective but it is rife with bias and politicization from the UN Human Rights Council and from its own members. The UN Gaza report mistakenly relied upon unreliable Palestinian “eyewitnesses” in its biased conclusions against Israel.

As Gerald M. Steinberg wrote in his opinion in the Wall Street Journal, “Judge Goldstone's group simply repeated what it chose to hear from carefully selected witnesses. (When Israeli victims of Hamas rocket attacks were given a few hours to tell their tales of horror, photos show Mr. Goldstone taking a nap.) The result vindicated the Israel government's view that the books were cooked from the beginning, including the one-sided terms of reference and the selection of Mr. Goldstone and of Prof. Christine Chinkin, whose anti-Israel prejudices were clear. There is no evidence to indicate that a fair hearing was possible, or that Israeli government cooperation would have made any difference.”

"The Goldstone Report is a field court-marital, and its findings were prewritten," said Israel’s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu."This is a prize for terror. The report makes it difficult for democracies to fight terror."

Richard Maize is a believer in honest reporting, and as such he felt it was important that today, right now, at this time, to attack these false accusations against Israel by creating websites focused on the true events of the Gaza War.

Richard Maize is also active in his local Los Angeles community. It was reported last week that the Richard Maize Foundation is supporting the upcoming United in Harmony Bowl. United in Harmony is a Los Angeles-based charitable organization that was created by volunteers almost 20 years ago. The organization’s aim is to help inner-city Los Angeles kids between the ages of 7-13, most of who are involved in shelter programs for children living below the poverty line. Through free mentoring programs, residential camps for the summer and winter vacations, an annual Christmas party and fundraisers throughout the year, United in Harmony helps to fill in the gaps in the lives of these appreciative kids.

Richard Maize Foundation

The Richard Maize Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded by Richard and Rochelle Maize. The fund supports various local and international causes ranging from health and human services to arts and the environment.