Tel Aviv: This morning I had breakfast with a friend -- a child of Holocaust survivors. Not surprisingly, our conversation included the infamous Goldstone Report which vilifies Israel for defending itself. My friend said that Goldstone reminded him of the Jews who served the Nazis in the concentration camps. "They," he said, "thought they could escape the fate of their fellow Jews by helping the enemy, but they came to the same brutal end." He went on to say that he saw where Goldstone's Rabbi called the person the enemies of Israel are calling a "respected jurist" a man you cannot trust.

We cannot underestimate the dangers of Goldstone's report. Yesterday's United Nations action legitimized this biased report as a tool that will assist the campaign to deligitimize the State of Israel. It is no surprise that criminal countries voted against Israel but a moral crime has been committed by those Western democracies that chose to sit on the sidelines. (Our friend Robin Shepherd has an interesting analysis of the actions of the various countries)

But far more important is to understand the dangers Goldstone creates for the State of Israel.  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wasted no time in preparing for a "lengthy fight" to deligitimize the deligitimizers. He clearly understands that Goldstone's criticism of Israel's defensive action in Gaza is a shot at the heart of the Jewish State.

Every friend of Israel must join this fight against an insidious enemy that wants nothing else than the end of the Jewish State. When an international body gives credence to an investigation based on the fallacious assumption of moral equivalency between Israel and the Hamas terrorists you know the deck is stacked against the civilized nation of Israel. And to reach their critical conclusions they use the testimony of nameless terrorists who placed civilians in harms way. Here is a summary of the problems with Goldstone:

Blocking the Truth of the Gaza War:

How the Goldstone Commission Understated the Hamas Threat to Palestinian Civilians

Col. (res.) Jonathan D. Halevi

• Was the UN commission's approach one-sided against Israel, or unbiased and objective as commission chairman Richard Goldstone contended? Statements of Palestinians recorded by the commission and posted on the UN website provide authentic evidence of the commission's methodology and raise serious questions about its intentions to discover the truth.

• Commission members did not ask the interviewed Palestinians questions about the activities of Hamas and the other Palestinian terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip which could be classified as war crimes or that were potentially dangerous to innocent Palestinians. Furthermore, there was no serious consideration of Palestinian "friendly fire" incidents, and we can only guess how many Palestinian civilians were killed or wounded by Palestinian fire.

• Reports issued by the Palestinian terrorist organizations themselves detailed the fighting in a way that often contradicted the Palestinian witnesses. In addition, the witnesses hid vital information from the commission regarding the presence of armed terrorists or exchanges of fire in their vicinity.

Read more expert analysis here

For years, Israelis have been targets of anti-Israeli forces abusing the European legal system to threaten current and former members of Israel's Defense Forces if they set foot in the United Kingdom and other countries. This has seriously curtailed the movement of Israelis in free and open societies -- societies which often host Islamic firebrands with blood on their tongues and on their hands.

Israel's defenders are constantly under attack and Goldstone will provide Israel's enemies with more legal ammunition to shoot at Israelis who are only guilty of defending their nation in the most humane manner.

In this dark time let us start by sending a message to Israel's Prime Minister declaring our support for his campaign to defend the Jewish State. This is not a battle we can afford to lose.