Hybrid States:: Reconsidering Goldstone’s reconsideration

Israel is “vindicated”, claims FM Lieberman about Richard Goldstone’s latest op-ed in the Washington Post, adding that “we knew the truth and we had no doubt it would eventually come out.
”  Netanyahu has gone so far as to demand the Goldstone report be retracted from the UN.
  Among all the celebrations and self-congratulatory pats on the back, it is worth pausing for a moment to ask: what exactly does Goldstone’s latest essay vindicate?