Michael Oren must learn to divorce himself from believing the rhetoric and propaganda put out by his own Foreign Affairs Ministry. He is expected to be part of the international Diplomatic Corps and this entails crediting the average 'Joe' in America with a modicum of common sense. My father always told me never to treat other people as fools.

But that is exactly what Oren is doing.

That the Goldstone Report is accurate in its findings is not in question. Israel is alleged to have carried out war crimes and as a member of the United Nations, Israel must give up those alleged responsible to be brought before the ICC to answer these serious charges. When 320 children are killed in three weeks on the excuse that they were a military threat to a heavily armed force, then the allegation of a war crime must be investigated. It is not an option.

Israel's alleged war crimes in Gaza have nothing whatsoever to do with the German Nazi Party of  half a century ago - and to try to divert attention away from the key point in the report's finding, is juvenile nonsense - not diplomacy. Grow up, Mr Oren!