Unaffected Considerations

The attorney general, Peter Goldsmith, is considering whether to ask the Righteous State to allow the extradition and prosecution of the soldier who killed James Miller, a British cameraman, in Gaza three years ago. Apparently Miller's family believes there is something wrong in a member of the Israeli Defence Force shooting dead unarmed noncombatants. Goldsmith is also considering a request by Tom Hurndall's family to prosecute the senior officers "who are being held responsible for his death", despite the jailing for manslaughter of the hapless Bedouin who, evidently by accident, put a bullet in Hurndall's head. "I will give this my personal consideration and that will be a consideration unaffected by political considerations," said the considerable Goldsmith, whose appointment by Tony Blair was, presumably, devoid of political considerations. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the current greatest threat since Hitler, I don't suppose the insipid Goldsmith is in line for that particular mantle; but he may well be in peril of falling into self-hating Jewishness unless he considers his considerations correctly.