Dare defend yourself from terrorist attacks and risk international war crimes prosecution.

That is the lesson of yesterday's indefensible action by the malignant UN Human Rights Council - which voted 25 to 6, with 11 cowardly abstentions, to endorse the Goldstone Report, a document that brands Israelis as war criminals for trying to stop deadly rocket-fire from Gaza 10 months ago.

Ever since Israel's 2005 pullout from Gaza, innocent Israelis were battered by thousands of mortars and missiles launched by Hamas in its war to destroy the Jewish state and kill its people.

And, straight from the devious terrorist textbook, Hamas was assembling and launching its rockets from civilian neighborhoods, near mosques, near schools, near hospitals.

Late last year, Israel...