Goldstone: Report would have been better off had Israel cooperated http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/goldstone-report-would-have-been-better-of-israel-had-cooperated/ Could Israel have helped make the findings of the U.N. fact-finding mission on the Gaza war fairer and more constructive by cooperating with U.N. investigators? en-us uheilman@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-09-22T;18:34:00-05:00 Comment by Evan Zuesse tzur@optusnet.com.au Dershowitz is a very bright man, highly knowledgeable in international law, sharp and penetrating in his analysis of issues relating to Israel, ethical and decent, and has his heart in the right place - he is certainly no self-hating Jew, and obviously is not a non-Jewish antisemite.  No doubt coincidentally, none of this applies to his critics on this website.  Therefore they naturally do not like what he says.  David (whose Judaeophobia has been amply on display in his many postings) simply invents defects, applying defamatory generalizations to Dershowitz that Dershowitz proved with chapter and verse to apply to Norman Finkelstein, a truly horrific and dishonest polemicist and neo-Nazi sympathizer (he contributes publications against Jews to Holocaust denial journals and has also attended Iranian conferences and been happy to be used by Ahmadinejab), at the time of the controversy over Finkelstein’s being considered for tenure at DePaul University (he eventually did not get tenure).  David clearly wishes revenge for that triumph of Dershowitz, one of very many he has had in debates.  By the way, Dershowitz is a Harvard professor (tenured), something Finkelstein could never attain to in a million years, and that clearly is beyond a dream for “David” and his ilk. This does not mean that I support his endorsement of Obama.  Melanie Phillips has the better of him in this (they had a too-fierce stoush in their blogs about some months back).  But both are important advocates for decency and international law (distorted out of shape by leftists, Palestinians, and the UN generally) and for the State of Israel. We can be grateful for him, his legal expertise and rhetorical skills, and his persistence and courage. Dershowitz is a very bright man, highly knowledgeable in international law, sharp and penetrating in his analysis of issues relating to Israel, ethical and decent, and has his heart in the right place - he is certainly no self-hating Jew, and obviously is not a non-Jewish antisemite.  No doubt coincidentally, none of this applies to his critics on this website.  Therefore they naturally do not like what he says.  David (whose Judaeophobia has been amply on display in his many postings) simply invents defects, applying defamatory generalizations to Dershowitz that Dershowitz proved with chapter and verse to apply to Norman Finkelstein, a truly horrific and dishonest polemicist and neo-Nazi sympathizer (he contributes publications against Jews to Holocaust denial journals and has also attended Iranian conferences and been happy to be used by Ahmadinejab), at the time of the controversy over Finkelstein’s being considered for tenure at DePaul University (he eventually did not get tenure).  David clearly wishes revenge for that triumph of Dershowitz, one of very many he has had in debates.  By the way, Dershowitz is a Harvard professor (tenured), something Finkelstein could never attain to in a million years, and that clearly is beyond a dream for “David” and his ilk.

This does not mean that I support his endorsement of Obama.  Melanie Phillips has the better of him in this (they had a too-fierce stoush in their blogs about some months back).  But both are important advocates for decency and international law (distorted out of shape by leftists, Palestinians, and the UN generally) and for the State of Israel.

We can be grateful for him, his legal expertise and rhetorical skills, and his persistence and courage.

]]> 2012-05-24T;14:04:00-05:00 Comment by Thoroughly Disgusted dca_123@hotmail.com Does ANYBODY take Dershowitz seriously anymore?  Over the long haul, he’s proven that he’s no Louis Nizer, Louis Brandeis, or William Jennings Bryan. Does ANYBODY take Dershowitz seriously anymore?  Over the long haul, he’s proven that he’s no Louis Nizer, Louis Brandeis, or William Jennings Bryan.

]]> 2012-05-24T;14:04:00-05:00 Comment by Yosef Hartuv yosefandmelody@gmail.com David Landau’s Criticism of Goldstone: Even the Self-Absorbed See a Problem - Richard Landes Even hyper-self-critic David Landau, whose astonishingly self-destructiive advice to Condaleeza Rice, I’ve discussed before, finds Goldstone unpalatable. And yet, he remains firmly inside his moral narcissism, obsessing over the four-dimensional Israeli soul, implicitly treating Gentiles as three-dimensional bit players, and the Palestinians as two dimensional cardboard figures whose moral angency does not even exist.Even for Goldstone, getting criticized by someone like Landau has to hurt. From fashlah to fadihah. http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2009/09/david-landaus-criticism-of-goldstone.html#links David Landau’s Criticism of Goldstone: Even the Self-Absorbed See a Problem - Richard Landes

Even hyper-self-critic David Landau, whose astonishingly self-destructiive advice to Condaleeza Rice, I’ve discussed before, finds Goldstone unpalatable. And yet, he remains firmly inside his moral narcissism, obsessing over the four-dimensional Israeli soul, implicitly treating Gentiles as three-dimensional bit players, and the Palestinians as two dimensional cardboard figures whose moral angency does not even exist.Even for Goldstone, getting criticized by someone like Landau has to hurt. From fashlah to fadihah.
http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2009/09/david-landaus-criticism-of-goldstone.html#links

]]> 2012-05-24T;14:04:00-05:00 Comment by Thomas Roberts whamslam007@aol.com What gives? D and IS didn’t drop the Zionist bomb here! My challenge to the whole group of faux Israel protesters is to define Zionism and its impact on modern Israel. No one has taken the challenge, but not a single day goes by when at least one of the faux Anti-Israel smearers uses it in describing Israel’s actions. Dershowitz has occasionally drifted into demagoguery, but his mass of work in support of Israel and exposing Holocaust deniers is beyond reproach. Some have threatened to sue him, but he faced them down. What gives? D and IS didn’t drop the Zionist bomb here!

My challenge to the whole group of faux Israel protesters is to define Zionism and its impact on modern Israel.

No one has taken the challenge, but not a single day goes by when at least one of the faux Anti-Israel smearers uses it in describing Israel’s actions.

Dershowitz has occasionally drifted into demagoguery, but his mass of work in support of Israel and exposing Holocaust deniers is beyond reproach. Some have threatened to sue him, but he faced them down.

]]> 2012-05-24T;14:04:00-05:00 Comment by Vlad Observer yancher@sbcglobal.net None of the above. D and IS should be dismissed for their stupidity. None of the above. D and IS should be dismissed for their stupidity.

]]> 2012-05-24T;14:04:00-05:00 Comment by Ira Schwartz uristra@gmail.com None of the above. Dershowitz should be dismissed for his stupidity. None of the above. Dershowitz should be dismissed for his stupidity.

]]> 2012-05-24T;14:04:00-05:00 Comment by David david.ehrens@gmail.com Dershowitz, the stalwart defender of Israel, torture, and Claus von Bülow, and plagiarist par excellence. That Dershowitz? Should he be dismissed for his lack of morals, his habitual lies, or his academic ethical lapses? Dershowitz, the stalwart defender of Israel, torture, and Claus von Bülow, and plagiarist par excellence. That Dershowitz? Should he be dismissed for his lack of morals, his habitual lies, or his academic ethical lapses?

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