Here’s a shocker. On Saturday Adalah NY held another protest outside Leviev, the diamond store owned by a proponent of the settlements, and Alan Dershowitz stopped and challenged the protesters to come in, then emerged from the store brandishing his purchase there. On youtube you can see him grinning as he shows off the bag. Sad. Earlier this year at Brandeis, I heard Dershowitz describe the pre-67 border as "Auschwitz borders," then when I asked him about it he spoke of the arbitrary character of the border and said it gave no security to Israel. Hillel Halkin makes the same point in Commentary this month. There is something self-ghettoizing about this kind of talk. Security will flow from a just peace with neighbors.
The good news here is that as Condi Rice and Annapolis and the IPF and others envision an equitable solution, the biblical landgrabbers are forced to come forward as landgrabbers. Dershowitz’s moment is Brechtian, a grotesque moment in American Jewish history….
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- Settler Calls Jews ‘Revenant’ to West Bank
- Settler Movement Funded by NY Fabric Store Outfit Seems to Include Murderer of Arabs
- ZOA leads Passover picnic in West Bank to honor settler movement
- Sarandon Sees ‘Both Sides’ in Israel’s Illegal Colonization of West Bank
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Comparing real choices for borders:
The settlement maze is far less defensible than the 67 borders.
A fully annexed Palestine would be defensible militarily, but would also require cruelty and political impossibility to occur. Its already been abandoned.
It also upsets me to hear of Dershowitz flaunting it, rather than abstaining, which would be more consistent with his stated opposition to the settlement movement.
Dershowitz has actually been a long standing critic of the settlements. It's saddening to see him apparently take this stand, although I'm not clear from what you write her Philip what his actual positions are. A bit more detail would be helpful.
I think Dershwitz finaly did teh honourable thing – and made his position perfectly clear. All that money from dead African kids caught up in conflict diamonds building settlements for Jews only in the west Bank and here in the good Ol' US of A it's being used to push out poorly paid new Yorkers to make way for folks like Dershowitz who can afford to shop at places like Leviev's shop and Leviev's real estate.
Are these guys anti gentile? are they anti hard working but still poor folks?
I'm sure there are other references to Dershowitz's actual position on the settlements, but here is what I just googled up:
http://info.jpost.com/C004/QandA/qa.dershowitz.html
Joel Farber, Lancaster, PA: What basis is there in law for your opposition to the settlements?
Alan Dershowitz: My opposition to the settlements deep in the West Bank and in Gaza is not based on the law. Indeed I have argued that Jews should have the right to live anywhere in the West Bank and in Gaza, as they should anywhere in the world. I believe, however, that in the interest of peace and the two state solution, the Jews who live in these settlements should be relocated either within the Green Line or within the area that is likely to become the final borders of Israel. The world should recognize, however, that this is in the nature of a compromise and that the Jewish settlers are being asked to surrender their legal rights in the interests of peace.
I'm sure there are other references to Dershowitz's actual position on the settlements, but here is what I just googled up:
http://info.jpost.com/C004/QandA/qa.dershowitz.html
Joel Farber, Lancaster, PA: What basis is there in law for your opposition to the settlements?
Alan Dershowitz: My opposition to the settlements deep in the West Bank and in Gaza is not based on the law. Indeed I have argued that Jews should have the right to live anywhere in the West Bank and in Gaza, as they should anywhere in the world. I believe, however, that in the interest of peace and the two state solution, the Jews who live in these settlements should be relocated either within the Green Line or within the area that is likely to become the final borders of Israel. The world should recognize, however, that this is in the nature of a compromise and that the Jewish settlers are being asked to surrender their legal rights in the interests of peace.
Another Dershowitz quote from the link Harvey provided–
"The fault for all civilian casualties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies exclusively with the Palestinian terrorists, who deliberately create a situation in which civilians will be killed."
What a remarkably stupid and dishonest thing to say. Only the worst sort of propagandist would say this about either side in this conflict or almost any conflict, for that matter.
Richard, if you think Alan Dershowitz "opposes" the settlements, you'll apparently believe anything you want to believe.
Another quote from the article: "It is a myth that Israel receives more money from the U.S. than any other country. Israel earns what it receives through providing intelligence, military and other support to the United States."
Hmmm… Auschwitz border is an interesting concept. I wonder if Dersh was influenced by the depiction of the Israel Apartheid Wall by the political cartoonist and Moroccan artist Abdullah Dourkawi who won first prize in the Holocaust cartoon contest at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts.
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/wp-images/hcartoon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/%3Fp%3D608&h=266&w=286&sz=13&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=23l5p3DPz3ocaM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHolocaust%2Bcartoon%2Bcontest%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG
Isn't Dershowitz that ugly little advocate for torture and bombing Lebanese Civilians. He even defended OJ.
No doubt he regularly receives humanitarian awards from various Jewish organizations.
Harvey,
Saying "Dershowitz has actually been a long standing critic of the settlements" is like saying Michael Vick is an active member of PETA. You are a peddler of misinformation, and frankly an apologist of an apologist, which in my mind is even worse because it is people like you that give him the credibility that he doesnt deserve.
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