“The faux liberal apologists are being attacked from the right,” says my friend Ilene Cohen, in passing this along. A settler site attacks Dershowitz.
When will we learn that any land given to them will only be a launching pad for future attacks against us?
What will it take for us to understand this? How many will have to die? And still Dershowitz refuses to budge from his two state model.
Professor Dershowitz please reconsider.
The settlers have eaten the Israeli political structure and are getting ever more aggressive about pushing the Greater Israel brand. So will Dershowitz join Beinart who fears that Israel is committing national suicide? And what will that do to liberalism? To be continued.
Phil over at Huff Po
Rand Paul Amendment Barring War With Iran, Syria Added To Sanctions Bill
NEW YORK — The Senate is poised to consider updated legislation stepping up sanctions on Iran on Thursday, and due to persistence from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the bill will contain a provision making sure the measure is not used as an excuse to go to war with Iran or Syria.
According to a Senate Democratic leadership aide, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will ask for unanimous consent on Thursday to pass an updated version of the Johnson-Shelby Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Human Rights Act of 2012. The measure would go after Iran’s mining, energy and shipping sectors and penalize U.S. parent companies for the Iran-related activities of their foreign subsidiaries.
The bill easily passed out of the Senate Banking Committee, but in March, when Reid tried to bring it up for unanimous consent, Paul blocked it in an effort to insert his amendment.
Although nothing in the sanctions bill authorizes war with Iran, Paul didn’t want to take any chances. His amendment would make clear that nothing in the bill “shall be construed as a declaration of war or an authorization of use of force against Iran or Syria.”
>> So will Dershowitz join Beinart who fears that Israel is committing national suicide?
To do that, he’d have to become a self-loathing, Israel-hating anti-Semite, wouldn’t he? I can’t wait to see what happens… ;-)
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/j-street-s-ben-ami-u-s-congressmen-live-in-fear-of-pro-israeli-intimidation-1.430842
J Street’s Ben-Ami: ‘U.S. Congressmen live in fear of pro-Israeli intimidation’
William Kristol, head of right-wing Emergency Committee for Israel, stuns debate audience in New York: ‘I agree with Obama’s Israel policies to a considerable degree.’
the Douche, oop I mean the Dersh, will take whatever position is the most awkward and gets him the most media time
Phil, in the latest Shalom TV interview with Dershowitz, he actually says he supports the settlers. A total freudian slip, he’s then immediately asked on this and even then he sort of hedges the whole thing. He says he supported the Gaza settlers who were evicted in 2005. But those were far-right lunatics.
And this man still passes for a liberal?
You can see the interview here:
http://blip.tv/shalomtv/dersh_web-6144931
The settlements comments at around 19:00 onwards.
He also says that Arabs on the West Bank are treated better than “anywhere else in the Middle East”(ca 30:30).
I have to admit I am amused by The Dersh. He epitomizes the conventional wisdom and it’s good to check in from time to time to check if anything’s changed or if the people have dropped their mask in a moment of weakness, and such is the case now.