http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0803/dershowitz_2003_08_28.php3 Wow!!! I actually agree with Dershowitz for once. Perhaps the Dalai Lama should raise the battle cry? And to imagine that Yasser Arafat for the Nobel Peace Prize. Travesty!
Actually, he was a decent choice, considering that the other two finalists were Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.
Re: Re: Alan Dershowitz blames the UN for terrorism You know, considering the recognition that the Palestinians have gotten by the UN and not the Tibetans, perhaps peaceful resistance is overrated. Perhaps the UN is not for the Gandhi's of the world.
Re: Re: Re: Alan Dershowitz blames the UN for terrorism Nah. The UN just does it in order not to piss off any of the major players.
Normally, I would agree with you. However, if you read the piece, he actually makes a pretty good point.
Have Alan Dershowitz live in West Bank with ordinary Palestines for six months, then come back to talk. Hopefully he is still alive despite Israelis air-ground missiles.
Perhaps if the terrorist bombings would cease, the Israeli actions in self-defense would too. The Israeli's have been far more tolerant than the Chinese. If the Israeli's were Chinese, Arafat would have been thrown out or killed long ago.
I think it will work in the opposite way - Israelis stop their "self-defense" first. I believe the current blood sheds were started by the Israelis' target killing dated back several months ago.
Likewise I recall the current intifadah starting after peace talks failed and Arafat listened to the pro-terrorist forces in his govt. (although you may remember the garbage about Sharon visiting the Temple Mount as the cause). Choose peace and negotiation or choose terrorism and continual reprisals and periodic SS kickings by Israel. The choice is pretty clear for Arafat.
Alex, Israel has been described as the top threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran in a poll.
And polls have also showed that the Iraqi people generally have a favorable opinion of US military action against the Ba'athist regime and would like to turn their country into a secular, tolerant democracy; and that of 15 countries where a Pew poll was taken, in 11 more people have a "favorable" or "very favorable" opinion of the US than have an "unfavorable" or "very unfavorable" (and in all but 1 case the "favorable" is at least 20% higher than the "unfavorable"); the only 4 where this is not the case are Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and Pakistan. But I guess polls only count when they back up your opinion, right?
Nothing more than an EU pole which shows the EU members are interested in supporting terror and oppression rather than democracy. OF course you can't tell the difference between which.
[Kent Brockman]Now this media poll isn't legally binding, unless Proposition 395 passes, and we all pray that it will...[/Kent Brockman] Actually, I find it interesting that no one can really point to the beginning of this present intifada with any precision. It demonstrates the rather complicated nature of this conflict, as well as the senselessness of it. I'm not sure either side knows why they are firing volleys at eachother anymore, they're just doing it out of reaction. One strike leads to another. Both leaders (Arafat and Sharon) are to blame for that.
Dershowitz says "That group is the one that invented and perfected modern international terrorism ¡X namely, the Palestinians. " But I thought Begin's bombing of the King David Hotel was generally considered the invention of modern international terrorism.
The problem is, Alan is a lawyer, not a historian. The quote in the original post of this thread by him shows the color of trolling, intentionally or otherwise.
I hate it when Alan is right, though it doesn't happen often. You hate it too because it goes against your sacred cows. Face it.
That's not true at all. After years of no terror attacks, on September 27, 2000, David Biri was killed in a bombing in Gaza. There's your start of the intifada. Next day Sharon visited the Temple Mount, massive riots, and it took off from there (but, as people always forget, the first bombing was the day before). Ever since, there have been attacks on Israelis nearly every day. So before September 27, 2000, there were no attacks. Afterwards, there have been attacks nearly every day. If that's not a precise start to the conflict, I don't know what you're looking for... (By the way, even if you object to the use of force against Israeli troops being described as "terror", this September 27 date still remains the start of hostilities)