Warmonger Wrong on Israel’s ‘Rights’
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The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel’s ‘Rights’ [2]
by Nima Shirazi
Renowned torture enthusiast [3] and perennial [4] Israel [5] apologist [6] Alan Dershowitz was in Tel Aviv this month attending an annual business conference sponsored by Globes and, as usual, took the opportunity to equivocate for Israeli espionage [7], defend war criminals, and warmonger about Iran [8].
During a speech he delivered on Sunday December 11, Dershowitz opined [8], “Israel has the right morally and legally to strike Iran just as it did on [the Osirak nuclear facility] in Iraq in 1981.”
This is not a new line for the famous attorney who has worked tirelessly to acquit both aspiring [9] and successful [10] murderers and war [11] criminals [12] and defend billionaires [13] who commit [14] – and millionaires [15] who cover-up [16] – child rape. In April 2010, Dershowitz wrote [17], “I am asserting, in unqualified terms, that Israel has an absolute right — legally, morally, politically — to take such an action if it deems it necessary to protect its citizens from a threatened nuclear attack.” Even as far back as 2005, he told [18] The Jerusalem Post, “Legally and morally both Israel and the United States would have the right to launch preemptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear program. Recall that leading Iranian mullahs have indicated that Iran would use its nuclear capacity to kill three million Jews. I also believe that targeted assassinations of criminals who are illegally building weapons of mass destruction, can, under certain circumstances, be justified morally. I think the legal case would be much harder to make.”
Like everything else The Dersh [19] says, his statements are clearly out of step with the basic tenets of international law … Read More [2]
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[2] The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel’s ‘Rights’: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/12/22/the-warped-morality-of-a-warmonger-why-alan-dershowitz-is-wrong-on-israels-rights/
[3] torture enthusiast: http://www.thepolitic.org/articles/42/an-interview-with-alan-dershowitz
[4] perennial: http://www.hudson-ny.org/260/israel-gaza-and-international-law
[5] Israel: http://www.hudson-ny.org/1909/obama-was-right-to-veto-the-security-council
[6] apologist: http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000705823
[7] equivocate for Israeli espionage: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150635#.TuYTA3O8N3x
[8] defend war criminals, and warmonger about Iran: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150630#.Tues3FZU2uK
[9] aspiring: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/bulow/24.html
[10] successful: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Simpson/Simpsonaccount.htm
[11] war: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-21-dershowitz-karadzic_N.htm
[12] criminals: http://www.euronews.net/2009/03/17/krajisnik-appeal-fails/
[13] billionaires: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/20/jeffrey-epstein-billionaire-pedophile-goes-free.html
[14] commit: http://nymag.com/news/features/41826/index3.html
[15] millionaires: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4215919
[16] cover-up: http://www.salon.com/2011/11/22/alan_dershowitz_thinks_joe_paterno_was_treated_unfairly/
[17] wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-obama-administrations_b_543250.html
[18] told: http://info.jpost.com/C004/QandA/qa.dershowitz.html
[19] The Dersh: http://www.twitter.com/TheDersh
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