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		<title>As Israelis Mourn, Jordanians Glorify a Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The killer of more than half-a-dozen Israeli school girls may be released from prison for his "heroic" act. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-m-dershowitz/as-israelis-mourn-jordanians-glorify-a-terrorist/attachment/4174056668/" rel="attachment wp-att-185917"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-185917" title="4174056668" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/4174056668-450x293.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="176" /></a>Israelis are now transitioning from their annual day of remembrance to the day they celebrate their independence.  But even in celebrating 65 years of statehood, Israel never forgets the sacrifices it has made over the course of its existence.</p>
<p>As Israelis mourn the 25,000 soldiers—young men and women—who have been killed in the course of defending the Jewish state against aggression and terrorism, Jordanian leaders (not including the King, at least thus far) are making a hero out of a Jordanian soldier who murdered 7 Israeli school girls and wounded 6 others during a peace program in 1997.  Ahmed Daqamseh, who expressed pride in his mass murder, was convicted of these crimes but spared the death penalty, despite the fact that Jordan executes large numbers of criminals for relatively trivial offenses.</p>
<p>Now after serving approximately 2 years for each of the murders, he is seeking his release and he has the support of a large majority of Jordanian parliamentarians, who regard him as a hero.  The very word “hero” was used by the Jordanian Justice Minister in joining the chorus calling for his release.</p>
<p>Daqamseh’s mother has said, “I am proud of my son and I hold my head high.  My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience.  My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation.  I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmed did.”</p>
<p>Daqamseh himself has said, “I have no regrets.”  He continued, “The only thing I am angry about is the gun, which did not work properly.  Otherwise, I would have killed all of the [children].”  He also said he would do it again if given the opportunity.</p>
<p>The 13 school girls who were shot by the Jordanian soldier were on a peace mission at a place ironically called The Island of Peace.  It is the man who shot these 13 school girls, wishes he had killed more, and promises to do it again, who is being called a hero by Jordanian public officials.  The silence of King Abdullah speaks loudly about the widespread popular support that exists for this mass murderer of Jewish children.</p>
<p>In justifying his support for Daqamseh’s release, the Justice Minister said, “If a Jew murdered Arabs, [the Israelis] build him a statue.”  In fact precisely the opposite is true.  When a Jewish extremists (not a soldier) murdered Arabs at prayer, the Israeli government not only did not build him a statue, it forbade any statue from being built by private sources and has demonized the killer (who was himself killed), as a mass murderer deserving of no lionization.</p>
<p>Another indication of the widespread support is that 110 out of the 120 members of the lower house of Jordan’s parliament have called him a hero and demanded his release.  They are seeking “freedom for the soldier hero” and saying “we are all Ahmed Daqamseh.”  Leading this despicable effort to free a mass murderer is Ali Sneid, a man who claims to be of the left.</p>
<p>The effort to release Daqamseh has taken on elements of Islamic anti-Semitism by calling the continued imprisonment of this murderer “protection for the herds of the brothers of apes and pigs” and calling the victims of this mass murder by other anti-Semitic terms.</p>
<p>Nor is this hatred of Jews and the Jewish state by Jordanians limited to this particular case, despicable as that would be.  Among grass root Jordanians, particularly those of Palestinian background, there is widespread hatred of all things Jewish, Israeli and even American.  Islamic extremism is rampant in parts of Jordan, though suppressed by its King and his dictatorial minions.  Jordan is ripe for yet another Arab Spring turned winter.  All that stands between the current monarchy and an Islamic upheaval is massive American financial and military support for its charming King.  King Abdullah presents a far more beneficent face of despotism than did any of the other Arab despots who were toppled, or in the process of being toppled, by the Arab Spring turned Islamic extremist winter.  How long this situation will last is anyone’s guess.  But the possibility that before long Israel may have a neighbor to the east who is not as peaceful as the current Jordanian government, must be seriously considered.</p>
<p>If Daqamseh is released and treated as a hero, that unconscionable decision will tell us much about the direction of the Jordanian street.  So next time you see the smiling face of King Abdullah on television speaking about peace, remember that many of his subjects regard the cold-blooded mass murderer of Jewish children as an Islamic hero.</p>
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		<title>Pink Anti-Semitism Is No Different from Brown Anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame on anyone who exploits his or her sexual orientation to promote Jew-hatred.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-m-dershowitz/pink-anti-semitism-is-no-different-from-brown-anti-semitism/1-10/" rel="attachment wp-att-179159"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179159" title="1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1.jpg" alt="" width="267" height="227" /></a>The core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the assertion that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that is wrong is done by the Jews.  For the anti-Semite every rich Jew is exploitive, every poor Jew a burden on society.  For the anti-Semite, both capitalism and communism are Jewish plots.  For the anti-Semite, Jews are both too docile, allowing themselves to be led to the slaughter like sheep, and too militant, having won too many wars against the Arabs.   For the anti-Semite, Jews are too liberal and too conservative, too artsy and too bourgeois, too stingy and too charitable, too insular and too cosmopolitan, too moralistic and too conniving.</p>
<p>To the anti-Semite, every depression, war, social problem, plague must have been the fault of the Jews.  Whenever the Jews appear to be doing something good – giving charity, helping the less fortunate, curing the sick—there must be a malevolent motive, a hidden agenda, a conspiratorial explanation beneath the surface of the benevolent act.</p>
<p>Now the very twisted illogic that has characterized classic anti-Semitism is being directed at the Jewish state, which for the anti-Semite has become “the Jew” among nations.   When Israel sent help to Tsunami and hurricane victims, the Jewish state was accused of merely trying to garner positive publicity calculated to offset its mistreatment of Palestinians.  When Israeli medical teams save the lives of Palestinian children, they must be up to no good.  When it was disclosed that the Israeli Army has the lowest rate of rape against enemy civilians, radical anti-Zionists argued that this was because Israeli soldiers were so racist that they did not find Palestinian women attractive enough to rape!  Nothing the Jew or the Jew among nations does can be praised, because its purpose is always to “manipulate,” to “conceal,” to “divert attention away from” or to “distort” the evil that inheres in all Jewish actions and inactions.</p>
<p>That is the bigoted thesis of a new anti-Israel campaign being conducted by some radical gay activists who absurdly claim that Israel is engaging in “pinkwashing.”  This burlesque of an argument first surfaced in a New York Times op-ed that claimed that Israel’s positive approach to gay rights is “a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violation of Palestinians human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life.”  In other words, the Jew among nations is now being accused of feigning concern over the rights of gay people in order to whitewash—or in this case pinkwash—its lack of concern for Palestinian people.</p>
<p>How this pinkwashing is supposed to work, we aren’t told.  Is the media supposed to be so obsessed with Israel’s positive policies toward gays that it will no longer cover the Palestinian issue?  If so, that certainly hasn’t worked.  Are gays around the world supposed to feel so indebted to Israel that they will no longer criticize the Jewish nation?  That surely hasn’t worked, as evidenced by increasingly rabid anti-Israel advocacy by several gay organizations.</p>
<p>Well, to the unthinking anti-Semite, it doesn’t matter how the Jewish manipulation works.  The anti-Semite just knows that there must be something sinister at work if Jews do anything positive.  The same is now true for the unthinking anti-Israel bigot.</p>
<p>In Israel, openly gay soldiers have long served in the military and in high positions in both government and the private sector.  Gay pride parades are frequent.  Israel is, without a doubt, the most gay friendly country in the Middle East and among the most supportive of gay rights anywhere in the world.  This, despite efforts by some fundamentalist Jews, Muslims and Christians to ban gay pride parades and legal equality for gays.  In contrast to Israel are the West Bank and Gaza, where gays are murdered, tortured and forced to seek asylum—often in Israel.  In every Arab and Muslim country, homosexual acts among consenting adults are criminal, often punishable by death.  But all this doesn’t matter to the “growing global gay movement” against Israel, which according to The New York Times op ed, regards these positive steps as nothing more than a cover for malevolent Israeli actions.</p>
<p>The pinkwash bigots would apparently prefer to see Israel treat gays the way Israel’s enemies do, because they hate Israel more than they care about gay rights.  Nor do these pink anti-Semites speak for the majority of gay people, who appreciate Israel’s positive steps with regard to gay rights, even if they don’t agree with all of Israel’s policies.  Decent gay people who have themselves been subjected to stereotyping, recognize bigotry when they see it, even—perhaps especially—among other gay people.  That’s why so many prominent gay leaders and public officials have denounced this “pinkwashing” nonsense.</p>
<p>Now this pinkwashing campaign is coming to the City University of New York.  A pinkwashing conference is being sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Studies Center at The Graduate Center on April 10-11, 2013.  It will be yet another hate fest against Israel, but this time it will cross the line into classic anti-Semitic tropes.  Don’t be fooled by its benign pink hue, or its academic pretext.  At its core, the newly-fashioned charge of pinkwashing is little different from the old-fashioned charges leveled by brown-shirted anti-Semites—namely, that neither the Jews nor the Jewish state ever does good things without bad motives.  And this time, the hate conference is being cosponsored by the Philosophy and Psychology Departments and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York—as well as by the Center for The Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University.</p>
<p>Shame on anyone who exploits his or her sexual orientation to promote anti-Semitic bigotry.  And shame on anyone who sponsors those who practice pink anti-Semitism.</p>
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		<title>The High Cost of Defending Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why I fight back against the dogs of defamation. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-m-dershowitz/the-high-cost-of-defending-israel/boycott-israel-e1298549258825/" rel="attachment wp-att-176893"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176893" title="Boycott-Israel-e1298549258825" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Boycott-Israel-e1298549258825.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="169" /></a>Whenever I speak in support of Israel or in criticism of its enemies, the dogs of defamation are unleashed against me.  The attacks, all from the hard left, seemed coordinated, focusing on common ad hominem themes.  They accuse me of being a plagiarist, a supporter of torture, a right wing Zio-fascist, a hypocrite, an opponent of the two-state solution and a supporter of Israel’s settlement policies.  All these allegations are demonstrably false but this does not seem to matter to those whose job it is to try to discredit me.</p>
<p>Let me begin with the charge of plagiarism—a charge originally made by the discredited academic, Norman Finkelstein, who has falsely charged virtually every pro-Israel writer with the same academic crime.  In my case, the charge centered around a one-paragraph quotation from Mark Twain in my book <em>The Case for Israel</em>.  I cited the paragraph to Mark Twain, but Finkelstein said that I should have cited it to a woman named Joan Peters, because he believes I found the quote in her book.  But the truth is that I found the quote ten years prior to the publication of Peters’ book and used it repeatedly in debates and speeches.  When Finkelstein leveled his absurd charge, I immediately reported it to the Harvard University President and to the Dean of the Law School and ask that it be thoroughly investigated.  Harvard appointed its former president, Derek Bok, to investigate the charge.  After a thorough investigation he found it to be utterly frivolous.  But to the dogs of defamation this only goes to prove that Harvard must be part of the pro-Israel conspiracy.</p>
<p>The second charge is that I am pro-torture, despite my repeated categorical statements in my writings that I’m opposed to all torture under all circumstances.  I do believe that torture <em>will</em> be used, not <em>should</em> be used in the event we ever experience a ticking bomb situation. Accordingly, I have suggested that no torture should ever be permitted without a court approved warrant, of the type the ACLU has demanded in targeted killing cases.  But to the dogs of defamation, this distinction is irrelevant. Because I am pro-Israel, I must be pro-torture. This is particularly ironic, since both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas routinely torture dissidents, without their leaders being called pro-torture by the same hard left defamers who falsely accuse me.</p>
<p>The most recent unleashing of the dogs of defamation was stimulated by the position I took on a BDS conference at Brooklyn College.  Although I support the conference going forward, and oppose any attempt to censor it, I raise troubling questions about whether the Brooklyn College political science department should be sponsoring and endorsing that advocacy event, if they would not be willing to sponsor and endorse an anti-BDS event by an equally radical anti-Palestinian right wing group.  My position, of course, has been distorted, and I have been lumped with those who would censor the event.  I have been called a hypocrite because apparently the political science department at UPENN once co-sponsored an anti-BDS speech I gave there, despite the fact that I was totally unaware of this sponsorship and would have been opposed if I knew about it.  I was informed and believed until now that the event had been sponsored by Hillel and the Jewish Federation.  Along the same lines, two members of the political science department at Brooklyn College have claimed that my speeches there were sponsored by the department and were as controversial as the BDS advocacy event.  That is totally false.  So far as I can remember I have made three speeches at Brooklyn College:  One, the Konefsky lecture in the late 1960s or early 1970s which was a purely academic lecture focusing on the work of Professor Samuel Konefsky.  There was nothing controversial about it.  Second, a speech I was invited to give when I donated my papers to Brooklyn College.  Again not very controversial.  And third, a talk I gave in 2008 about my teachers at Brooklyn College and about a letter by Thomas Jefferson I had found in a book store.  This can be heard online at <a href="http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2008/05/23/alan-dershowitz-at-brooklyn-college-2/">http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2008/05/23/alan-dershowitz-at-brooklyn-college-2/</a>.  Again, not particularly controversial.</p>
<p>Why then is there such a concerted effort to attack me personally and to question my integrity every time I speak about Israel?  It has little to do with me, because my attackers know that I can fight back and that my academic standing will not in any way be influenced by their attacks.  The attacks are directed at young academics, without tenure who would dare to speak up on behalf of Israel.  The message is clear:  If you support Israel, we will attack you like we attack Dershowitz, but you will be hurt much more than Dershowitz would.  We will damage your reputation, hurt your student evaluations and decrease your chances for tenure.  It should come as no surprise, therefore, that so many pro-Israel young academics refuse to speak up.  I know because they call and discreetly tell me about the fear they have that they will be subjected to the same kind of McCarthyite tactics that I am subjected to.</p>
<p>That is why I will continue to fight back and respond every time the dogs of defamation are unleashed against me.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Jersey city considers paying homage to its most famously anti-Jewish resident. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/alan-m-dershowitz/honoring-an-anti-semite/chester-grabowsi-with-his-campaign-bumper-stickers-file-photo-northjersey-com_/" rel="attachment wp-att-147615"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-147615" title="Chester-Grabowsi-with-his-campaign-bumper-stickers-File-Photo-NorthJersey.com_" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chester-Grabowsi-with-his-campaign-bumper-stickers-File-Photo-NorthJersey.com_.gif" alt="" width="315" height="244" /></a>At a time of increasing anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, it is deeply disturbing that the city of Clifton, N.J., — in the shadows of New York City — is considering naming a park after a virulent anti-Semite and racist named Chester Grabowski, who died in April.</p>
<p>At least one obituary of Grabowski earlier this year innocuously called him an “advocate for Polish-Americans.” But the truth is much more troubling.</p>
<p>For decades, Grabowski published a newspaper in Clifton called The Post Eagle. In that newspaper, Grabowski repeatedly referred to Jews as “vermin,” “animals” and “Christ killers.”</p>
<p>Grabowski refused to comply with the dictates of Vatican II in 1965, which declared it a sin to promote anti-Semitism or to blame the Jews for killing Christ. Instead, he urged his readers to never “forget and forgive them for deciding to kill our God, and their God, which they refused to recognize.”</p>
<p>Nor was Grabowski’s anti-Semitism unknown to people in the area. A 1984 article written about Grabowski in the Bergen Record documented his hate-filled writings and described them as “vitriolic anti-Semitic diatribes.”</p>
<p>Grabowski himself was a Holocaust denier who published material accusing Jews of fomenting anti-Semitism, imposing Communism on Poland and creating virtually all the evils in the world.</p>
<p>Little wonder the Anti-Defamation League, dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, consistently condemned Grabowski.</p>
<p>Not only was Grabowski anti-Semitic, he was a racist who published an advertisement from the Ku Klux Klan wishing “all polenta a merry White Christmas” — and illustrating that racist wish with a drawing of Santa Claus wearing a Klan hood.</p>
<p>Yet despite this well-known and extensive documentation of Grabowski’s anti-Semitism and bigotry, the proposal to name a park — where young children will play — after him has received significant support among public officials in the Clifton area. Among the idea’s backers were Sheriff Richard Berdnik and local Congressman Bill Pascrell.</p>
<p>But when Pascrell learned of Grabowski’s background, he changed his mind, saying, “There can be never be room for anti-Semitism in any context.”  Sheriff Berdnik also withdrew his support.  But some public officials, even after hearing of Grabowski’s long history of bigotry, have continued to push for the proposal to name the park after him.</p>
<p>The primary advocate for this outrageous proposal has been Grabowski’s son, Matthew, who serves as the member of the City Council of Clifton.  In interviews, he claims that his father’s motives and beliefs have been distorted and taken out of context.</p>
<p>The son must be aware of his father’s long history of anti-Semitism and racism. Yet he continues to press for honoring his father, because, he claims, his father did other good things for the Polish-American community.</p>
<p>That is simply unacceptable. The central theme by which the late Grabowski sought to unite Polish-Americans was old-fashioned anti-Semitism and anti-black racism.</p>
<p>This is not about critics like myself misunderstanding the Polish perspective on history. The current Polish government has rejected anti-Semitism and has tried hard to build bridges with the Jewish community and with Israel. Most Polish-Americans today have no patience for Grabowski’s brand of bigotry, either.</p>
<p>If Clifton goes forward with the proposal to name the park after Grabowski, that city and that park will become symbols of bigotry around the world.</p>
<p>Nobody ever tried to stop Grabowski from exercising his free speech. Under our First Amendment, he was entitled to engage in hate speech, just as the Nazis who marched through Skokie, Ill., were entitled to spew their hatred.</p>
<p>But Skokie did not honor the Nazis that marched through its streets. If Clifton decides to honor its most famously anti-Semitic and racist resident, it will stand for prejudice.</p>
<p>I have a better idea about who the park should be named after. Jan Karski was a distinguished Polish-American who taught human rights at Georgetown University. As a young Catholic lawyer in Poland, he documented the Holocaust being committed against Polish Jews, and risked his life to tell the world about it. The street adjoining the Polish Consulate in New York is now named in Karski’s honor, and Karski posthumously received the Medal of Freedom from the U.S.</p>
<p>When the children of Clifton are playing in the park, and they ask about the person after whom it was named, it would be far better to tell them about the honorable life of Jan Karski than about the dishonorable life of Chester Grabowski.</p>
<p><em>A version of this article appeared in</em> The Daily News<em>.</em></p>
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		<title>Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we cannot allow those who employ violence to initiate a debate about the limits of free speech.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/imams.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144873" title="imams" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/imams.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="187" /></a>Now there are threats of violence directed against France for the publication of a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammad in violation of Islamic law.  This is simply the most recent manifestation of a worldwide effort to censor freedom of expression and make it conform to the most radical interpretation of Islamic tradition.  The bounty on the head of Salman Rushdie was recently increased and this distinguished author remains in peril.  Theo Van Gogh was murdered for violating Islamic Law.  And numerous people have been killed as the result of cartoons being published in Denmark and a video shown on YouTube.</p>
<p>I have seen several minutes of the stupid little film that has, arguably, incited so much violence and the deaths of four distinguished public servants, including a United States Ambassador who was uniquely sympathetic to Islam and Arab interests.</p>
<p>There is nothing good that can be said about the low budget film.  It has little redeeming social value and the world would be a better place if it had never been made or shown.  Nevertheless, it would be wrong, and under American law unconstitutional, to censor or punish such despicable expression.  Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views.  It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.</p>
<p>There are several exceptions recognized under American law to untrammeled freedom of expression.  These include falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater, fighting words and speech that present a clear and present danger of inciting violence.  Even if these exceptions were applied to anti-Islamic expressions that would not solve the problem.  It is easy to argue that a video such as the one on YouTube could be banned without doing much damage to freedom of expression, but that would only be the tip of the iceberg.  The radical Imams who incite the violence would not be satisfied until they could decide what could be seen and heard. They want to become the ultimate judges, juries and executioners when it comes to anything that relates to Islam or its prophet.  But religious fanatics who are easily offended by those outside of their religion who violate the rules of their religion cannot serve as censors in democratic societies.  The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.</p>
<p>Those who blame America for allowing what some Muslims regard as blasphemous speech must come to understand that by not censoring such speech, the government does not place its imprimatur upon it.  That may be difficult to understand for people who have come of age in repressive regimes which do not permit any expressions disfavored by the government.  In such regimes, the publication of bigoted materials can be taken as representing the views of the government.  For example, when Iranians newspapers publish anti-Semitic diatribes, the views expressed in those diatribes are the views of the government.  Not so with democratic states.  Indeed it is probably true that more anti-Semitic material is published in the United States than in Iran, simply because so much is published here and almost none of it is subject to any kind of restriction or censorship.  That does not make the United States an anti-Semitic country, but rather a country in which there is freedom to express anti-Semitic views.  It does make Iran an anti-Semitic country, because all views that appear in the media must be approved by the government.</p>
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		<title>Shame on Germany for Circumcision Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every good person should condemn the country for what really lies at the heart of banning the thousands-year-old tradition.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mmw_antisemitism_102609.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143115" title="mmw_antisemitism_102609" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mmw_antisemitism_102609.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>Why do countries with long histories of anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry seem to care more about the so-called rights of young children not to be circumcised than do other countries in the world with far better histories of concern for human rights?  The same rhetorical question can be asked of countries, such as Norway, that care so much about the rights of animals not to be slaughtered according to Jewish ritual.  These questions are entirely rhetorical because every thinking person knows the answer.  It’s not because Germans or Norwegians are better people and care more about children and animals than do Americans.  It is because they care less about Jews.  Or more precisely they care a lot about Jews.  They just don’t like them very much and don’t care if they are forced to leave the country because they cannot practice their religions there.</p>
<p>So let no one praise a nation that murdered a million Jewish babies and children for shedding crocodile tears over the plight of the poor little baby boy who, following a many thousand year old tradition, is circumcised a week after birth.  Every good person should condemn Germany for what really lies at the heart of efforts to ban circumcision—old-fashioned anti-Semitism, a term coined by Germans for Germans and against Jews.</p>
<p>History is not irrelevant in assessing current policies.  The history of Germany (and Norway) in prohibiting Jews from practicing their traditional rituals goes back to a time when overt anti-Semitism was not only acceptable, it was de rigueur.  Today, new words replace discredited old ones.  Anti-Zionism instead of anti-Semitism. The welfare of children instead of the banning of religious rituals.  But it’s all the same.  Anyone who falls for the new pseudo scientific nonsense about the evils of circumcision or ritual slaughter is as naïve or bigoted as those who fell for the old pseudo scientific racial claims of Nazism.</p>
<p>Indeed, there is an ugly whiff of “racial superiority” in the implicit assumption underlying these bigoted laws:  Namely, that Germans and Norwegians are somehow morally (if not racially) superior to other countries that permit such “barbaric” practices.</p>
<p>So let’s call a spade a spade and let’s call anti-Semitism by its true name.</p>
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		<title>National Jewish Democratic Council Doesn’t Speak for Me on Adelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Romney shouldn't be pressured to return the philanthropist's donations.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/shel_2122177b-1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136895" title="shel_2122177b-(1)" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/shel_2122177b-1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="255" /></a>David Harris, the President of the National Jewish Democratic Council, has asked Jewish Democrats to sign a petition demanding that Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican Party stop taking campaign contributions from Sheldon Adelson, and return those already received.  They claim his money is “tainted.” This absurd allegation comes from a highly questionable, if not totally discredited, source—namely a former employee who was fired and is suing Adelson.  He claims that Adelson approved of prostitution in his Macau casinos.  Harris has apparently credited this claim even though no evidence has been submitted to support it and no finding has been made by any court.  Has he never heard of “due process” or the “presumption of innocence?”</p>
<p>I know Sheldon Adelson and I have worked with him on several matters relating to Israel and the Jewish community.  I have spoken on behalf of the wonderful school he has built in Las Vegas.  And have had the pleasure of teaching one of the brilliant graduates of that school.  Adelson was deeply involved in the creation of the Birthright Israel Program, which has had extraordinary success in exposing young Jews to Israel.  It’s hard to find anyone who has done as much for the Jewish community as Sheldon Adelson.  Adelson grew up in Boston in near poverty and is a shining example of the American dream.  He is a self-made multibillionaire who has contributed significantly to the world of modern technology and to the economic growth of Las Vegas and other areas.  His generosity has helped repair the world.</p>
<p>I am a Democrat and do not agree with many of Adelson’s political views, but I think it’s outrageous for the National Jewish Democratic Council to level unfounded allegations against Adelson.  They do not speak for me, and for the many other Jews who admire Adelson’s contributions to the world, to America, to Israel and to the Jewish community.  I don’t know who Harris purports to speak for as President of the National Jewish Democratic Council, but his partisan gamesmanship is an embarrassment to many Jewish Democrats.  The attack comes with particular ill grace from a Jewish organization, considering all that Adelson has done for Jewish causes, and considering the fact that there is nothing uniquely “Jewish” about the questionable allegations against him.</p>
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		<title>Iran Declares War against the Jewish People</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hitlerian rhetoric from the Islamic Republic. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ALeqM5g1ZOIEd7MN54tdVcZ12k20j3Zspg.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136093" title="ALeqM5g1ZOIEd7MN54tdVcZ12k20j3Zspg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ALeqM5g1ZOIEd7MN54tdVcZ12k20j3Zspg.gif" alt="" width="375" height="260" /></a>The Iranian government, long known for its Holocaust denial and anti-Zionism, has now declared war against the Jewish people.  In a speech delivered in Tehran, Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi accused the Jewish people of spreading illegal drugs around the world, killing black babies, starting the Bolshevik Revolution and causing many of the world’s other ills.  His “proof”:  “The Islamic Republic of Iran will pay for anyone who can research and find one single Zionist who is an addict.  They do not exist.  This is the proof of their involvement in drugs trade.”</p>
<p>There are, of course, numerous addicts among Jews and Zionists, as there are among all groups.  Israel has several treatment centers for drug addicts as do Jewish communities throughout the world.  He also cited “proof” that the Jews caused the Bolshevik Revolution:  not a single Jew was killed during that Revolution.  Of course, thousands of Jews were murdered during the Bolshevik Revolution as well as during Stalin’s purges in the decades following the establishment of the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>But don’t expect truth from a country whose leaders deny the existence of even a single gay person in all of Iran.</p>
<p>Vice President Rahimi cited the Talmud as the source of his claptrap and in support of his claim that Jews believe that they are racially superior and that “God has created the world so that all other nations can serve them.”</p>
<p>These bigoted claims would be laughable if they did not have such a long and disturbing history.  Virtually everything stated by Vice President Rahimi came directly out of Hitler’s playbook of the 1930s and Stalin’s playbook of the 1940s and 50s.  They must be taken seriously in light of the fact that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons and has already called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.  Moreover, Iran’s surrogate, Hezbollah, has invited all the Jews of the world to move to Israel so that it will be easier to destroy them in one fell swoop.</p>
<p>Taken together, these statements and actions constitute a clear incitement to genocide, which is explicitly prohibited by international law and by the rules governing the International Criminal Court.  Professor Irwin Cotler, the former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, has drafted a brilliant brief making the case for indicting the Iranian leaders for inciting genocide against the Jewish people.  Vice President Rahimi’s speech constitutes additional evidence of that crime, if any were needed.</p>
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		<title>Trayvon Martin Prosecutor Rants and Whines About My Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angela Corey should go back to law school. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/angela-corey.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134217" title="angela-corey" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/angela-corey.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>State Attorney Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case, recently called the Dean of Harvard Law School to complain about my criticism of some of her actions.  She was transferred to the Office of Communications and proceeded to engage in a 40 minute rant, during which she threatened to sue Harvard Law School, to try to get me disciplined by the Bar Association and to file charges against me for libel and slander.</p>
<p>She said that because I work for Harvard and am identified as a professor she had the right to sue Harvard.  When the communications official explained to her that I have a right to express my opinion as “a matter of academic freedom,” and that Harvard has no control over what I say, she did not seem to understand.  She persisted in her nonstop whining, claiming that she is prohibited from responding to my attacks by the rules of professional responsibility—without mentioning that she has repeatedly held her own press conferences and made public statements throughout her career.</p>
<p>Her beef was that I criticized her for filing a misleading affidavit that willfully omitted all information about the injuries Zimmerman had sustained during the “struggle” it described.  She denied that she had any obligation to include in the affidavit truthful material that was favorable to the defense.  She insisted that she is entitled to submit what, in effect, were half truths in an affidavit of probable cause, so long as she subsequently provides the defense with exculpatory evidence.  She should go back to law school, where she will learn that it is never appropriate to submit an affidavit that contains a half truth, because a half truth is regarded by the law as a lie, and anyone who submits an affidavit swears to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.</p>
<p>Before she submitted the probable cause affidavit, Corey was fully aware that Zimmerman had sustained serious injuries to the front and back of his head.  The affidavit said that her investigators “reviewed” reports, statements and “photographs” that purportedly “detail[ed] the following.” It then went on to describe “the struggle,” but it deliberately omitted all references to Zimmerman’s injuries which were clearly visible in the photographs she and her investigators reviewed.  That is Hamlet without the Prince! The judge deciding whether there is probable cause to charge the defendant with second degree murder should not have been kept in the dark about physical evidence that is so critical to determining whether a homicide occurred, and if so, a homicide of what degree.  By omitting this crucial evidence, Corey deliberately misled the court.</p>
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		<title>Friends Seminary Plays Bait and Switch on Anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prestigious school gives students a lesson in breaking promises and accepting Jew hatred. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_123749" style="width: 385px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/8cbe196a97932aaea5b97753df65-grande.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-123749" title="8cbe196a97932aaea5b97753df65-grande" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/8cbe196a97932aaea5b97753df65-grande.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Friends Seminary invitee Gilad Atzmon</p></div>
<p>The Friends Seminary of New York, which invited the notorious anti-Semite, Gilad Atzmon, to one of its classes, and assigned its students to read his hate-filled writings, has now backed out of an agreement to invite me to the school to talk to the students about the evils of anti-Semitism.  The Headmaster of the Friends Seminary, a school which is supposed to be committed to honesty and integrity, has broken his solemn promise to me, and to members of its own community, to allow its students to hear both sides of an issue which really has only one side:  namely, the illegitimacy of bringing hate mongers into high school classrooms.</p>
<p>After I exposed the original invitations to Gilad Atzmon—who justifies the burning down of synagogues as a “reasonable” response to Jewish efforts to “control the world”—the Headmaster of the school agreed to several things.  First, he would speak at an assembly to the students about the evils of anti-Semitism;  second, he would assign my essay to the students who were assigned Atzmon’s essay; and third, he would invite me to address the students.  He has now broken each of these promises.</p>
<p>Students who were at the assembly have confirmed that the speakers only made things worse.  The teacher who invited Atzmon talked about what a great musician he was.  The Headmaster was defensive about how his words were manipulate and justified bringing Atzmon based on Quaker principles.  Apparently the word anti-Semitism was never once mentioned during this meeting.  My article was not assigned to the students; a citation was sent to them saying that I wanted students to read its content.</p>
<p>When I wrote to the Headmaster complaining about these breaches, they used my letter as an excuse for canceling my appearance.  The real reason was almost certainly pressure from hard-left members of his faculty and others.</p>
<p>Let’s be clear what this means.  The school was unwilling to cancel Atzmon’s appearance, even after learning that he was a virulent anti-Semite who questions the Holocaust but believes that it may be true that Jews kill Christians to use their blood for religious purposes.  But they have canceled my appearance because they didn’t like the tone of a private letter that I wrote to them that was critical of the Headmaster’s failure to comply with his promises.  I ended my letter with the following words:  “Please assure me that I am wrong about my judgment about you.  I really would like to see this move forward in a positive direction, but you are not helping.  The ultimate sufferers are your students, who are being taught the wrong values that will serve them poorly in college and in life.”</p>
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		<title>Who Are America’s Reliable Allies?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An already short list gets shorter. ]]></description>
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<p>In a quickly changing world, it is important to ask which countries the United States can always count on in times of crisis.  Recent events have shortened that list considerably.</p>
<p>India has long claimed to be a reliable ally, but it is now undercutting American efforts to impose meaningful sanctions against Iran.  Its help cannot any longer be counted on in the struggle against the greatest danger faced by the United States—an Iran with nuclear weapons.  Japan, another ally, is dilly dallying on sanctions as well.  Brazil used to be a reliable partner, until it began to fall under the sway of Venezuela’s Chavez, who is closely allied with Iran and other American enemies.  The “new” Russia and China demonstrated their lack of reliability when they vetoed American efforts in the Security Council to help resolve the Syrian crisis.  Egypt, which has received billions of dollars of American aid, has defied American warnings not to put US citizens on trial on phony, trumped-up charges.  Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are now playing footsy with Hamas and Hezbollah, also Iranian surrogates, as they worry about the contagion of the Arab Spring and the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>It turns out that other than Europe, Israel may be America’s only remaining reliable ally.  And even some European countries, such as France, Sweden and Norway, are in doubt.</p>
<p>Israel will always remain a strong American ally because it shares an American commitment to democracy, to freedom of religion, to freedom of expression and to an open market economy.  It also shares a common commitment to fight against terrorism and other threats to the security of the United States—a commitment that is less that vigorous among some European countries.</p>
<p>Some political scientists and state department officials, who call themselves “realists”, question Israel’s value as an American ally.  They are wrong, and recent events confirm how wrong they are and have been.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that America helps Israel enormously, as it should help those who share our democratic values. But there is also no doubt that Israel helps the United States considerably, by sharing its extraordinary intelligence-gathering capabilities, its military R&amp;D, its computer know-how and other intangibles.  As other nations in the region debate whether American troops should even be allowed to set foot on their territory, Israel welcomes the American military to engage in joint exercises.  In its nearly 64 years of existence, Israel has never asked for a single American soldier to fight its battles.  It fights its own battles while assisting the American military in defending our country against terrorism and other threats to our citizens.</p>
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		<title>Iran Has Declared War Against Israel and the Jewish People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the U.S. must now state unequivocally.]]></description>
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<p>If Iran is indeed behind the spate of recent bombings and foiled attacks that have targeted Israeli and Jewish civilian institutions in India, Georgia, Azerbajan and Thailand—as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has alleged—then it has become crystal clear that Iran is at war with Israel, Zionism and Jewish communities throughout the world.  The Rajah news website, which is identified with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad, has expressly threatened to “take the war beyond the borders of Iran, and beyond the borders of the region.” A recent Iranian News Agency headline declared that, “Israeli people must be annihilated,” and a strategist close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei has released a report providing a religious and legal justification for a final attack against Israel and the Jewish people by 2014.  Over the past week, news reports have circulated that Jewish and Israeli institutions in the United States have been placed on high alert over intelligence reports that Iran or one of its proxies may target them.  Iran’s supreme Khamenei himself has also recently promised that “the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated.”</p>
<p>These and other recent threats and attacks have led Israeli and American authorities to believe that Iran is preparing attacks against Israeli embassies and consulates as well as Jewish houses of prayer, schools, community centers, restaurants and other soft Jewish targets.</p>
<p>This is not the first time that Iranian agents have bombed or attacked Israeli and Jewish targets in distant countries.  Back in 1992, Iranian agents blew up the Israeli embassy and a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing and injuring hundreds of civilians, many of whom were children.  The Argentine government conducted a thorough criminal investigation and indicted several Iranian officials.  But these officials were well beyond the reach of Argentine legal authorities and remain at liberty.</p>
<p>If Iranian agents were to attack Israeli or Jewish soft targets in the United States, the United States should deem any such action as an armed military attack on the United States.  It should not treat it the way the Argentine authorities did, merely as a criminal act.  Under international law, an attack on an embassy is an attack both on the embassy’s country and on the country in which the embassy is located.  An attack against a nation’s citizens on its territory is also an act of armed aggression under the United Nations Charter that justifies retaliatory military action.</p>
<p>In light of the deliberately provocative statements recently issued from Iran, the United States should now publicly announce that any attack by Iranian agents against any American citizen, institution or religious group will be considered a military attack by Iran against the United States and that the United States will—not may, but will—retaliate militarily, at a time and place of its choosing.  An attack on an American synagogue is no different than an attack on the World Trade Center or on American aviation.  We correctly regarded those attacks as acts of war committed by the Taliban and facilitated by the government of Afghanistan and we responded militarily.  Similarly, an attack by Iranian agents on a Jewish (or any other) American target should be deemed a military attack requiring retaliation.  All American citizens, regardless of their religious affiliation, are equally entitled to the protection of the American military.</p>
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		<title>Friends Seminary Legitimates Anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are rabid Jew-haters the only bigots elite schools will invite onto their campuses?]]></description>
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<p>If you want to understand why anti-Semitism seems to be increasing among young people—especially young people on the hard left—consider a recent invitation extended by a left leaning school in New York to a self-proclaimed Jew hater.</p>
<p>The Friends Schools around the country are legendary.  Presidents’ children attend them, my own daughter and nephew were students, and they are regarded as among the most elite schools in the world.  That is why it is so shocking that the Friends Seminary in New York has lent its imprimatur to a notorious anti-Semite and Holocaust denier.  Friends Seminary has a reputation for propagandizing its students against Israel, but it has now crossed a red line into legitimating anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Gilad Atzmon, who was invited to be a featured performer in a celebration of Martin Luther King at the Friends Meeting House, has written an overtly anti-Semitic book entitled “The Wandering Who?”, which, he acknowledges, draws…much of his “insights from a man who…was an anti-Semite as well as a radical misogynist.”</p>
<p>Among the “insights”  Atzmon seeks to share with students are the following:</p>
<p>While the Holocaust “was not at all an historical narrative,” and Auschwitz was not a “death camp,” the “accusations of Jews making matzo out of young Goyim’s blood,” may be true.</p>
<p>“The Jews” caused the recent credit crunch, which the author calls “the Zio-punch.”</p>
<p>If Iran and Israel fight a nuclear war that kills millions of people, “some may be bold enough to argue that ‘Hitler might have been right after all.’”</p>
<p>The “new Jewish religion…could well be the most sinister religion known to man…”</p>
<p>The author of the book containing these statements has told students that he cannot “say whether it’s right or not to burn down a synagogue. I can say that it is a rational act.” He has also apologized to the Nazis for having earlier compared them to Israel:  “Israel is in fact far worse than Nazi Germany.”</p>
<p>He has written that we “must begin to take the accusation that the Jewish people are trying to control the world very seriously,” and that “with Fagin and Shylock in mind, Israeli barbarism and organ trafficking seem to be just other events in an endless hellish continuum.”</p>
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		<title>Why Anti-Semitism Is Moving Toward the Mainstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enablers and the perpetrators. ]]></description>
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<p>For the first time since the end of World War II, classic anti-Semitic tropes—“the Jews” control the world and are to blame for everything that goes wrong, including the financial crisis; The Jews killed Christian children in order to use the blood to bake Matzo; the Holocaust never happened—are becoming acceptable and legitimate subjects for academic and political discussion.  To understand why these absurd and reprehensible views, once reserved for the racist fringes of academia and politics, are now moving closer to the mainstream, consider the attitudes of two men, one an academic, the other a politician, toward those who express or endorse such bigotry.  The academic is Professor Brian Leiter.  The politician is Ron Paul.</p>
<p>You’ve probably never heard of Leiter.  He’s a relatively obscure professor of jurisprudence, who is trying to elevate his profile by publishing a gossipy blog about law school professors.  He is a colleague of John Mearsheimer, a prominent and world famous professor at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Several months ago Mearsheimer enthusiastically endorsed a book, really a pamphlet, that included all the classic anti-Semitic tropes.  It was entitled “The Wandering Who” and written by Gilad Atzmon, a British version of David Duke, who plays the saxophone and has no academic connections.  Atzmon writes that we must take “very seriously” the claim that “the Jewish people are trying to control the world.” He calls the recent credit crunch “the Zio punch.” He says “the Holocaust narrative” doesn’t make “historical sense” and expresses doubt that Auschwitz was a death camp.  He invites students to accept the “accusations of Jews making Matzo out of young Goyim’s blood.”</p>
<p>Books and pamphlets of this sort are written every day by obscure anti-Semites and published by disreputable presses that specialize in this kind of garbage.  No one ever takes notice, except for neo-Nazis around the world who welcome any additions to the literature of hate.</p>
<p>What is remarkable about the publication of this hateful piece of anti-Semitic trash, is that it was enthusiastically endorsed by two prominent American professors, John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk, who urged readers, including students, to read, “reflect upon” and “discuss widely” the themes of Atzmon’s book.  Never before has any such book received the imprimatur of such established academics.</p>
<p>I was not shocked by these endorsements, because I knew that both of these academics had previously crossed “red lines,” separating legitimate criticism of Israel from subtle anti-Semitism.  Mearsheimer has accused American Jews of dual loyalty, and Falk has repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany.  Both were so enthusiastic about Atzmon’s anti-Zionism—he has written that Israel is “worse” than the Nazis—that they were prepared to give him a pass on his classic “blood libel” anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.  No great surprise there.</p>
<p>What was surprising—indeed shocking—was the fact that Mearsheimer’s relatively apolitical colleague, Brian Leiter, rushed to Mearsheimer’s defense.  Without bothering even to read Atzmon’s book, Leiter pronounced that Atzmon’s “positions [do not mark him] as an anti-Semite [but rather as] cosmopolitan.” Leiter also certified that Atzmon “does not deny the Holocaust or the gas chambers.” Had Leiter read the book, he could not have made either statement.</p>
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		<title>John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk Endorse a Blatantly Anti-Semitic Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>As the discourse about Israel on university campuses continues to degenerate, there is growing concern that some of Israel’s most vocal detractors are crossing a red line between acceptable criticism of Israel and legitimizing anti-Semitism. The recent endorsements by several internationally prominent academics—including John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Richard Falk of Princeton—of an overtly anti-Semitic book written by a notorious Jew-hater illustrate this dangerous trend.</p>
<p>The book in question is entitled The Wandering Who? and was written by Gilad Atzmon, a British jazz musician. Lest there be any doubt about Atzmon’s anti-Semitic credentials, listen to his self-description in the book itself. He <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=028jkw0GVY4C&amp;pg=PA89&amp;lpg=PA89&amp;dq=the+wandering+who+drawing+many+of+my+insights+from+a+man+who+…+was+an+anti-Semite+as+well+as+a+radical+misogynist&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=DGMpcsaUzg&amp;sig=GQLmbytktOXFPyC1IX2psN7C9vs&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=qxq3TuG9Msec2AWUy-GrBA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=7&amp;ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">boasts</a> about “drawing many of my insights from a man who … was an anti-Semite as well as a radical misogynist” and a hater of “almost everything that fails to be Aryan masculinity” (89-90). He declares himself a “proud, self-hating Jew” (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=028jkw0GVY4C&amp;pg=PA54&amp;dq=the+wandering+who+self-hating+jew&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=CRu3Tq7jJY3K0AHu24HSBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">54</a>), writes with “contempt” of “the Jew in me” (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=028jkw0GVY4C&amp;pg=PA54&amp;dq=the+wandering+who+self-hating+jew&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=CRu3Tq7jJY3K0AHu24HSBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">94</a>), and describes himself as “a strong opponent of … Jewish-ness” (186). His writings, both online and in his new book, brim with classic anti-Semitic motifs that are borrowed from Nazi publications:</p>
<p>Throughout his writings, Atzmon argues that <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040114024643/http:/www.gilad.co.uk/Anti%20Semi.html">Jews seek to control the world</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>“[W]e must begin to take the accusation that the Jewish people are trying to control the world very seriously.”</li>
<li>“American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the elder of Zion’ [sic] are an authentic document or rather a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do try to control the world, by proxy.”</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon expands on this theme in The Wandering Who?, repeatedly conflating “the Jews” and “the Zionist”:</p>
<ul>
<li>He calls the recent credit crunch “the Zio-punch” (22) and says it was not “a Jewish conspiracy” because “it was all in the open” (30).</li>
<li>Paul Wolfowitz, Rahm Emmanuel, and other members of “the Jewish elite” remain abroad instead of moving to “Zion” because they “have proved far more effective for the Zionist cause by staying where they are” (19).</li>
<li>The American media “failed to warn the American people of the enemy within” because of money (27).</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon has written that Jews are evil and a menace to humanity:</p>
<ul>
<li>“<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/symbolic-identifiers-and-jewish-stereotypes-by-gilad-atzmon.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEv2w66jh9_x8oeqzDhI3XSQLlBug">With Fagin and Shylock in mind</a> Israeli barbarism and organ trafficking seem to be just other events in an endless hellish continuum.”</li>
<li>“<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ericwalberg.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=382:atzmon-on-jewishness-jezebels-legacy&amp;catid=44:books-of-interest&amp;Itemid=97">The Homo Zionicus quickly became</a> a mass murderer, detached from any recognised form of ethical thinking and engaged in a colossal crime against humanity.”</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon rehearses many of these ideas in The Wandering Who?:</p>
<ul>
<li>“[T]o be a Jew is a deep commitment that goes far beyond any legal or moral order” (20) and this commitment “pulls more and more Jews into an obscure, dangerous and unethical fellowship” (21).</li>
<li>If Iran and Israel fight a nuclear war that kills tens of millions of people, “some may be bold enough to argue that ‘Hitler might have been right after all’” (179).</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon regularly urges his readers to doubt the Holocaust and to reject Jewish history:</p>
<ul>
<li>“It took me years to accept that the Holocaust narrative, in its current form, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/truth-history-and-integrity-by-gilad-atzmon.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2jgsyDreO-n25cE9iL-GE7-mKmA">doesn’t make any historical sense</a>. … If, for instance, the Nazis wanted the Jews out of their Reich (Judenrein—free of Jews), or even dead, as the Zionist narrative insists, how come they marched hundreds of thousands of them back into the Reich at the end of the war?”</li>
<li>“<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ericwalberg.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=382:atzmon-on-jewishness-jezebels-legacy&amp;catid=44:books-of-interest&amp;Itemid=97">[E]ven if we accept</a> the Holocaust as the new Anglo-American liberal-democratic religion, we must allow people to be atheists.”</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon reprises some of this language in The Wandering Who?:</p>
<ul>
<li>Children should be allowed to question, as he did, “how the teacher could know that these accusations of Jews making Matza out of young Goyim’s blood were indeed empty or groundless” (185).</li>
<li>“The Holocaust religion is probably as old as the Jews themselves” (153).</li>
<li>The history of Jewish persecution is a myth, and if there was any persecution the Jews brought it on themselves (175, 182).</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon argues that Jews are corrupt and responsible for “why” they are “hated”:</p>
<ul>
<li>“[I]n order to promote Zionist interests,<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040114024643/http:/www.gilad.co.uk/Anti%20Semi.html"> Israel must generate</a> significant anti-Jewish sentiment. Cruelty against Palestinian civilians is a favourite Israeli means of achieving this aim.”</li>
<li>“<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gilad.co.uk/the-wandering-who/2011/9/27/silvia-cattori-interviews-gilad-atzmon.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEq8qYFxXKoOswPY9oroHUjGQX9A">Jews may have managed</a> to drop their God, but they have maintained goy-hating and racist ideologies at the heart of their newly emerging secular political identity. This explains why some Talmudic goy-hating elements have been transformed within the Zionist discourse into genocidal practices.”</li>
</ul>
<p>Atzmon returns to this theme repeatedly in The Wandering Who?:</p>
<ul>
<li>The “Judaic God” described in Deuteronomy 6:10-12 “is an evil deity, who leads his people to plunder, robbery and theft” (120). Atzmon explains that “Israel and Zionism … have instituted the plunder promised by the Hebrew God in the Judaic holy scriptures” (121).</li>
<li>The moral of the Book of Esther is that Jews “had better infiltrate the corridors of power” if they wish to survive (158).</li>
</ul>
<p>Finally, Atzmon repeatedly declares that Israel is worse than the Nazis and has actually “apologized” to the Nazis for having earlier compared them to Israel:</p>
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<li>“<a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-banality-of-jewish-symbolism-by-gilad-atzmon.html">Many of us including me tend to equate Israel to Nazi Germany</a>. Rather often I myself join others and argue that Israelis are the Nazis of our time. I want to take this opportunity to amend my statement. Israelis are not the Nazis of our time and the Nazis were not the Israelis of their time. Israel, is in fact far worse than Nazi Germany and the above equation is simply meaningless and misleading.”</li>
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<p>In light of this Der Stürmer-like bigotry against Jews, it should come as no surprise that even some of the most hard-core anti-Israel activists have shunned Atzmon out of fear that his anti-Semitism will discredit their cause. Tony Greenstein, a self-styled “<a href="http://azvsas.blogspot.com/">anti-Zionist</a>” who recently participated in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2011/09/victory-as-israeli-philharmonic.html">unprecedented disruption</a> of an Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert in London (which Greenstein <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/06/discord-over-israeli-prom-protest">compared to protesting</a> the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1930s), <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2011/10/leaflet-atzmons-book-launch-october.html">denounced</a> The Wandering Who? as “a poisonous anti-Semitic tome.” Sue Blackwell, who <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/apr/23/internationaleducationnews.highereducation">co-wrote</a> the Association of University Teachers’ motion to boycott Israeli universities in 2005, removed all links to Atzmon from her website and placed Atzmon on her list of “<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sue.be/pal/nasties.html">nasties</a>” along with David Irving and Israel Shamir. Socialist Worker, a website that frequently refers to Israeli “apartheid” and publishes articles with titles such as “<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://socialistworker.org/2011/06/08/israels-murderous-violence">Israel’s murderous violence</a>,” removed an interview with Atzmon and called the evidence of Atzmon’s anti-Semitism “<a href="http://socialistworker.org/2010/07/15/no-place-for-atzmon-at-sw">damning</a>.” At least ten authors associated with the Leftist publisher that published The Wandering Who? have called on the publisher to distance itself from Atzmon’s views, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://leninology.blogspot.com/2011/09/zero-authors-statement-on-gilad-atzmon.html">explaining</a> that the “thrust of Atzmon’s work is to normalise and legitimise anti-Semitism.”</p>
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		<title>Conviction of the “Irvine Ten” is Constitutionally Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Ten students who set out to prevent Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren from speaking to students at the University of California Irvine campus have been convicted of a California misdemeanor and sentenced to probation and a fine.  The California statute is designed to protect the First Amendment rights of a speaker and his audience against those who would censor the speaker by deliberately disruptive conduct.  The conduct engaged in by the students, acting on behalf of a University of California Muslim group, was more than merely disruptive in the sense of episodic booing or heckling.  It was calculated to “shut down”, in the words of one of the students, Ambassador Oren.  In such a case, the First Amendment is clearly on the side of the prosecutor who seeks to prevent the censorship of protected speech, rather than on the side of those who have conspired to censor speech with which they disagree.</p>
<p>No reputable constitutional scholar would defend the right of students to conspire to prevent an invited speaker from presenting his speech.  Most universities have rules prohibiting the “heckler’s veto” from silencing an invited speaker.  Yet, because the students in this case were Muslims who were trying to prevent an Israeli diplomat from speaking, many on the hard left are making heroes of these ten censors, and villains of prosecutors who did their duty in protecting the First Amendment.  Even the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, which is supposed to protect the First Amendment right of speakers, came down on the wrong side of this issue.</p>
<p>The Dean of the University of California at Irvine Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky, has tried to split the difference by arguing that the conviction was constitutional, that the “jury which found them guilty faithfully applied [the] law to the facts of this case,” but that the prosecutor who brought the case against these students “failed in his most important duty: to do justice.”  While I understand why a dean might take this somewhat convoluted position on prudential grounds, Chemerinsky’s argument simply doesn’t hold water.</p>
<p>Chemerinsky “strongly disagree[s] with those who try to defend the students as engaging in free speech.”  He acknowledges that “the First amendment does not protect the right of people to go into an auditorium and try to shout down a speaker.”  He is right in concluding that “no court would find that the students were engaged in protected speech.”  So far, we agree.  But he goes onto argue that the prosecutor should have employed his discretion to decline prosecution against these students, because they had already been disciplined by the university.  But the university discipline has been worn by the students as a red badge of courage.  They have been treated as heroes and the slap on the wrist discipline has certainly not deterred them or other students from conspiring to silence other controversial speakers, especially those who try to make the case for Israel.</p>
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		<title>Why the Palestinians Must Pay a Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rewarding violence will only produce more violence.]]></description>
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<p>The Palestinians are in the process of seeking sovereignty from the United Nations, but in doing so, they are asking for more than what was offered them in any prior negotiation with Israel—including during the talks involving President Clinton and Ehud Barak in 2000 and 2001. Rather than more, it is imperative that the Palestinians get less.</p>
<p>It is imperative to world peace that the Palestinians pay a price—even if it’s only a symbolic price—for rejecting the generous Clinton/Barak offer and responding to it with a second intifada in which 4,000 people were killed. It is also important that Israel not return to the precise armistice lines that existed prior to the 1967 war. If the Palestinians were to achieve a return to the status quo prior to Jordan’s attack on Israel in June of 1967, then military aggression will not have been punished, it will have been rewarded. That’s why Security Council Resolution 242—which was essentially the peace treaty that resulted from the end of the Six Day War—intended for Israel to retain territory necessary to give it secure boundaries (Indeed, in the formal application submitted by Abbas, he sought membership based on UN General Assembly Resolution 1810-11 of November 29, 1947, which would put the borders where they were before the Arab armies invaded the new Jewish state in 1948. This would reward multiple aggressions.)</p>
<p>Yet, however important it is that aggressive and unjustified violence not be rewarded, the international community seems bent on doing just that. If the end result of Jordan’s 1967 attack on Israel—an attack supported by the Palestinian leadership and participated in by Palestinian soldiers—is that the Palestinians get back everything Jordan lost, there will be no disincentive to comparable military attacks around the world. If the Palestinians get more than, or even as much as, they rejected in 2000 and 2001 (and did not accept in 2007), then further intifadas with mass casualties will be encouraged. A price must be paid for violence. That’s how the laws of war are supposed to work and there is no reason to make an exception in the case of the Palestinians.</p>
<p>I support a two-state solution based on negotiation and mutual compromise. But the negotiations must not begin where previous offers, which were not accepted, left off. They must take into account how we got to the present situation: The Arab rejection of the UN partition plan and the attack on the new Jewish state that resulted in the death of one percent of Israel’s population; the attack by Jordan and its Palestinian soldiers against Israel in 1967, which resulted in Israel’s capture of the West Bank; Israel’s offer to trade captured land for peace that was rejected at Khartoum with the three infamous &#8220;no’s&#8221;—no peace, no recognition, no negotiation; Israel’s generous offer of statehood in 2000-2001 that was answered by violence; and Olmert’s subsequent, even more generous, offer that was not accepted by President Abbas.</p>
<p>Efforts to achieve peace must look forward but they must not forget the past. A balance must be struck between not rewarding past violence and not creating unreasonable barriers to a future peace. But the Palestinians made it clear last week that they reject such balance.</p>
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		<title>Terrorism Against Israel More Justified Than Terrorism Against Norway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahistorical bigotry from a Norwegian ambassador.]]></description>
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<p>In a recent interview, Norway’s ambassador to Israel has suggested that Hamas terrorism against Israel is more justified than the recent terrorist attack against Norway.  His reasoning is that “we Norwegians consider the occupation to be the cause of the terror against Israel.”  In other words terrorism against Israeli citizens is the fault of Israel.  The terrorism against Norway, on the other hand, was based on “an ideology that said that Norway, particularly the Labor Party, is foregoing Norwegian culture.”  It is hard to imagine that he would make such a provocative statement without express approval from the Norwegian government.</p>
<p>I can’t remember many other examples of so much nonsense compressed in such short an interview.  First of all, terrorism against Israel began well before there was any “occupation.”  The first major terrorist attack against Jews, who had long lived in Jerusalem and Hebron, began in 1929, when the leader of the Palestinian people, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, ordered a religiously-motivated terrorist attack that killed hundreds of religious Jews—many old, some quite young.  Terrorism against Jews continued through the 1930s.  Once Israel was established as a state, but well before it captured the West Bank, terrorism became the primary means of attacking Israel across the Jordanian, Egyptian and Lebanese borders.  If the occupation is the cause of the terror against Israel, what was the cause of all the terror that preceded any occupation?</p>
<p>I was not surprised to hear such ahistorical bigotry from a Norwegian ambassador.  Norway is the most anti-Semitic and anti-Israel country in Europe today.  I know, because I experienced both personally during a recent visit and tour of universities.  No university would invite me to lecture, unless I promised not to discuss Israel.  Norway forbids Jewish ritual slaughter, but not Islamic ritual slaughter.  Its political and academic leaders openly make statements that cross the line from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism, such as when Norway’s foreign minister condemned Barak Obama for appointing a Jew as his chief of staff.  No other European leader would make such a statement and get away with it.  In Norway, this bigoted statement was praised, as were similar statements made by a leading academic.</p>
<p>The very camp that was attacked by the lone terrorist was engaged in an orgy of anti-Israel hatred the day before the shooting.  Yet I would not ever claim that it was Norway’s anti-Semitism that “caused” the horrible act of terrorism against young Norwegians.</p>
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		<title>Ships and Planes of Fools Pick Wrong Target</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are the flotillas sailing for ports in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and other areas of the Middle East?.]]></description>
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<p>The recent attempts by anti-Israel extremists to break Israel’s naval blockage of Gaza and to flood Israel’s airports with troublemakers have failed.</p>
<p>The ships of fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism that tried to sail from Greece have now apparently been run aground. Most of the hard-left extremists have gone home following a decision by the Greek government to prevent the boats from leaving Greek ports.  And those who tried to flood Israel’s airports are being deported.  The resulting fiasco, which was designed to discredit Israel, has succeeded only in discrediting the Israel-bashers on the boats and planes by exposing their true purpose.</p>
<p>The alleged purpose of the ships was to feed the starving Arabs of Gaza. The problem is that the Arabs of Gaza are not starving. Nor are they in need of outside help.</p>
<p>According to reporting by The New York Times, Gaza has been thriving recently. Luxury hotels are being built; stores are stocked with food; beaches are filled with children; and life is far better than in neighboring Al Arish, which is across the border in Egypt.</p>
<p>In fact, according to news reports, the residents of Gaza are far better off than the residents of many Arab areas in the Middle East. Medical care is better, infant mortality is lower, longevity is higher, employment is increasing, cars are plentiful, food is more available and the quality of water and air is higher. The Gross National Product has risen dramatically over the past year.</p>
<p>To be sure, the citizens of Gaza do not have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the right to dissent or the ability to join political parties that are out of favor. These limitations are the fault of Hamas, not of Israel.</p>
<p>Indeed, the only Arabs in the region whose lives, in every respect, are better than those who live in Gaza, are the citizens of the West Bank, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority rather than Hamas.</p>
<p>So if the fools on the ships were really interested in helping Arabs who are truly in need of food, medicine and other provisions, they would set sail for ports in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and other areas of the Middle East. But these hypocrites have no interest in helping the downtrodden. Their only interest is in delegitimizing the Jewish state of Israel.</p>
<p>Many of those on the ships actually support the most oppressive regimes in the Middle East, such as the Syrian regime, which murders its civilians in cold blood; the Iranian regime, which brutally suppresses dissent; Hezbollah which murders its political opponents; and Hamas which subjugates women and executes gays.</p>
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		<title>History&#8217;s View of Robert Gates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the defense secretary's position on Iran will haunt his legacy. ]]></description>
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<p>As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates prepares to retire to private life—following 5 years as the head of the Department of Defense in both the Bush and Obama administrations—praise is being heaped on him by Democrats and Republicans alike.  Herein a dissenting view.  History will not be kind to Gates.  Despite some noteworthy accomplishments, he will be remembered as the single most important facilitator of an Iranian regime with nuclear weapons.  Future historians will compare him to Neville Chamberlain’s military advisers, who—like Gates—strongly opposed all forms of military intervention against the greatest potential danger of the century:  An aggressively armed Nazi Germany in the 20<sup>th</sup> century; a nuclear armed Iran in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p>
<p>In a farewell interview with <em>The New York Times</em>, he put it this way:</p>
<blockquote><p>If we were about to be attacked or something happened that threatened a vital U.S. national interest, I would be the first in line to say, ‘Let’s go,’ I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity.  I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.</p></blockquote>
<p>This certainly sounds reasonable—at least to anyone unfamiliar with the history of the 1930s.  As Hitler was rearming in a clear violation of Germany’s treaty obligation, and making it clear what he intended to do with his planes, tanks and submarines, Neville Chamberlain was arguing against his nation becoming involved in a war of choice.  He prevailed and took the military option off the table, thus encouraging the Germans to continue to violate the Versailles Treaty without fear of intervention.  Winston Churchill, on the other hand, was warning against allowing the Nazi regime to rearm.  Even the Germans expected those nations that defeated them in the First World War to march against them before they could fully rearm.  This is how Goebbels put it in his diary.</p>
<blockquote><p>[W]e have succeeded in leaving the enemy in the dark concerning Germany’s real goals…We wanted to come to power legally, but we did not want to use power legally…They could have arrested a couple of us in 1925 and that would have been that, the end. No, they let us through the danger zone. That’s exactly how it was in foreign policy, too….In 1933 a French premier ought to have said (and if I had been the French premier I would have said it): “The new Reich Chancellor is the man who wrote <em>Mein Kampf</em>, which says this and that.  This man cannot be tolerated in our vicinity.  Either he disappears or we march!”  But they didn’t do it.  They left us alone and let us slip through the risky zone, and we were able to sail around all dangerous reefs.  And when we were done, and well armed, better than they, then they started the war!</p></blockquote>
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