Hezbollah?s Genocidal Threat

[Rich]

Hezbollah?s Genocidal Threat

By Alan M. Dershowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | 2/18/2008

The leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has now called for revenge against Israelis and Jews around the world, for the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, which he claims was done by Israel. It does not matter, of course, who actually pulled off the assassination. Israel and the Jews would be blamed by Hezbollah even if Syria had been responsible. Blame Israel and the Jews for everything is what Hezbollah always does. In the past, Hezbollah has taken revenge against what it claimed to be Israeli actions by murdering Jewish school children in Argentina. Once again it is threatening to attack innocent Jews around the world.


Yet some in the media describe this as a cycle of violence, thus suggesting moral equivalence between the targeting of a terrorist combatant responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians, and the random murder of innocent men, women and children who had absolutely nothing to do with the targeted killing of Imad Mughniyeh, but just happen to be Jewish.


Sheik Hassan Nasrallah?s call for the killing of Jews around the world is nothing short of an incitement to genocide, or at least to mass murder. There is no moral equivalent between military action that targeted a terrorist combatant and the targeting of innocent civilians around the world, based on their religion. Until the media understands this crucial, moral and legal distinction, we will all be vulnerable to the genocidal revenge tactics of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.

[Michael Tee]

<<Sheik Hassan Nasrallah?s call for the killing of Jews around the world is nothing short of an incitement to genocide, or at least to mass murder.>>

Hilarious.  The "famed civil rights lawyer" (who also defends torture) can't make up his mind in one sentence if he's dealing with genocide or just mass murder.  Give it a rest, motormouth.

Things must be slow on the lecture circuit if Dershowitz has nothing more exciting to do than get his knickers in a twist over the usual overheated rhetoric of the Middle East.  Oh well, we've all got bills to pay, I guess.

[Rich]

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Don't you just like the sick little turd belittling someone like Deshowitz? Can you imagine the debate bewteen the two?

Alan Deshowitz:

Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and is known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

He has spent most of his career at Harvard, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in its history, until Noam Elkies took the record. Dershowitz still holds the record as the youngest person to become a professor of law there.

As a criminal appellate lawyer, Dershowitz successfully argued to overturn the conviction of Claus von B?low for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. Dershowitz was the appellate advisor for the defense in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson.

Dershowitz was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979, and was in 1983 a recipient of the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award from the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith for his work in civil rights. He has been awarded honorary doctorates in law from Yeshiva University, the Hebrew Union College, Monmouth College, University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University.[44]

He has been described by Newsweek as America's "most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" and by Corriere della Sera as "America's most famous progressive lawyer."[45]

Dershowitz has taken public stances on a number of controversial contemporary issues. Because of his fame, his positions have often been covered by major media sources and have been the subject of attention from both scholarly and political points of view. He frequently engages in debate with and about other public figures.

In June 2005 he was among an "elite group" of twenty guests invited to participate in a "brain-storming session" on "Alternate Futures for the Jewish People," held at the Aspen Institute Wye River Conference Center (formerly "Wye Plantation"), near Washington, D.C.[46]

Dershowitz has been blogging at the The Huffington Post since then.

On November 18th, 2007, Alan Dershowitz was awarded The Soviet Jewry Freedom Award by the Russian Jewish Community Foundation.


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Michael Tee:

The raving manic depressive America/Jew hater from 3DHs.

Man, that would be worth paying to see.
 

[Michael Tee]

<<Can you imagine the debate bewteen the two?>>

I'd whip his ass.  What most people don't realize about Dersh is that he gets a houseful of top-flight law students to do all his research and position papers for him, reads them through and basically presents a digest to the court. 

One on one, I'd whip his ass.  It's not the man, it's the argument.  His logic is full of shit.  He can't justify torture and he can't justify the Israeli occupation.  If you've got a bad case, the best lawyer in the world can't turn it into a good case as long as his opponent stands his ground and is not intimidated.

Dershowitz is basically a genius at self-promotion who, when I've seen him on TV, "wins" (when he wins)  by shouting down his opponent and not letting him get a word in.  He's not one-tenth the lawyer that, say, Gerry Spence is.

If I ever did debate Dershowitz, I'd lay down a few ground rules:

1.  One on one debate, not a three-way discussion, because Dershowitz is inevitably given the benefit of someone with whom HE can gang up on the leftist, not two leftists ganging up on Dersh.

2.  Strict time limits enforced by a guy with a warning buzzer and a sound cut-off switch so that each of us gets the exact same time to  speak

3.  Each speaker in a soundproof chamber so he can't be cut off by the other guy interrupting.

[Rich]

Can you believe this guy? He's worked out the rules for an imaginary debate in his head.

Wow. Twisted.

[Michael Tee]

<<Can you believe this guy? He's worked out the rules for an imaginary debate in his head.

<<Wow. Twisted.>>

'Scuse me?  Wasn't it you who proposed the imaginary debate in the first place?

[Plane]

It would be really great to get Alan Dersewitz to come to our site and debate.

It isn't possible to cut someone off or outshout anyone without the connivance of an officer of the site, and we have all proven loath to interfere in that manner.

As to th one on one requirement , we have never needed that before , but I think that BT could set up a site with the writing access restricted to a small number of posters if a challenge match was desired.

The downfall of the idea is that Derserwits generally gets a pretty good fee for stringing several words together ,  we here have been depending on the generosity of our members with their words and we probably can't afford him.

[Michael Tee]

Dershowitz would never fall for it.  He knows if he can't manipulate the medium, he'll look like an ass.  He's got a lot to lose, schleppers like us have got nothing to lose.

I foresee another problem with the Dersh - - his team can put together a well-indexed factbook with every possible fact and statistic in it for ready reference.  No one here has the resources to come close.  Unless we could achieve fact-book parity, the debate would be a foregone conclusion for Dersh.  Unless you could make it mano-a-mano, both participants with equal access to the same reference material with the sources vetted by both sides.

[Plane]

Dershowitz would never fall for it.  He knows if he can't manipulate the medium, he'll look like an ass.  He's got a lot to lose, schleppers like us have got nothing to lose.

I foresee another problem with the Dersh - - his team can put together a well-indexed factbook with every possible fact and statistic in it for ready reference.  No one here has the resources to come close.  Unless we could achieve fact-book parity, the debate would be a foregone conclusion for Dersh.  Unless you could make it mano-a-mano, both participants with equal access to the same reference material with the sources vetted by both sides.

I woud allow the use of Google.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Alan Dershowitz is basically the well-dressed academic Jewish suit equivalent of  Nasrallah. He fancies torture, though he wouldn't actually turn the screws personally. The Israelis are no doubt responsible for the assassination, and time will tell whether it actually causes them personal harm or was worth the gamble, because they surely knew that Nasrallah would say and do. Mostly say.

Rhetoric is the main export of fanatics like Nasrallah. Most of the time such individuals do not have their money where their mouth is. They just have a loud mouth where their mouth is.

Like Richie's interminable boring posts, Nasrallah is hyped on meaningless rhetoric.


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Dershowitz is a real prick, and deserved to be placed in Coventry, where no one listens to him ever again.