When an author talks the “crime against humanity…otherwise known as the state of Israel” you know you’re in for some really objective stuff. This is evidenced by sanctimonious allowances to the holocaust that “no one does or should” challenge. I guess the author has never heard the words Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran or the read the official textbooks in Egyptian and Saudi schools. The author goes on to say that the treatment of Palestinians is no less awful than the treatment of the Jews by the Third Reich. Really? Do the Israelis round up Palestinians, pack them into train cars, burn them alive or gas them to death? No, of course they don’t. No, the Israelis are decried because they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. On the one hand, Palestinians demand that the Zionists get off their land. Then, when the Jews leave, the Palestinians get all ticked off that the Israelis put up borders crossing to prevent the Palestinians from entering Israel. They even have the nerve to get mad at the Israelis for not sending them free aid in the form of medicine, fuel and food.

So, not only is Israel supposed to leave the Palestinians alone, but they’re also supposed to support the Palestinians into perpetuity.

The author goes on in his ridiculous, fact-less rant to say that Israel’s mere possession of bombs which can “kill three million children” is equivalent to the atrocities of the holocaust. “Absurd” and “imaginative” are the only words I can think of to describe his essay because it is certainly not factual.

And I said Lebanon was a beautiful country Israel bombed not PA. More later!!

Dershowitz is a pretty fair guy. I’ve read “Defense of Israel” and seen him speak. For an opposite perspective, I would recommend Benny Morris. He’s the fairest Palestinian I’ve read, but he’s still pretty biased.

Furthermore, I don’t know how you extrapolate my position on the issue from the posting of one RELEVANT link. It’s YOUR hasty judgements is what we should be worried about… not my shortsightedness. If I am as “brilliant” as you seem to think (very nice of you to say, by the way)… wouldn’t it be incumbent on you to listen to my point of view instead of write if off ahead of time? I don’t really get the logic there…

I am surprised that someone as brilliant as yourself jumps to this logically ridiculous conclusion that Israel “enjoys” terrorizing their neighbors. This is not the realm of facts or data… but a conclusion based on your own emotion and prejudice. I don’t know how else to put it. Dirshowitz addresses this very absurd notion in his speech. He has been portrayed as “missing his climax” when watching palestinians being killed–a rather sick portrayl of a respected Harvard Law faculty if you ask me . Your comment seems to fall prey to the same twisted logic. I would suggest you pay close attention during that portion of the podcast.

Your gloss of Palestine being a “beautiful country” that Israelies are “bombing the shit” out of is perhaps only a marginally improved position. Is a country’s beauty at all relevant to the issues involved? I think not. Again, there seems to be nothing objective in that position at all.

You know something, I DON’T CARE who’s at fault for the middle east cricis. I could care LESS. What I WANT… is for there to be PEACE (which is what Dirshowitz champions as well). Unfortunately, your attitude and the attitudes of many with your mindset –painting the other side as sick, twisted freaks– is doing very little to further this goal and may be, in fact, a hurdle. Is this kind of attitude in the interests of hte Palestinian people? I think its a fair question.

I don’t know what you were trying to accomplish with this comment… but it certainly didn’t win any credibility to the side it seems you have already chosen.

I look forward to continue this discussion–specifically your opinion of Dirshowitz’s speech.