Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumDershowitz: Not Surprising ‘Ignoramus’ Bernie Sanders Tapped ‘Professional Israel-Hater’
https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/25/dershowitz-not-surprising-ignoramus-bernie-sanders-tapped-professional-israel-hater-for-democratic-policy-committee-interview/
Dershowitz, a fierce defender of Israel and avowed supporter of the Democratic Party, was referring to Arab American Institute (AAI) President James Zogby, whom Sanders tapped on Monday to help draft party policy.
Dershowitz, who said hes debated Zogby on numerous occasions, explained why he is not surprised that the senator from Vermont contending for the Democratic nomination picked him to fill such an influential position. Bernie Sanders is an ignoramus when it comes to the Middle East, and he is very strongly biased against Israel. He gets his information from hard-Left, anti-Israel sources, and he doesnt think for himself, he said.
Regarding another of Sanders anti-Israel appointees to the committee philosopher Cornel West, a BDS proponent who wrote that the crimes of Hamas pale in the face of the US-supported Israeli slaughter of innocent civilians, and accused President Obama of being most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want Dershowitz said, Putting two Israel-bashers on the committee risks dividing the Democratic Party over an issue on which theyve always been united.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)It makes me happy.
emulatorloo
(45,568 posts)ericson00
(2,707 posts)but doesn't buy into the kook stuff
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Not the reviewing of notes your buddy made.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)lollololol
DonCoquixote
(13,711 posts)http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/03/cnna.Dershowitz/
and this op ed in his OWN words.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/09/07/the-case-for-torture-warrants/
Of course, who cares about those that get tortured, they ain't us, right?
ericson00
(2,707 posts)anti-war ANSWER Coalition crowd that would rather let an airport explode than use rough (but not permanently physically damaging) tactics to protect Americans.
DonCoquixote
(13,711 posts)someday, they will use it on you. You think that there are not many good Christian folk willing to torture Mr. Dersowhitz or other Jews because they opposed letting Christians turned education into an arm of the church.?
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/14/news/mn-32054
http://archive.adl.org/issue_religious_freedom/faith-freedom/faith_freedom_schools-2.html
You should know the line..."first they came for..(etc)
SusanLarson
(284 posts)We signed a treaty that said we would not do that.
The Constitution says, "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."
So we cannot do that.
LiberalArkie
(16,505 posts)Much of his legal career has focused on criminal law, and his clients have included high-profile figures such as Patty Hearst, Harry Reems, Leona Helmsley, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Michael Milken, O.J. Simpson and Kirtanananda Swami.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)will jump to agree with a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express.
This should be interesting.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)as long as they are willing to bash Bernie.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)Whats more, Dershowitz told the American Lawyer, he is loyal to his wife, who is always by his side: Ive been married to the same woman for 28 years. She goes with me everywhere. People know that I wont argue a case or give a speech unless my wife travels with me. This is not the profile of someone who screws around.
But according to the flight logs, Dershowitz was close enough to Epstein to have accompanied him on a flight from Palm Beach to New Jerseys Teterboro Airport as early as December 1997. On that flight, the pair was accompanied by a number of people, including one unidentified female, a Hazel, a Claire, and Maxwell.
The logs also show Dershowitz on a flight with Epstein from Bedford, Mass., to Teterboro in October 1998, and a flight from Teterboro to Marthas Vineyard in 1999. And a 2005 trip from Massachusetts to Montreal shows him traveling with Epstein, Tatianna, and others.
One things the logs dont show: Dershowitzs wife traveling with him.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)But actual liberals know better.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)and Obama in 2012, as well.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Freepers aren't good with nuance, either.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)aren't good enough for you, go vote for Stein/Johnson.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Riding on the Lolita Express without the wife.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I called them poor at nuance.
One of those "the meaning of "is" is" things...
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)That's what Bernies plan seems to be.
I don't even think it's about Israel at all......
ericson00
(2,707 posts)Bernie wants to tear the party apart, I'm more convinced than ever. The Israel divide speaks to worldview, view of America in the world, view of
King_David
(14,851 posts)elleng
(136,091 posts)in addition to being extremely 'rude.'
ericson00
(2,707 posts)pull "theories" out his arse like Cornel West; Dersh knows important and useful truths, not hatefilled fantasies of Obama being a "n-word-ized" POTUS.
elleng
(136,091 posts)tho not a professor of law anywhere. I followed Dershowitz until he seemed to lose it, and lost respect for him.
I also lost respect for Cornel West.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)both in his degrees and teaching. Unless I'm talking to a famous person acting anonymously, that doesn't seem to be you.
elleng
(136,091 posts)Dershowitz lost it some years ago.
cali
(114,904 posts)I know that from personal experience.