by Gilad Atzmon
“How come Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister, is under threat of being arrested in the UK while Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas, roams London free of concern” asks Prof Alan Dershowitz, who is probably the leading defender of the Jewish state in America. In fact the question could be easily extended, one may wonder how come Dershowitz and his ilk are roaming freely between Western capitals considering the racist, nationalist expansionist ideology they promote i.e. Zionism. At the end of the day, Dershowitz the loudest Zionist apologist in America is promoting a precept that has proved to be genocidal.
What intrigues me about Dershowitz is the fact that Israel’s leading Hasbara cheer-leader is also one of America’s most prominent criminal lawyers specialising in murder and attempted murder cases. As a criminal appellate lawyer, Dershowitz has won thirteen out of the fifteen murder and attempted murder cases he has handled. Notable is his role as the appellate adviser for the defence in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. Seemingly, this is exactly what Israel needs and deserves, a ‘criminal attorney’. One that would help it to get away with murder.
In a conversation with Ynet, a leading Israeli paper, Dershowitz claimed that Judge Richard Goldstone, the author of the UN report investigating Operation Cast Lead, “preferred to give interviews to public television rather than debating him.” Dershowitz said that it isn’t appropriate for Goldstone to ‘filter whom he debates with’. One may wonder why? It is a common and accepted practice amongst humanists not to share a platform with racists. Zionism is not only a racist ideology, it is also murderous in practice. Dershowitz is a proud rabid Zionist. It is understandable that any decent human being would prefer to avoid sharing a platform with him or his cohorts.
According to Ynet, “Dershowitz demanded that Judge Goldstone provide explanations of the sources that led him to his final conclusion in the report, which asserted that Israel’s policy in Operation Cast Lead was to kill as many Palestinian civilians as possible.” Dershowitz, may have to find time to watch this Youtube video. It is all there. An extensive review of the Israeli terror campaign in Gaza.
One doesn’t have to be a military expert to grasp that pouring WMD, and using artillery against a civilian population is sufficient evidence. Israeli murderous tactics are now established facts and common knowledge.
Dershowitz said that he “does not expect Israel to suffer much damage in the US following the Goldstone report. He asserted that the Americans understand that the Human Rights Council is a farce and its conclusions not taken too seriously”. Dershowitz obviously fails to tell the truth. If the Human Rights Council is a ‘farce’ as he says, why does Zionist loud mouth Dershowitz insist to debate Judge Goldstone?
Dershowitz also claimed that “Israel can breathe easily in academic circles as well, saying that students in the US can think for themselves and will not believe that Israel decided intentionally to kill Palestinian civilians.” Again, if this is the case, if Israel’s reputation within the academic circuit is secured, why is Dershowitz & Co mounted pressure on Finkelstein, Walt, Mearsheimer and every other critical voice of Israel and Zionism. Dershowitz is obviously failing to tell the truth again. He can see that the tide is changing. He knows that every ethically orientated human being sees the truth behind Israeli brutality. Why is Dershovitz lying? Because Jewish nationalism left, right and centre is grounded on a set of lies. By way of deception they make their wars.
Happy Holidays, Saker.
Off topic to this post but something that has been bothering me; MOPs or Massive Ordinance Penetrators, which I’ve heard talked about for the past several months. These are 30,000 pound bombs with 5300 pounds of explosives that supposedly can penetrate 200 ft into the earth.
Would such a weapon change the balance of power between Israel and Hizbullah? Do They work and is there any countermeasure?
Thanks
@Lysander: Happy Thanksgiving to you too, my friend!
The short answer your question is “no”. But a qualified “no”. While Hezbollah never gave me a guided tour of the secret installations in Beirut and the rest of Lebanon, I can make an educated guess and here is what I think:
Hezbollah might have a few deeply buried sites, but their main defense is probably not so much as a result of their depth, as it is of their hard to pinpoint location. In modern warfare the rule is “if they can see you you are dead” and the outcomes of conflits are decided less by penetrative power than by intelligence.
I am absolutely certain that besides the couple of sites mentioned above, the vast majority of Hezbollah command posts and bunkers are hard to hit because they are well hidden, and not because they are buried deep. It just makes no sense to bury most such posts or bunkders are the kind of depth such MOPs are designed to destroy. Camouflage, redundancy, mobility – these are the tools of the trade. That, and a careful combination of centralization and de-centralization. Hezbollah has become the “A Team” of combining highly redundant and survivable communications with a large degree of local autonomy. That is one of their most amazing acheivements. A super high-tech military like the Israeli not only failed to either distrupt or even detect most of Hezbollahs communications, they were not even able to find it in the field unless they literally stumbled upon it.
No, such MOPs will not play any significant role in Lebanon and Hezbollah has nothing to fear from them (bullshit to the countrary by the corporate media notwishtanding).
MOPs might be more useful in Iran, but knowing the Iranians I think that they will not do the mistakes of Saddam and by the time the USA bombs Natanz or any other such well-known facility the important stuff will be long gone (or available elsewhere).
Cheers!
VS
Perhaps a bit off topic but FYI: “The Israeli Lobby appeals before the US Congress to stop the Ergenekon trial in Turkey”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article163027.html
NYmouse
@NYmouse: nothing is every off-topic here, don’t worry about that :-)
And thanks for the interesting link!