The Alan Dershowitz and Melanie Phillips Show: Jewish Fury Incarnate

As we passed through late summer and Bibi Netanyahu endured a summit in London, the distinguished British journalist and broadcaster Melanie Phillips — known as “Mad Mel” to the left — took on Alan Dershowitz in a debate on Obama in the pages of FrontPageMag.com. I do not intend to go into a protracted discourse about the argument but will put the cat among the pigeons right here at the start: I think Dersho is right-on.

The debate began when Melanie, a staunch anti-Obamaite, launched a challenge to Dershowitz after he had published a piece in the Wall Street Journal voicing his unease over the suggestion by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that tackling a nuclear Iran was linked to a cessation of Israeli settlement expansion. Dershowitz made it clear from the outset that he had supported Obama. Needless to say I find it amusing that anti-Israel activists who confront me lump Dershowitz with Phillips as promoters of Zionism. (He tells us that he has gotten used to being called a “Ziofascist,” “Zionazi,” and “right-wing fanatic,” which of course Melanie has also been called.) Four years ago I attended the electrically charged appearance by Dershowitz at the hotbed of anti-Zionist activism, the London School of Oriental and African Studies, watching him defend Israel to the hilt in front of the most hostile audience anyone could organize this side of the English Channel...

Dersh may be a lefty on most things, but on Israel he’s right on!............

No, both he and Gould are wrong. And, not just simply the wrong of flawed analysis, but the tragic wrong of blind, slavish devotion to their own ideology while failing to grasp that of the enemies of Israel who are absolutely committed to the destruction of Israel, and who openly state in their own "internal dialogue" that any and all agreements with Israel are merely tactical "hudna" and "taqiyyah" to buy time until their own version of a final solution can be achieved.

Melanie Phillips is the one who's dead-on correct on this issue. It is truly discouraging to see the number of Freepers who, for whatever reasons, can't seem to wrap their minds around the reality of these issues.

“First, Dershowitz argues that he, like Israeli intellectuals Amos Oz, Aharon Barak, and others, has been critical of Israel’s settler policies. He feels that expansion of the settlements will make it harder to implement the two-state solution.”

Me: Whenever I hear the word “intellectuals,” the first thought that jumps into my head is “UH OH.” Yet another elitist snob who thinks they know better than me what’s “good” for me. I don’t care where they come from or what their name is, intellectuals THINK on a level that seems to never comprehend reality. It is usually wrong because nothing ever turns out the way they THINK it will, and in the meantime, the damage that it causes is almost beyond repair.
Even though ALL the evidence points to the fact that the palestinians want mothing less than Israel’s final demise, these “intellectuals” insist that there is some mythical solution though we haven’t found it yet.
Every inch of land Israel has given up has been turned into a war zone for Hizbullah, Hamas, or Fatah, Every “peace deal” is the last one...until the next one. No matter how much they “get” it is never enough. Ever.

“Later, however, he repudiates Rahm Emanuel’s “disturbing linkage” between Jewish settlements and tackling the Iranian nuke program. He concludes ‘you can be a strong supporter of Israel and yet oppose the settlements and favor a two-state solution.’”

Me: No. No you can NOT. Not if you care at all about Israel’s survival. The palestinians themselves have taken what Israel has given and made their OWN two state solution and went to war with each other. Let them kill each other. If any of them are left, ship them to Saudi Arabia.
Not one inch. Not one more inch.

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