DERSHOWITZ BACK ON THE “PEACE PROCESS” STAND UP FOOL
Posted By Ruth King on April 30th, 2013
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/48834
Sunday in Manhattan there was a Jerusalem Post Policy conference. There was a panel debating the topic of Two States for Two People. Harvard Law Professor was in top form demonstrating why he has about reached his limit. Read the Jerusalem Post report ,“Dershowitz presents plan to restart peace talks“, about a truculent audience rejecting his views and according to fellow panelist and senior JP columnist Caroline Glick saying:
Following laughter from the audience, Dershowitz lashed out, saying that “It’s so easy to laugh but I have to tell you the audience today is not helpful in resolving complex and serious issues,” which lead to loud jeers and boos.
The bestselling author was booed loudly after telling audience members that they are “part of the problem” for laughing at his new framework for negotiations.
“You’re proving my point,? Dershowitz hit back, adding, “You are part of the problem, not the solution.”
The Post’s Senior Contributing Editor Caroline Glick, who was also on the panel, told the audience that she “Need[ed] to catch my breath for a second,” after Dershowitz’s comments. “It’s very nice to come in here and smack down your audience,” she intoned.
Dershowitz, she told the audience, is “nasty to those who disagree” with him.
“If you want to say that people who devote their lives to defending the Jewish state are illegitimate voices then why should I care what you have to say,” she asked Dershowitz.
Towards the end of the debate, Dershowitz alleged that those who booed him and former prime minister Ehud Olmert were not representative of American or Israeli Jewry and are “foolish.” He said he would defend his “right to tell you what I think of you and it’s not much.”
And why were the JP conference audience laughing at Dershowitz?
Harvard law professor and prominent American Zionist Alan Dershowitz presented a new plan to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians on Sunday at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York.
It would be a terrible mistake to begin talks based on the 1967 lines, Dershowitz said during a panel discussion on the topic of two states for two peoples. “That puts the Kotel in the hands of the PA at the start of negotiations,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz told the audience that he had spoken with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and suggested that a new basis for negotiations be agreed upon in which construction would continue in the settlement blocs but not in any areas in which there is “reasonable disagreement.”
Abbas signed a paper with Dershowitz that he would agree to such a move if the Israeli side would as well, Dershowitz stated.
Afterwards, the best-selling author asked Strategic Affairs Minister and co-panelist Yuval Steinitz if the Netanyahu administration would support negotiations conducted on such a basis and conducted in “good faith” with a “tripartite settlement freeze” that would “avoid the problem of what happened last time when [the Palestinians] didn’t do a darn thing.”
After Steinitz panned the idea, former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Dr. Uzi Arad, told Dershowitz that he advised against such a move because “one does not take unilateral decisions of any kind” and especially not “unilateral concessions.”
Reciprocity is necessary in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, Arad said.
“Among the things I asked Abbas,” Dershowitz later replied, adding that he agreed that reciprocity is necessary, was that “if this deal were made [Abbas] would agree not to bring cases before the International Criminal Court. His answer was ‘that’s a serious question and I’m going to give it serious consideration.'”
How arrogant and presumptuous for Dershowitz to negotiate with Mahmoud Abbas, when he has no authority to do so. Dersh has worn out his welcome with most Israelis with this faux diplomatese dallying with the corrupt billionaires and Holocaust deniers of PLO/Fatah. Dershowitz ranting about people who disagree with him by calling them foolish and accusing them of being part of the problem is ultimate chutzpah. It is time for egomaniac Dershowitz to exit stage left, permanently when it comes to being the best US liberal voice in support of Israel. By this antic exercise at the JP Conference is Dershowitz channeling British Prime Minister fresh off the plane at London’s Croydon Airport from the Munich conference in 1938 waving his scarp of paper with Herr Schickelgruber’s signature saying that he bought peace in our time by feeding Czechoslovakia to the Nazi crocodile? Ms. Glick’s retort was spot on. Dershowitz appears to be feeding Israel to the crocodiles in Ramallah. Neither Israelis nor many American are buying his line and perhaps that of his friends in the West Wing or Secretary of State Kerry.
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