http://www.newsmax.com/AlanDershowitz/Dershowitz-Israel-peace-Palestinians/2013/05/07/id/503269
Dear Dersh: Look what some idiot posted and used your name. You’re a lawyer….sue the stupid bastard!!!! rsk
By: Alan Dershowitz
Alan M. Dershowitz’s Perspective: There are a small number of extremely vocal right-wing Jews who believe that retaining the entire West Bank is more important than trying to make peace with the Palestinians. Some of them believe that God gave the Jewish people the West Bank and it is a sin to give any of it up.
It was that kind of thinking that led to the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when he tried to exchange land for peace with the Palestinians. There are others who believe that because Jews lived in Judea and Samaria thousands of years ago, Israel has no right to end any current Jewish settlement on the West Bank.
There are still others who believe that it is foolish even to try to trade land for peace with the Palestinians, since the Palestinian leadership has no real interest in arriving at a peaceful solution.
This noisy clack boos disrespectfully when they hear the name of President Obama, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or anyone else who favors a two-state solution that does not compromise Israel’s security.
I have now joined this distinguished company of people who get booed for advocating territorial compromise in the interest of peace. I was booed and jeered at The Jerusalem Post Conference on April 28, 2013 when I proposed an idea for restarting peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
These same people cheered loudly when Carolyn Glick, a right-wing opponent of any territorial compromise, announced that: “There are no competing narratives. There is only the truth.” For her, the only truth lies in history and archeology. Of course it is true that the Jews lived on the West Bank for many years two millennia ago. (It is equally true that Native Americans populated Manhattan Island as recently as four centuries ago.)