The Dersh goes after the wrong target
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, whose pro-Israel, liberal and Democratic credentials are all impeccable, went after J Street's representatives at the AIPAC conference on Monday for not being pro-Israel. While every word Dershowitz said to J Street's Hadar Susskind was correct, Jonathan Tobin writes that Dershowitz is going after the wrong target. In 2008, Dershowitz argued that not only were Obama’s pro-Israel credentials impeccable but that it would be a boon to Israel to have a liberal president who backed the Jewish state. That was because he thought that having a liberal icon like Obama who supported Israel in the White House would convince young people and others on the Left that it was okay for them to do the same. But the opposite has happened. The pointless fights that Obama has picked with Israel (while he continues to dither on the threat from Iran) have helped to further discredit Israel among liberals and Democrats while J Street disingenuously stamps his policies “pro-Israel.”Indeed.
But while he is prepared to get tough with Obama’s J Street spear-carriers, the redoubtable Professor Dershowitz is still unwilling to take on their inspirational leader in the White House. Slashing away at J Street’s stands is nice but if you’re going to keep giving Obama a pass for policies that put the left-wing lobby’s misguided principles into action, you’re wasting everybody’s time. The next time Dershowitz feels the urge to belabor Susskind and the rest of the J Street crowd, he should instead focus his anger on the real offender: Barack Obama.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:17 AM
3 Comments:
The Dersh goes after the wrong target because the Dersh is an Obama supporter. To go after Obama would mean admitting he has been wrong on Obama all along, and his ego couldn't stand for that. Just read up on his debate with Mel Phillips at frontpage where he lost it completely in trying to defend the indefensible, his defense of Obama on Israel. He was totally incoherent. So he'd have to admit he was wrong and Mel was right. He could never do that, he would have to eat crow. It doesn't matter what Obama does re Israel, Dershowitz to avoid admitting he was wrong on Obama will continue to go after the spear carriers and easy targets, like the J Street kapos.
You've hit the nail on the head in your later Boston post:
"I wonder whether it would matter to these people if they were in missile range like we are. Or perhaps, they are so enamored of their own rhetoric that they are simply suicidal."
This is about where I see the left leaning 80% of the American Jewish community. Reason is gone. They have isolated the Jewish organizations from mainstream America. They'd rather be in the cool crowd than in the alive crowd. Also, I do think they figure they know the right people to be exempt from the badness coming down the road.
Umm...this is the same Dershowitz who justifies ethnic cleansing aka "transfer" in his book as something not so bad, and claims that all Palestinians are responsible for the Holocaust, and so should be forced to leave their homes as a form of "affirmative action". I kid you not. Democratic? Liberal? Give me a break.
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