You made us kill your children
On CNN Larry King Live…
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: “We can forgive you for killing our children but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children”
He attributes that to Golda Meir, but clearly he thinks that is the proper logic of Israel’s destruction of Lebanon with the inherited hyperpower of the United States and boat loads of the explosives the US rushes to supply.
Last fall, I heard Dershowitz say, “I just love targeted assassinations.”
And look here. This is the result when Israel tries “not to kill civilians”.
Zogby had it just about right in this little sideshow:
JAMES ZOGBY: …the point you were making was not dissimilar to the point that terrorists always make and that is that in a war there are no civilians. Everyone on the enemy side is culpable.
Dershowitz is a toxic man.
August 9th, 2006 at 18:24
What the bloody hell is Alan Dershowitz up to? I am stunned frankly that, that man, so-called tenured Harvard professor, is permitted to comment on the issues he does. He is an out-and-out racist and bigot - I cannot believe that he would condone Golda Meir’s callous discourse, utterly stunned! Can’t a real professor like Norman Finklestein just be sat in the same room as this complete ass, on a live show, and just demolish him point by point…
August 10th, 2006 at 18:45
Toxic is the word for Dershowitz,
There are others.
Legal shill to the rich and powerful and exploiter of his students are others.
Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust
August 11th, 2006 at 08:26
They can’t forgive people for “making them kill children” how perverse and degenerate of a statement that is, reminds me of while somebody is applying a beating saying “this is going to hurt me, more than you”. These are statements of pathological killers, that try to remove the suffering of the people they are torturing, to justyfy their own perverse bloodlust. Unfortunately Israeli foreign policy is that of murder, torture and misery. At least some Israeli soldiers have the humanity to refuse to fight, in this immoral war.
August 11th, 2006 at 20:03
My father used to say as much as his heavy hand of love descended upon me…So very very Victorian!!
Perhaps the analogy is fitting as regards Israel. I mean they seem to exist in a pre Geneva Conventions, HUman Rights, doctrine age when much the same vile punitive action they are demonstrating now was meted out to the Jewish diaspora in Europe.
August 14th, 2006 at 04:56
Re: Geneva Conventions
I think Norman Finkelstein says it all in the piece posted on Counterpunch this weekend.
August 14th, 2006 at 19:31
Just read Finklestein’s piece, brilliant and scholarly as usual, not to mention the interspersed helpings of dry wit. I just love that “continuumm of civilianity”, God it’s so 19th Century British Imperialism. Lofty categories based on a preconceived notion of human worth - only applied to Others of course - while it is understood that such categories pertaining humanity and international do not apply to us (Israel) becaise of our, well, special status.
August 14th, 2006 at 19:32
Sorry, rushed my comment and missed the errors, again…
August 19th, 2006 at 23:08
Everything I second-hand source I read depicted Norman Finkelstein as a lunatic. Everything first hand I’ve read BY Finkelstein suggests he is measured and admirable. Plus, as many have noted before me, his humor is as dry as cork.
But a word about his guts. Man, I hate to think of what abuse he must be taking from the zealots. People saying far milder things have been marginalized— for good. The Kach crowd probably has a rocket with his name on it.
The phrase has been cheapened over the years, but NF is a real profile in courage.
August 20th, 2006 at 15:05
Indeed. Finkelstein in my opinion is among the sanest and most moral writers.