“Israel's Actions Were Entirely Lawful” The above is the title of an article written by the Likudnik figure Alan Dershowitz, published in an equally Likudnik website in support of the Israeli war criminals' murder of the peace activists in the high seas. Dershowitz is a prominent American lawyer and law professor at Harvard University. He is a contemptible extremist who often defends the occupation, murder, destruction and the theft of the homes of the Palestinians, rendering him a primary accomplice in these crimes. However, Dershowitz and his ilk are doing nothing but extending the plight of the Israelis and the Palestinians by cheering for the extremism of the Likud/Shas/Yizrael Beiteinu gang. Therefore, these individuals are responsible for the death of more Israelis and Palestinians in the ongoing conflict. Dershowitz's law credentials are of a high calibre. Yet, it is his extremism that I condemn. He actually had the audacity to defend piracy whose only other stronghold today is Somalia, in a country that has succeeded the old South Africa with its' apartheid regime and racism, and that will probably meet the same fate. In the USA Today, Professor George Bisharat, another American law professor, wrote an article entitled ‘Israeli raid 'illegal', its acts 'unconscionable''. I did not read Dershowitz's article, because I know the extent of his extremism, as I did not read Bisharat's article, because its title is sufficiently adequate, and it mirrors my own opinion. Subsequent to the Israeli act of piracy, the press material I had collected contained contradictory views, and despite the clear nature of the crime and the ensuing worldwide condemnation, there were many opinions like Dershowitz's. But perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu, the professional impostor, outdid every one when he said that the Israeli soldiers defended their lives with incomparable restraint (I swear to God this is what he said, literally). He spoke to the wounded soldiers, but of course, he did not speak to the nine martyrs who died at the hands of the neo-Nazis in Israel, killed by ‘restraint'. The website that published Dershowitz's vulgar article issued on the next day an article entitled “Jerusalem is not a settlement”, written by yet another Likudnik. Jerusalem is indeed not a settlement. It is the capital of Palestine, while all of Israel is an illegal settlement. In contrast with the well-established Arab presence in Jerusalem, which dates back to before the Islamic era, the alleged Jewish presence there is based on biblical myths, and there are no traces for the Jews or their prophets in the sacred city, or in any other place in Palestine, Egypt and even Iraq. Instead, there were small Jewish tribes all over the Middle East, but not kingdoms or prophets, and only lies and fraud against God and humanity. I condemn Israel from its mouth, as its ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, rejected an international probe into the raid on the peace flotilla, which is an implicit recognition of culpability. I pause here to remind the reader, as I always do, that the extremist Likudnik warmongers who defend Israeli racism are a minority among the Jews around the world, especially in the United States. In truth, a majority of 78 percent of American Jews voted for Barack Obama, the highest possible proportion in any American ethnic group. In fact, the extremists attacks are not restricted to the Palestinians or the Arabs and Muslims alone, but they also encompass the pro-peace Jews. The latter are automatically accused of being self-hating Jews or anti-Semites, and the attacks I read against peace advocates such as Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky are as vulgar as the those against Muslims, if not worse. The Likudniks attacked President Obama, and concluded that he stood against Israel in the Security Council, although the Americans worked hard to soften the tone of the resolution that was issued later. I have in front of me an article entitled “Obama using flotilla fiasco to blackmail Israel?” and another article claiming that Obama is “Hanging Israel Out to Dry”, meaning that he forsook Israel on its own. However, the peace activists accused Obama on the other hand of bias towards Israel in the face of murder and the blockade, and of encouraging the Jewish state to commit more. I will let the reader decide, which of the two opinions is more accurate. The Israeli newspapers, with the exception of Haaretz, took the government's lies at face value, and claimed that the peace activists had firearms in their possession. They also accepted, without contest, the video footage distributed by the government of Netanyahu, and did not ask where the phones and the cameras belonging to the peace activists were, when these had been confiscated by the Israeli attackers, who must have destroyed all incriminating evidence against them contained in those cameras. They also stole the passports of those on board the Freedom Flotilla, and perhaps we will soon hear that they have been used in forgeries in the course of some future murder, as happened in Dubai. In the beginning, the entire American media treated the peace flotilla incident in the same manner as the Israeli press did, and then it decided to ignore it because of the impossibility of defending the Israeli crime. I have many specific details that will not fit in this column. Suffice to say, my daughter returned to London after a two-day work trip in New York when the crisis was still raging, and she told me that she saw nothing in the newspapers and the televisions there about the murder of the peace activists, and that the entire focus was on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But in my opinion, the blood on the hands is much worse than an oil spill. [email protected]
