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In an August 12/13, 2006 CounterPunch article headlined, "Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination," Norman Finkelstein railed against his "apologetics on behalf of his Holy State....justify(ing) each and all of Israel's egregious violations of international law, (and using) the 'war on terrorism' as a springboard for a full frontal assault on this body of law."
In other words, binding international laws apply to other nations, not America and Israel, free to reign terror against targeted foes. Representing himself "in the media as a liberal and civil libertarian, (his far right) range of historical reference is pretty much limited to the Bible and Israel, and it is plainly not the Bible that is uppermost in his mind." Moreover, "if there's just (a) 'five percent likelihood' that Israel might face a compelling threat in 'ten years,' it has the right to attack now," including against allies believed potential future threats.
"After all the hard-won gains of civilization," said Finkelstein, " who would want to live in a world that once again legally sanctioned torture, collective punishment, assassinations and mass murder? As Dershowitz descends into barbarism, (it's hoped) that few seem inclined to join him."
Law Professor Francis Boyle called five Harvard law professors notorious for supporting lawlessness. Dershowitz made the list, Boyle calling him an:
"infamous self-incriminating war criminal. (He) publicly acknowledged being a member of a Mossad Committee for approving the murder and assassination of Palestinians, which violates the Geneva Conventions and is thus a grave war crime."
Moreover, he supports Guantanamo's "Kangaroo (Military Commission) Court System" despite all human rights organizations and legitimate figures denouncing it. Harvard's infamous five, including Dershowitz:
"....are no longer fit to educate lawyers, Members of the Bar, and Officers of the Court. They are a sick joke and a demented fraud....Harvard is to Law School as Torture is to Law." Its faculty and deans "torture the law. Do not send your children or students to Harvard Law School (or allow them in Dershowitz's classes) where they will grow up to become racist war criminals. Harvard Law School is a Neo-Con cesspool....for the most part its Faculty and Deans have always been viscerally bigoted and racist against Muslims/Arabs/Asians and other People of Color since at least" 1971 when Boyle attended.
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