Thursday, 9 July 2009

Thursday, 9th July 2009

He still doesn't get it

3:19pm


My criticisms here of the piece Alan Dershowitz wrote in the Wall Street Journal appear to be making some waves across the pond. Dershowitz has now written a lengthy defence of himself against me here. I had said that he had failed to address the most egregious aspects of Obama’s extreme hostility towards Israel, and that this was undoubtedly because, like most American Jews, he was incapable of admitting that a Democratic President could be so vicious towards it.

In his reply, Dershowitz not only shows that he still doesn’t ‘get it’ but also that he doesn’t appear to have understood what I wrote. Dershowitz says:

Israel must not be turned into a ‘wedge issue’ in America as it is in Britain and Europe, where it has become a target of virulent hatred for the Left while...

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