Case for Israel?, Prof. Finkelstein vs. Dershowitz
Professor Alan Dershowitz, the "watch dog of Israel", wrote a book called Case for Israel. Lets see what happens when it is critisized by professor Norman Finkelstein:
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- UN Resolution 242: Lord WHO?
Internal investigations of the IDF
v.
human rights organizations
- "the Extremist" and his evidence
"the kind of" two-state settlement
- the debate on UN 242:
3 volumes
v.
1 Orlando Sentinel editorial from yr. 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKaX3EkrkII
Finkelstein: "Mr. Dershowitz says I'm on the extreme end and he's on the mainstream [...] he [Dershowitz] cited a hoax. I cite the scholarly sources. Mr. Dershowitz says he doesnt agree with the human rights organisations [...] I quote Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International... I quote the mainstream sources, the mainstream numbers, he quotes internal investigations of the IDF and hoaxes. But I'm the "extremist"... but I'm the extremist... but I'm the extremist..."
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- high school syllabus
& sonypictures.com
-- serious sources?
- Dershowitz:
"George Orwell's turnspeak"
v.
Orwell's "newspeak"
See also: Harvard undergrad sacked for pulling a Dersh
(The Harvard Crimson: "Crimson Cuts Columnist for Lifting Material," 10.27.2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JtVPMEtm9I
Finkelstein: "Listen to this source, this is a shcolar [...] Sony Pictures: www.sonypictures.com, that's page 257, footnote 21. A Sony Picture."
Finkelstein: "Number 2 [...] a high school syllabus. Is that serious? Is that a serious source? [...] A sony picture and a highschool curriculum. [...] Very serious sources mr. Dershowitz."
Finkelstein: "In Peters' book [...] She coins a phrase, the phrase is turnspeak. And she says"
Dershowitz: "And she borrows it from... from... from a...."
Finkelstein: "No, sir I'm sorry... She coins the phrase turnspeak... You see you dont know what you're talking about and that's pretty terrible. She coins the phrase turnspeak and she says she's using it as a play of George Orwell, which - as all listeners know - used the phrase newspeak. And she coined her own phrase, turnspeak. [...] You see he [Dershowitz] got so confused in his borrowings of Peters' [...] that he used on two occasions the phrase: "George Orwell's turnspeak". Turnspeak isnt Orwell."
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.p...g=11&ar=678
I'd say: NO CASE FOR ISRAEL.
