Watch out my friends, Alan Dershowitz has put his oral
orifice in the bidirectional mode and has again spewed a massive load of
double-sided hypocrisy from the two sides. And you never know what he'll do next.
Get your own sense of the size of this development by
reading his latest article on the websites of both Algemeiner and the Gatestone
Institute. The article came under the title: “The Case for Kurdish
Independence,” and was published on October 2, 2017.
As indicated in the title, Dershowitz is making a case for
the Kurds to have a nation of their own. His approach rests heavily on the
notion that because the world is advocating for the Palestinians to have a
nation of their own, the world should also be advocating for the Kurds to have
a nation of their own. But the world has failed to do so, says Dershowitz, and
this proves that the world is hypocritical. Why is that? Because the Kurds have
as much right as the Palestinians to have a nation of their own, he asserts.
But is there not a lost principle of symmetry here? If the
world is hypocritical for advocating on behalf of the Palestinians but not the
Kurds, is it not equally true that Dershowitz is hypocritical for advocating on
behalf of the Kurds but not the Palestinians? And yet, he has been doing the
opposite for half a century; never relenting.
And what to make of the Israelis who are advocating for the
Kurds while doing worse than neglect considering the rights of Palestinians?
Indeed, whereas the Kurds are enjoying a degree of autonomy in a federated
association with an independent Iraq
– thus making them as independent as any Iraqi if not more – the Israelis are
occupying Palestine .
This denies the Palestinian people their independence, turning them into
nothing more than the oppressed subjects of an Israeli colony.
There are many questions to answer on this front but you do
not see Dershowitz answer any of them openly. This can only mean that his muted
answer goes something like this: Ask me no question and I'll tell you no lie.
Yes, that's what he means to convey, using his usually twisted arguments. And
when you come right down to it, you find that Dershowitz is accusing others of
hypocrisy to create the kind of noise that shields his own hypocrisy and that
of Israel .
Even though he stated that the Palestinian case and the
Kurdish case have equal merit, Dershowitz went on to make a feeble attempt to
show differences between the two. It seemed for a moment that he was hoping the
readers will determine on their own that the Kurds had a better case than the
Palestinians. But his attempt fell flat and yet, he did not delete it from the
article before sending the work for publication. Why did he do that?
Perhaps he made the attempt knowing that it will fail so as
to cement the notion the two cases have equal merit and leave it at that. But
what's the reason for this? It's that Dershowitz wanted to create enough
confusion to hide the fact there are differences between the two, and that the
Palestinians have a better case.
In fact, the case for the Kurds is similar to that of Catalonia whose population wanted to separate from Spain . What
happened next was that Spain
put an end to the movement using overwhelming force. The Kurdish case is also
similar to that of the would-be Nation of Islam or California
that threaten at times to separate from the Union .
Think of what would happen in America
if such ideas start to gain traction, and then think of Kurdistan .
In contrast, the case for Palestine rests on the fact that people are
being pushed off the land where they lived since the beginning of time. Those
pushing them are armed beastly kind of thugs who come from around the world,
and have nothing in common with the place they say is theirs. Theirs? How is
that? It is theirs, they say – get this now – because God gave it to them.
This is ethnic cleansing; the most hideous crime ever
committed against humanity. In fact, Palestine
is the only place where it is practiced, never to have happened in the Americas or Australia
or Rhodesia or South Africa .
In fact, the nature and level of savagery inflicted on the
Palestinians is so uniquely Jewish, it is the result of a religion that allows
the Jews to grab what belongs to others, slaughter them or push them away, and
claim they are doing God's work.