Word: dershowitz
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...Though Dershowitz never actually called for targeted killings, he devoted much of his article to defending Israel’s assassination of the Black September attackers and arguing that attempting to arrest them would not have been successful. He pointed out that several nations had freed hijackers—instead of extraditing them to Israel or the U.S.—in the years before the attacks, and that Germany released the surviving Black September terrorists less than two months after Munich...
...German decision to free these killers to kill again that strengthened [former Israeli Prime Minister] Golda Meir’s resolve to take steps necessary to protect her citizens,” Dershowitz wrote...
...before his piece appeared in the Globe, Dershowitz wrote a similar op-ed in The Baltimore Sun in which he made the same arguments regarding “the cycle of violence” and why having European countries arrest and extradite the terrorists would not have been successful. In the Sun piece, however, Dershowitz also attacked what he saw as the film’s “one-sided political view” and insinuated that the film’s screenwriter opposes Israel’s existence...
...January 23 news article "HLS Profs Weigh in on Targeted Killings" stated that a 2002 book by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz "drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances." While critics of Dershowitz have made those claims, the article should have noted that Dershowitz' book, "Why Terrorism Works," does not recommend torture. And Dershowitz has stated publicly, including in The Scottsman newspaper in May 2004, that he is "personally opposed to torture...
This issue is sufficiently nuanced as to require further clarification. In the 2002 book, Dershowitz considers a scenario in which a democratic government captures a terrorist who "knows or probably knows the location of a number of bombs...set to go off within the next twenty-four hours." Dershowitz wrote that the government could "forgo any use of torture and simply allow the preventable terrorist act to occur." But he acknowledged that such an approach would provoke "a great outcry in any democracy," and that in such a scenario, the United States probably would find a way to facilitate...