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I FOUND Dershowitz's letter most interesting. In his response, the noted civil libertarian challenged my accusation that he was an apologist for Israeli human rights abuses who defends the curtailment of civil liberties in the occupied territories.
In retrospect, the choice of the word "defend" was poor. But I stand by my accusation that Dershowitz is an inveterate apologist for Israel. My point was not whether Dershowitz approves of human rights violations, but whether he rationalizes them. And indeed he does.
So I did. I checked the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and the indexes of eight major newspapers for the period since the intifada began. I found precisely one article on the subject by Dershowitz--an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times that ran under the headline, "Given...
It is possible that I overlooked some of his other works. After all, the Reader's Guide doesn't index Penthouse, and the Harvard library system is notoriously weak on smut.
When the piece ran, the intifada was two months old and the death toll was 54. Dershowitz argued that--shootings and tear-gassings aside--the Israeli judiciary had "reacted magnificently." That's nice. If you're shot and killed, you can always sue.