Word: zealotism
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Larew then goes on to attack Professer Dershowitz for intellectual inconsistancy. I'm not sure of the exact laws, but this highly respected "Zealot" might be able to sue Larew for libel. I have been following Dershowitz's articles and speeches since the start of the intifada, and I have never seen him defend the curtailment of civil liberties in Israel. In a recent speech to AIPAC, he stated the following...
Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz is not a "Zealot," but a realist when he says that curtailment of civil rights on the West Bank was unavoidable. That is what military occupation means. It was thrust on Israel in 1967, confirmed in 1973 by another all-out Arab war that nearly destroyed Israel and has been confirmed ever since...
Year-long detainment without trial? No due process? No big problem for Dershowitz, who defends such tactics as necessary to protect the Jewish state. This intellectual inconsistency doesn't trouble him because he's a Zealot...
Besides, I was a fair-weather fan more than a political zealot. I lived on the illusion that the Redskins gave equal time to all political persuasions and would invite Ted Kennedy to speak very soon...
...when Tehran Radio announced early this week that the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's revolutionary zealot, was dead at 89, millions of his countrymen mourned the loss. They did so even though the movement he led plunged them into a devastating war with Iraq and left a legacy of turbulence at home and terrorism abroad. To his people, the patriarch with the baleful dark eyes and white beard had been the heart and sword of their revolution, the icon of implacable opposition -- first to the dictatorship of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and then to the U.S., which the Ayatullah relentlessly...