Word: zealotous
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What bothers people like Larew is that I am also opposed to due process violations in Arab countries and within the P.L.O. and that I try to make my criticism of Israel in a comparative context. If that makes me a zealot, my zealotry is on behalf of fairness and equality...
...reality in constitutional America and the reality in embattled Israel. This recognition seems to elude all those who mindlessly swallow all criticism of Israel as obviously correct. A good example of this simplistic belief in the immorality of Israel appears in Larew's article itself. Larew accuses the "Zealot" who tore down an anti-Israel poster of "denial" of the facts determined by the "indisputable photographic record." There is no defending the student who tore down the poster, but pardon my naivete if I ask what fact is conveyed by a photograph devoid of any context? How do I know...
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...