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Dershowitz Calls Jimmy Carter "Coward, Hypocrite, Bully"
Associated Press ^ | January 12, 2007

Posted on 01/12/2007 12:44:44 PM PST by presidio9

Harvard law professor and lawyer Alan Dershowitz has labeled former President Jimmy Carter a coward for refusing to debate him over Carter's controversial new book.

Carter will visit Brandeis University to discuss his book on Palestine but won't debate academic Dershowitz as originally proposed.

Will You Read Book?

"It's the height of cowardice," said Dershowitz. "He released this book saying he wanted to spark a debate and now he refuses to do just that."

In an opinion piece in the Boston Globe Dershowitz also called Carter a "hypocrite" for telling Brandies officials he would not debate Dershowitz.

He also wrote, "Jimmy Carter isn't brave for beating up on Israel. He's a bully."

A Carter spokeswoman and university officials say Carter will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions for 45 minutes during the visit, tentatively scheduled for January 23.

Some students and faculty had objected when the speaking invitation to Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, suggested the debate with Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor who has disparaged the book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." They said Carter should be invited to campus without conditions.

Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said Carter looks forward to the opportunity to having a dialogue with everyone at Brandeis. She said Carter has set no conditions and would answer as many questions as possible.

Congileo said the visit to the campus at the Waltham, Massachusetts campus of Brandeis will be Carter's first to a university to discuss the book.

Brandeis is a nonsectarian university founded by the American Jewish community. About half its students are Jewish.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Israel; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; jimmycartertraitor; peanutbrain; worstexpresident
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To: Quix; SJackson
everyone in the audience should have a yellow star of david stitched to their sleeves

That's a wonderful idea. Somebody on this list mush know somebody who goes to Brandeis.

BTW, Pace University did a similiar star of David holocaust memorial last year, but people also had the option of wearing pink triangles, because being gay is the same thing as being Jewish, right?

21 posted on 01/12/2007 1:08:13 PM PST by presidio9 (It's "news" that New Jersey smells bad?)
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To: Always Right
Former President James Carter has the distinguished non-honor of being the weakest president of modern times, perhaps the weakest of all.

It should be of no surprise that Weakling Carter snivels away from a debate on a subject, even though he (allegedly) "wrote the book".

Also, even though Mister Dershowitz says a few things with which I coincidentally agree, overall he is no less of a rodent in my eyes.

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22 posted on 01/12/2007 1:10:12 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Kenton
Personally, I'm waiting for the, (inevitable), David Beckham/Posh Spice divorce.....oughtta be real juicy and messy


23 posted on 01/12/2007 1:10:13 PM PST by Clifford The Big Red Dog (Woof!)
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To: Ouderkirk
Palestine: No Peace without Apartheid

Ironically "Palestine", like most of the Arab world, is a classic example of apartheid. They opress Christians and don't allow Jews at all. A condition of turning Gaza over to a million plus Muslims, 8,000 Jews had to be expelled, along with 10% of Gaza's GDP, to satisfy their desire for religious purity.

24 posted on 01/12/2007 1:11:24 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: presidio9

What's the matter with me...I've been agreement with Dershowitz on at least two occasions, including this, in the last year.


25 posted on 01/12/2007 1:11:46 PM PST by Busywhiskers (Strength and honor.)
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To: presidio9

Under Peanutbrain, the "misery index", defined as the sum of the unemployment rate and the rate of inflation, was over 21%. The socialist "ideas" of the current DemoSocialist "leaders" in Congress would return us to mortgage rates in the teens, high unemployment, high inflation, and a severely weakened national defense, replicating the Carter Years.


27 posted on 01/12/2007 1:16:08 PM PST by pleikumud
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To: presidio9
"coward,hypocrite, bully"

No he isn't. He is an idiot. He does not have the brains to be any of the above.
28 posted on 01/12/2007 1:20:07 PM PST by bilhosty (to hell with ABCNNBCBS)
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To: presidio9

"It's the height of cowardice," said Dershowitz. "He released this book saying he wanted to spark a debate and now he refuses to do just that."

And in a related story, water is found to be wet.........


29 posted on 01/12/2007 1:21:16 PM PST by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: presidio9

"Coward, hypocrite, bully", sounds like the character of the typical Democrat


30 posted on 01/12/2007 1:21:30 PM PST by quadrant
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To: Kenton

Yep, I love that 'The Donald' took shim on. Finally shim stepped on some rather big toes and Trump didn't let shim get away with it.


31 posted on 01/12/2007 1:22:42 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Quix
THINK everyone in the audience should have a yellow star of david stitched to their sleeves or pasted on their foreheads.

Wouldn't have the desired effect. Most important is the selection of the audience, and particularly the questioners. I wouldn't assume he'll get anything other that softballs, critical questions could come from the uninformed. Carter knows how to manage a Q&A session.

32 posted on 01/12/2007 1:22:53 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Busywhiskers
I disagree with him on gun control, but agree with him that the 2nd amendment is a personal, not collective (militia) right.

I disagree with him on his pro-choice stance, but I agree with him that Roe was an awful decision.

His positions tend to be well thought out.

33 posted on 01/12/2007 1:25:45 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Always Right
Aw heck...Dershowitz is being way too nice.

Most of us were using far worse (and accurate) terms for this idiot when he was mistakenly elected president.

34 posted on 01/12/2007 1:27:16 PM PST by Logic n' Reason (Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin')
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To: presidio9

I will he would tell us what he really thinks


35 posted on 01/12/2007 1:33:09 PM PST by clamper1797 (Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
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To: clamper1797

will = wish


36 posted on 01/12/2007 1:33:38 PM PST by clamper1797 (Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
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To: presidio9

Dersh tells it like it is!!!


37 posted on 01/12/2007 1:37:37 PM PST by dennisw (Don't let your past become your future -- Georges Gurdjieff)
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To: Logic n' Reason
I live in an agriculture area of S.E. Missouri. I remember Carter was shown on TV walking through his peanut farm, kicked a clod of dirt and the farmers swooned.

Of course most were democrats.

38 posted on 01/12/2007 1:42:13 PM PST by BARLF
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To: presidio9
Big Media is more interested in Rosie vs Trump.
39 posted on 01/12/2007 1:50:38 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: presidio9

Add to that doddering, senile old fool.


40 posted on 01/12/2007 2:02:10 PM PST by greccogirl
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