Apparently, Dershowitz hasn't seen repeated polls showing a much higher levels of support for Israel among Pubbies as opposed to 'Rats. Nor did he see the presidential vote last year among American Jews abroad in Israel (about 75-25 for McCain). Furthermore, Pelosi is about the last person he should be quoting on the subject, considering her notorious junket to Syria last year to hobnob with Assad and his minions.
Dershowitz is simply blinded to reality by his addiction to a party whose current leader an Arabist president with connections to Islam, communism, and antisemitism in his background.
“Dershowitz is simply blinded to reality”
he’s backpedaling.
He's not blinded. He's an political operative. Israel isn't at the top of his list of political issues. I appreciate his advocacy for Israel, he's a clear thinker, and an talented advocate. Be happy The One didn't appoint Alan or a Larry Tribe to the Court, they'd change minds. But he's a political advocate at heart. An effective critic of Jimmy "watch that bunny" Carter, he'd be defending him were Carter in office today. And the idea that Jews can live here, but not there, and there, and there, is perfectly acceptable to Alan.
I was astonished by Alan's article in which he concluded that, despite expressed concerns, there wasn't really a problem about Obama's attitude to Israel because all he was doing was putting pressure on Israel over the settlements which most American Jews didn't support anyway. This spectacularly failed to acknowledge the evidence of the hostility Obama is displaying towards Israel at the very moment when Israel is facing an enemy bent upon genocide.